Written by Joe Tetreault
| 26 January 2011
DEFINING COOL
GQ's list of coolest athletes ever (evah?) is fairly stellar, but one snub scuttles it in my mind. Where's Paul Newman? We get Ted Turner, who is a Yachtsman, so they say, and an owner, in years past, but as an athlete? I'll grant you, racers are not on the same par as Jim Thorpe type athletes, but GQ does not have that defense. They gave us Mario Andretti so there is not anti-auto racing bias. But to leave out Paul Newman, who was for a spell of time the coolest man on the planet, and who was an avid and competitive racer is a glaring omission.
