The Young Wizard

For those of you who follow baseball, you're heard of the Wizard! The best short stop I've ever seen, Ozzie Smith. Well what you might not know about the Oz (he played the Wizard of Oz in a production of the Wizard of Oz I once saw, but that's not what I want to talk about right now) is that he had a son in my brother's grade school class, O.J.. Now Ozzie was sometimes a little disappointed in O.J. because he was kind of a wimp on the basketball court (or so says my mom who watched him play on my brother's team). Well, he may be a wimp on the basketball court, but he sure can sing. Now 22, O.J. now goes by the name Nikko Smith and he's one of the top 24 contestants on this year's American Idol! Nikko hails from Town and Country, MO, a small suburb in St. Louis County. He looks exactly like his father, the Wizard (it's a little scary in fact) So watch American Idol and root for the Wizard's son (the Wizard always was a performer too).