No. 84: BOB LANIER / When the mouse coulda & shoulda roared in March. It would have been the greatest feat in NCAA history (not to mention, certifiably, the biggest feet)

Fond memories of Bob Lanier and St Bonaventure, a tiny Catholic school that seemed destined for the 1970 national championship game and a shot at ending UCLA's title run

The “Actual Size!” spread in Esquire’s October 1974 issue featured photos to scale of famous athletes various appendages—Bob Lanier’s sneaker measured 15 full inches (used my tape measure) before the heel ran off the page. Oh, and for scale, that hand above isn’t mine, but rather Bill Walton’s.

MY FAVOURITE TWO DAYS on the sports calendar are upon us: the first round of the NCAA hoops tournament, when the minnows have their chance to feast on the big fish. The Super Bowl, the World Series and the Stanley Cup were big deals, I guess, but if I had my druthers, I’d rather watch year-old replays of the splendidly named Peacocks of St Peter’s, a rag-tag No. 15 seed from Jersey City, letting the air out of John Calipari and his No. 2 one-and-dones from Kentucky. According to available information, the enrollment at St Peter’s numbers around 2,800 undergrad and graduate students, roughly the number of Wildcats’ season-ticket holders who have likenesses of Adolph Rupp tattooed on their asse…