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Who's the best "Jason" in sports right now?

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Mr. Triple Double.

BEST "JASON" IN SPORTS? WE'LL GO WITH JASON KIDD, EVEN THOUGH HE IS A LIL' OLDER THESE DAYS

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If you have no idea why we suddenly decided to rank players with the first name Jason, consider: Friday.The.13th. Jason Voorhees? (He has a fairly detailed Wiki, oddly, considering he's a fictional evil character.) As a side note, apparently IGN once ranked those movies as the 7th best movie franchise of all-time. Odd. Anyway, Jason time! (There are a lot of people we forgot, like Jason Richardson and Jason Terry. You can holla at us if you want.)

TOP 5
RANK (YESTERDAY)		WHAT	WHY
	1 (14)	JASON KIDD	Yea, he's older than he once was. And yea, he doesn't have any rings and a dude like, say, Tony Parker has three. We ain't rankin' "Tonys" though. This guy has more triple-doubles than most people have socks.
	2 (410)	JASON CAMPBELL	We'd like to see him (and the Skins as a whole) be more consistent, but have you ever watched this?
	3 (21)	JASON TAYLOR	Another older dude, and one currently without a team. He's an absolute menace if you're a QB, though, and also on da dance floor. He once did a blog for us, which is fun.
	4 (127)	JASON BAY	Le sigh: just another guy who keeps smoking doubles all over the field after they leave the Pirates.
	5 (899)	JASON VARITEK	Cue the peanut gallery: "ESPN is all homers for the Red Sox!" Naw. Jason Varitek is legitimately one of the best team leaders in all of sports in the last two decades. Disagree? Holla. There are certain casinos in Las Vegas where you can already place bets on when Varitek wins his first World Series as a manager. OK, that's a lie.

HONORABLE MENTION
RANK (YESTERDAY)		WHAT	WHY
	18 (144)	JASON SPEZZA	This whole illegal stick thing aside, he's pretty good. Again, like with Campbell, we really wish the Senators would just get over the proverbial hump. You should read this: hockey players are crazy, yo!
	28 (701)	JASON ELAM	People always diss the kickers, ya know? It was either Elam or fellow Jason (Hanson) here. They're both pretty skilled at booting balls through yellow sticks about 120 feet away. Wow, when you say it that way, it's a pretty specific skill set, no?

RISING AND FALLING
MOVEMENT		WHAT
		JASON SMITH (He's apparently a manchild.)
		JASON WITTEN (Great talent, but did his friendship with Romo doom the Boys?)

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