September 12, 2005 Issue 127
	Michael Jordan Unretires Yet Again, Leads North Carolina to National Championship Originally posted 4/5/2005 Above: North Carolina's Michael Jordan fights for position with Illinois guard Dee Brown ST. LOUIS - The legendary Michael Jordan shocked basketball fans nationwide yet again Monday night when, two years after his last NBA game, he came out of retirement yet again to provide one last breathtaking exclamation point to a once-in-a-lifetime career -- yet again -- leading North Carolina to the NCAA men's basketball title with a 75-70 victory over Illinois. "I knew I had one more run in me," Jordan said after leading the Tar Heels to the national title for the second time, the first coming in 1982 when Jordan was a freshman at UNC. "Since I only played three years of college ball, the NCAA was nice enough to let me back in for tonight's game." "I give Illinois a lot of credit," said North Carolina head coach Roy Williams, who finally one the first national title of his illustrious coaching career after several fruitless trips to the Final Four. "They're a great team. I just think that we wanted it a little more. Plus, we had Michael freaking Jordan. So there's that." "I really felt it was important to come back and help out the school," Jordan said. "More importantly, I realized that the NCAA championship was the only thing in my life I've ever only won one of. I've got six NBA titles, two Olympic gold medals, but I've only got one NCAA title, and I can't live with that. One NCAA title? Who am I, Patrick Ewing?" "I'm not sure I entirely understand exactly why North Carolina was allowed to have Michael Jordan on their team," said Illinois head coach Bruce Weber, whose team had lost only once this season prior to the championship game. "I don't want to sound like I'm complaining or anything, but, it seems a little bit fishy to me. I mean, I kind of thought that the whole point was that the tournament was for people who are in college now. If I'd have known I could have gone out and gotten, say, Kendall Gill and Nick Anderson to come back and play for us tonight, don't you think I would have?" "I'm just glad I could add to my legacy," Jordan said. "Maybe now people will remember this more so than the gambling, infidelity and gimping around the floor while the Wizards missed the playoffs."
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