28 October, 2007

Hey Chris, can I call you Can-Je from now on?


The New York Times Play magazine ran a cover feature on Steve Nash today. After reading the article, I learned that Nash is taller than I expected (and still look like a midget standing next to Yao Ming) and that Nash is pretty much the same age as Chris. I also found this:
“Steve Nash” the self-effacing Canadian long shot whose life story had been puréed into an edifying fable about Chasing Your Dreams and Working Hard and Always Giving Back, and in some parts of his home country had been polished to such a saintly sheen that people called him Can-Je, short for “Canadian Jesus.”
Urm ... is this true. I mean, who exactly calls him Can-Je? Like, which of his junior high friends duped Chip Brown into including it in the article?!

[Source: NYT]