Filling out the resume

This week's top 10, Roy Williams Edition, dedicated to players and coaches who still haven't won the Big One:

- 10. Andy Reid/Donovan McNabb. Their window of opportunity gets smaller and smaller every year. Four trips to the NFC title game, only one Super Bowl appearance. They still aren't even as accomplished as the 1990s Buffalo Bills.

- 9. Ken Griffey Jr. At one time he was considered the best all-around player in the game, and before he started getting hurt more often than a gullible schoolgirl who believes she will be respected in the morning, he was thought to be a challenger to Hank Aaron's home run record.

Now all he's good for are annual "I'm healthier than I've ever been" stories in the spring and "I'll be back next year" stories every summer when he suffers yet another season-ending injury.

- 8. Bill Cowher. Four losses in the AFC Championship and another in the Super Bowl have tarnished his otherwise fine career. The loyalty shown to him by the Rooney family is an all-too rare a thing in sports.

- 7. Kobe Bryant, post-Shaq version. Bryant's career will always have a cloud over it as long as the Lakers founder and the Heat flourish. As great an individual player as he is, the early returns on Kobe's leadership skills are not good as the Lakers will miss the playoffs for the first time since 1993-94.

- 6. Marty Schottenheimer. The veteran coach served up a couple of memorable gag jobs while coaching the original Cleveland Browns, and never accomplished as much as he probably should have in Kansas City.

- 5. Dusty Baker. Nine years in San Francisco with the greatest player of the modern era* and only three postseason appearances, one trip to the World Series. The Cubs lured him to Chicago and he presided over one of the finer choke jobs before the Yankees collapsed against the Red Sox.

- 4. Nomar Garciaparra. How bad did it have to suck to be Nomar last October? Anointed as a savior in Boston a few years ago, the Sox go and win it after they trade him. Now he's with another "cursed" franchise, and his career is starting to look pretty empty.

- 3. Jerry Sloan. The dean of NBA coaches had two of the greatest players in basketball history at his disposal but never won a championship in two trips to the finals. Of course, Michael Jordan had a say in the matter.

- 2. Eddie Sutton. The Oklahoma State head man takes the place of Roy Williams as the college coach with the most wins and no title. Yet for some reason there isn't nearly as much angst over this as there was with Williams.

- 1. Barry Bonds*. As a Pirate, he did a vanishing act in the postseason. As a Giant, he did a vanishing act in the postseason, until the World Series run in 2002. For all his greatness*, his inability to lead a team to a championship is the biggest threat to his legacy. Though I suppose it's difficult to lead a team to anything when all your teammates hate you.

Andrew Hinkelman is a sports writer for The Daily Inter Lake. He can be reached at hink@dailyinterlake.com