School with the Best Athletes
markj111
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Lifted shamelessly from Joe Posnanski's blog:
True to your school
Here is a work in progress. So many people responded to the last post about my “fun for the whole family” game of trying to pick out the best athletes in four different sports for each college that I have started a list here. Got 26 schools so far, lots more to do … but I’m exhausted. We’ll keep updating this over the days ahead until, maybe, we have something resembling a complete list.
Remember: For each college you have to pick the best (1) Basketball player; (2) Football player; (3) Baseball player and (4) WIldcard, which could be any sport, anything semi-involving sport or if it’s good enough a cool alumni who has nothing at all to do with sports.
I nominate Auburn as a contender:
Baseball: Frank Thomas
Football: Bo Jackson
Basketball: Charles Barkley
Other: Rowdy Gaines
True to your school
Here is a work in progress. So many people responded to the last post about my “fun for the whole family” game of trying to pick out the best athletes in four different sports for each college that I have started a list here. Got 26 schools so far, lots more to do … but I’m exhausted. We’ll keep updating this over the days ahead until, maybe, we have something resembling a complete list.
Remember: For each college you have to pick the best (1) Basketball player; (2) Football player; (3) Baseball player and (4) WIldcard, which could be any sport, anything semi-involving sport or if it’s good enough a cool alumni who has nothing at all to do with sports.
I nominate Auburn as a contender:
Baseball: Frank Thomas
Football: Bo Jackson
Basketball: Charles Barkley
Other: Rowdy Gaines
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Basketball: John Havlicek
Baseball: Frank Howard
Football: Eddie George
Other: Jack Nicklaus (or Jesse Owens)
Ohio State is the only school to produce a NBA player who scored at least 20,000 points, a NFL running back who amassed at least 10,000 yards, and a MLB player who hit at least 350 home runs.
Buying Vintage, all sports.
Buying Woody Hayes, Les Horvath, Vic Janowicz, and Jesse Owens autographed items
Basketball - Michael Jordan (greatest player of all-time)
Football - Lawrence Taylor (greatest defensive player of all-time)
Wild Card - Mia Hamm (greatest female soccer player of all-time)
Baseball - ............oh damn!!!!
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Collecting 1970-1979 PSA 9 & 10 Baseball Cards
Kareem
Jackie Robinson
Aikman
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Brian Dawkins - Football
Khalil Greene - Baseball
Horace Grant - Basketball
Wildcards:
John Heisman - FB coach
Strom Thurmond - Track
Baseball: Mark Teixeira, Jason Varitek, Matt Wieters
Basketball: Chris Bosh
Football: Calvin Johnson
Manitoba Agricultural College : Eddie Shore
Baseball: Tony LaRussa (he never played though so, uh, Ross Gload??)
Basketball: Chucky Atkins (greatest NBA journeyman of all time? 8 teams in 10 seasons!)
Football: Anthony Henry (not a household name, but Cowboy fans will know him. He was just traded for Jon Kitna)
Wildcard (the clincher!): Hulk Hogan!
Easy decision, IMO
Football: OJ Simpson, or Marcus Allen if we wish to exclude alleged killers
Baseball: Tom Seaver
Basketball: Cheryl Miller
Wildcard: Jerry Buss
<< <i>UCLA deserves a mention here
Kareem
Jackie Robinson
Aikman
Jackie Joyner-Kersee >>
+1 for UCLA
I would like to throw in the name, Ann Meyers Drysdale.
College
* Ann was a four-year athletic scholarship athlete for the UCLA Bruins women's basketball team (1976–1979), the first woman to be so honored at any university.
* On March 25, 1978 her UCLA Bruins team won the AIAW national champion, defeating Maryland, 90–74 at Pauley Pavilion.
* While at UCLA (1976–1979), she became the first four-time All American women's basketball player,
* She was the winner of the Broderick Award as outstanding women's college basketball player of the year, as well as the Broderick Cup for outstanding woman athlete of the year in 1978.
Olympics and World Competition
* Ann was a member of the USA Basketball team that won the 1975 Pan American Games Gold medal.
* She played on the U.S. Olympic basketball team that won a Silver Medal in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. That team was led by Billie Moore, her coach at UCLA.
* She was on the 1979 USA Basketball team that won the FIBA World Championship for Women Gold medal. This was the first time since 1957 that the United States won the World Championship.
Professional
* Ann was the first woman player drafted by the Women's Professional Basketball League (WBL) in 1978. Ann was the WBL Co-MVP for the 1979-1980.
* In 1980, Ann made NBA history when she signed a $50,000 no-cut contract with NBA's Indiana Pacers. She participated in three-day tryouts for the team, the first by any woman for the NBA, but eventually was not chosen for the final squad.
* She won TV's Women Superstars competition three consecutive years (1980–1982)
Pete Maravich, Shaquille Oneal, Billy Cannon, Joe Adc**k, Alvin Dark, Todd Walker, Bob Pettit, Y. A. Tittle.....has to be some folks I forgot.
<< <i>LSU because I said so!!
Pete Maravich, Shaquille Oneal, Billy Cannon, Joe Adc**k, Alvin Dark, Todd Walker, Bob Pettit, Y. A. Tittle.....has to be some folks I forgot. >>
Warren Morris!
Baseball: Lou Boudreau (HOF)
Football: Red Grange (ESPNs #1 greatest college football player)
Basketball: Deron Williams
Other: Hugh Hefner (best "player" of all time)