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Muhammed Ali started the trend of loud-mouthed sports stars that has since begat the likes of Dennis Rodman, Charles Barkley, and Mike Tyson. Low-life pukes who have some modicum of talent in their vapid professions, but whose value as humans is limited to making their owners money.

Not to mention jerks like John McEnroe, Tony Stewart, Bobby Knight, David Wells, Todd Bertuzzi, and John Daly.

Suffice it to say that before Muhammed Ali, sports stars were role models for children -- at least on the surface. Ali's bragging self-promotion put an end to that. After him, the more vain, the better.

Now that he is a drooling old fool, we're supposed to get all misty about his "contributions" to mankind. But nothing he can do will ever make up for the destruction of humility for which he was personally responsible.

Now he's got plenty to be humble about. And the previous poster was right: this man deserves our universal disgust, not a presidential award.