ALL WORLD POWER RANKINGS

by Ted Bauer and Chris Sprow

With Interleague play commencing, we turn to crossover acts and thus, Kris Kristofferson is all up in your mechanism today!

Interleague play starts today! (Look at this video for a second and laugh. Now, keep reading.) To acknowledge the cross-league battles, we thought we'd dedicate the weekend-long version of "Power Rankings" to the best crossover acts in sports and entertainment. Ya know, ladies and dudes who mastered one field, then moved on to (uh, kindasorta) master another. Number one is pretty obvious, we think; as always, though, we're up for a spirited debate. Or nothing. Really, either can work.

TOP 5
RANK (YESTERDAY)		WHAT	WHY
	1 (8)	KRIS KRISTOFFERSON	This dude is flat out filthy. First off, he sings "Me and Bobby McGee" with Judy Collins! (He wrote it, too.) Secondly, his Wiki is longer than about 30 U.S. Presidents. He was in Blume in Love! He was a member of the Highwaymen! He collaborated on projects with Shel Silverstein, who single-handedly helped every American childhood seem special! Is there anything this dude can't do? P.S. Our boss calls him "the great American renaissance man." Ahead of Thomas Jefferson? "Way ahead." Uh, by the way: he was a Rhodes Scholar too.
	2 (231)	DAVID BOWIE	We're not into rankings (wait, what?), but BBC ranked Bowie the 29th most influential Brit of all-time. ALL-TIME! 29TH! Bear in mind: all the Beatles had individual slots on this list. Rolling Stone says he's the 39th most important rocker ever. Awesome. He was also in Just a Gigolo (ha!) and Twin Peaks, as a rogue FBI agent. If that's not range, what is?
	3 (11)	CHER	The girl won an Oscar (!!!) for Moonstruck and put herself squarely on the Hollywood map 20 years BEFORE she admitted to sleeping with Tom Cruise. That's gotta count for something. Oh, and this.
	4 (435)	DICK BUTKUS	People still list him ahead of Lawrence Taylor as the best LB of all-time and then there's this. Truly epic. He also filled in ably on Hang Time when Reggie Theus bowed out. Whatever happened to the girl from Hang Time, by the way? Oh, she married a dude from the show. Weird.
	5 (NR)	BOB UECKER	Visual proof: Major League. Beer commercials. WrestleMania IV. Did Carson. Career stats weren't shabby either. Dude can do it all!

HONORABLE MENTION
RANK (YESTERDAY)		WHAT	WHY
	67 (182)	WILL SMITH	"In West Philadelphia, born and raised…" to commanding 20 large per movie. Yea. He's doing well for himself.
	187 (1 in our hearts)	MADONNA	If you were a (straight) male born between 1976 and 1990 and haven't seen the candle wax part of Body of Evidence yet, you're probably not a human.

RISING AND FALLING
MOVEMENT		WHAT
		LUDACRIS
		DAN MARINO

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