If you care at all about college hoops, then you are all over the Davidson story.
Which makes all the more interesting the opening of a recent Associated Press report by Nancy Armour about the omnipresent baby-faced gunner who is leading that team in its quest for the glass slipper. (Click here for one video sample of what Curry is up to.)
On the red trim at the bottom of his shoes, Stephen Curry has written in black marker, "I can do all things."
Yes, yes he can.
And because of him, Davidson is marching on.
Curry has, of course, scored 103 points in Davidson's three NCAA tournament games, so he has every reason to be feeling good about his abilities at the moment.
Which raises the question that the AP apparently didn't think to ask: Is this "I can do all things" statement a sign of ego or humility?
You see, Curry comes from a very strong Christian home and graduated from Charlotte Christian School. In fact, his brother Seth -- another star at Charlotte Christian -- is headed to yet another small religious college in the Southeast. That would be Liberty University (often known as Jerry Falwell U).
So it is safe to say that this phrase on the bottom of Stephen Curry's sneaker is a reference to a verse in the New Testament, Philippians 4:13, which states:
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
So the question that some readers are asking is this: Who edited out the second half of the quote? If Curry shortened the verse, which seems likely, it is safe to say that he knows the rest of the verse and had a reason for writing this phrase on his, well, sole. Or maybe he did find a way to write the whole verse. We don't know.
We also do notknow if the reporter realized that this was a statement of faith, not ego. The question, of course, is whether the reporter bothered to ask: "Why did you write those words on the bottom of your shoe?"
It seems like a rather basic question, if you are going to make this the lede of the story.