I remembered seeing this article a year ago. Sam's habit of sticking out his tongue has been a story of it's own since his high school days--
http://www.iwuhoops.com/tr.pdf
And Dave Reynolds mentioned it in an article a couple weeks ago. See the 3rd paragraph--
http://www.pjstar.com/stories/021108/DAV_BFOHQOPA.071.php
I've worried about that since I've noticed it ... but that could be because I still have a scar on my tounge from catching a baseball with my face when I was 8. Five stitches later, I learned not to stick out my tounge when playing sports.
