Join The Post's Tony Kornheiser and Mike Wilbon on Friday, May 4 for more lively sports chat. At this point Mario Lemieux is way ahead of the game. He's even ahead of where he was when he left the game. When he left the game, he was scoring two points a game. Now he's scoring three.
Many athletes try to come back from retirement.
Especially when there's a long gap between at-bats. Mark Spitz tried to come back to Olympic swimming 20 years after Munich, and was no longer competitive. Jim Palmer, Bjorn Borg, Sugar Ray Leonard, Magic Johnson and Muhammad Ali tried to come back after years away, and all failed crashingly. This isn't about coming back from serious injury or from illness. This is about coming back from retirement.