Babe Ruth in New York. Joe Montana in San Francisco. Michael Jordan in Chicago. Sometimes the sports gods manage to find the most natural habitat for a player. And now they've gone and aced another assignment: Dennis Rodman in Los Angeles.
"Every time he steps onto the court, it'll be like an audition," said one of his handlers last week after Rodman--who will star as a sort of black James Bond in a movie scheduled for release this summer--signed on to rescue the struggling Lakers.
Oh, what a week in L.A., where basketball's prodigal problem child took El Nino's spot on...