Yahoo Sports · Dec 10, 2022
Grant Wahl was an original
On April 3, 2004, the center of the American sports world was San Antonio, Texas, where Duke and Connecticut were about to play in the Final Four.
Grant Wahl was there, working as a national college basketball writer for Sports Illustrated. Yet a game between two historic teams, featuring legendary coaches and future NBA players, didn’t excite him too much. He kept saying he wished he was covering the then-fledgling Major League Soccer, where a 14-year-old named Freddie Adu was about to make his career debut.