Take that LeBron with your silly white headband that sits kind of cockeyed on your forehead, and your petulant ways.

Learn from a real star with legit humility and poise. Somebody who some had written off as having already peaked in his career and had fallen for a season on relatively hard times. But somebody who has always known how to wear a headband.

Roger Federer just won the French Open. It’s his first win at Roland Garros on clay, if you’re not aware. It completes a career slam for him. He’s previously won grand slams at Melbourne (that would be Australia), Wimbledon (you know, strawberries and cream in merrie ol’ England where the players must still wear all white) and what I still like to refer to as Forest Hills (which would be the US Open).

And the W ties Pete Sampras at 14 grand slam wins, the most by any player ever in any era. (Though, truth be told, Rod Laver was shafted by bad timing. His career straddled the era of strictly amateur and play for pay and he surely would have won more slams had he been given the chance.)

Which is not to diminish what Federer (and Sampras) have done.

Federer — like Pete Sampras before him — has quietly established himself as one of the world’s great athletes. And done so without hype, hyperbole, scandal or a date with Paris Hilton.

Kudos to Roger Federer. Champion. As good as it gets. On hardcourt. Or grass. Or, now, clay.

– Seedy K