Don't remember Stevenson, but Humble beat us in the football playoffs my sophomore year. A game I think we should have won with Craft at QB and Polk at TB. As I recall, Mosley played pretty well and made some big plays. Oh well. I'm over it now.
Gotta be Air Bullard..... OK maybe not.. hakeem in the 95 playoffs is probably the most amazing performance i've ever seen.. so him in his prime.. .. i'll have to think about the rest.. carl lewis was amazing just because of how long he was successful for etc
Stephan Jones. I'll find some articles for you on him. I couldn't find a lot about him online, as far as basketball. But I found a lot of articles on him from track. He said that he averaged 21 points for his AAU team. I'll find you some articles on him.
Rodney Mullen he has been the best street skater for almost 20 years, he is truly amazing. Christian Fletcher made modern aerial surfing legit, and Laird Hamilton who invented tow-in surfing which allows waves to big to paddle into to be surfed. Terje Hakenson (sp) the best snowboarder free riding and tech. Thats my 2 bits on the board sport gurus. Maurice Green anyone who can run over 27 mph - well that speaks for itself. Lance Armstrong a true hero period.
Lawrence Taylor was physically dominating. An overwhelmingly good player that not even a post-football career of crack smoking and wrestling events can tarnish.
Macbeth: <IMG src="http://www.phillyburbs.com/couriertimes/dailyphotos/0506btrack.jpg"> ^That is him. He is listed at 6-3, but he told me that he is really 6-2. As you can see he needs to bulk up. Here are some articles about him in track. He didn't play for his high school team. I am pretty sure that he said that his AAU team was the 3rd best team in the nation. Here are a bunch of articles with him in them: http://www.phillyburbs.com/couriertimes/news/sports/0506btrack.htm http://www.phillyburbs.com/couriertimes/sports/springgt02/0618btrackleaders.htm http://www.phillyburbs.com/couriertimes/sports/2001springgold/boystrackleaders.shtml Here is an article on his high school's basketball preview. It lists him on their roster, but I don't think that he played for them. http://www.phillyburbs.com/couriertimes/2001wintersportsguide/benbbball.htm (the guy pictures on the left was my basketball camp counselor a year or 2 ago and also works at Foot Action) It is weird that he isn't listed as one of their top returners. Probably cause he agreed to like be on their roster and only play a few games or something. O yeah. And about that thing where I said that he did that dunk with ease. Well he did it at halftime, since he obviously wasn't playing. Here are a few more articles on him: http://www.phillyburbs.com/couriertimes/sports/springgt02/0618btrackteams.htm http://www.phillyburbs.com/couriertimes/sports/2001springgold/boystrackteams.shtml http://www.phillyburbs.com/couriertimes/news/sports/fsgboysxcountry.htm http://www.phillyburbs.com/couriertimes/2001wintersportsguide/btrack.htm Stephan Jones is a really nice guy. I kept having to try on a couple different sizes on Franchise's red Xbeams, and he never seemed to get annoyed having to go back and get a different pair. I also wanted to see how the white ones looks on me, and he seemed to not mind and was really polite. He said that he was suprised that he made it to Kansas. I don't think that he got a scholarship for hoops, but he said that he got good grades so he is elegible to enter the school. I wish him the best. Hopefully if he bulks up he will be a good contributor to the Jayhawks.
TRSF3... Thanks a lot...will keep an eye out and be rooting for him. Personal stories like this give being a fan an extra dimension...
No problem. I see him almost every Sunday at church. He is a really great guy. He told me that it pays to do well and study hard in school, because he said that if he hadn't worked hard he wouldn't have been able to play at Kansas. He said that when he was young he used to practice hoops for hours everyday, with his dad (he is adopted).
I just thought of something. It just like poped into my head. The thing that I liked and respected the most about him was that he never braged about his abilities or was like 'I have a 42 inch vertical, Kansas has been after me, and I averaged 21 a game, I'm the man.' He was incredibly humble. He didn't say anything about his game on his own. All of it was from questions that I asked. When my mom asked him if he played in my church league and he said no, I asked him who he played for. I asked him who he played for then and he said he played AAU basketball. My mom didn't know what that was so she asked him, and he said it's like a travel league where you travel all over the place. So I asked him how good his team was and he said 3rd best in the nation (I think). So I said, "You must be awesome." He said that he had a pretty decent jumper and that being on the track team helped him out a lot. I think that I asked him if he was a star on the team and he said that he averaged about 21 points per game as a PG (I'm pretty sure that he said that). Since he said that he did high jumping and track I then asked him about his vertical and he said that it was 42-inches, second highest on his team. So my mom asked him about what college he was going to and he said that he was going to Kansas. He said that he was incredibly suprised, since they made it to the final four. I can respect a guy like that, that doesn't brag at all about how good he is. If my mom didn't bring up basketball in the first place I probably would've though that he was just a nice, average salesmen. But it turned out that he is an incredibly humble star.
I would have to go with Bruce Lee as well. The guy could stand in the frame of a doorway and kick the top of it without even losing his balance slightly. I have heard that when he kicks you as hard as he can, it is the equivalent of being hit by a truck. The man was the baddest mofo in all the land.
Michael Vick in the championship game against FSU. He made the Seminoles defense look silly. Too bad he was up against another amazing athlete in Peter Warrick.
William "Refrigerator" Perry. I've never seen a D-tackle line up in the back field and run the ball. You can make a case for a lot of other athletes but the Fridge could move for a 300+ pounder.
Although I never saw them in person, these two are considered the greatest athletes of all time: Jim Thorpe Babe Didrikson Zaharias
1. Bo Jackson - Imagine if Bo would have know the weight room. Scary! 2. Larry Allen - Can bench press 700 pounds and dunk a basketball, that's in addition to being one of the greatest OGs to ever play 3. Wilt Chamberlain- Never saw him but incredible from all the stories 4. Deion Sanders- The greats CB (IMO), an all-star in baseball at least one season, and incredibly fast 5. Carl Lewis
I have to give a shout out to my man Lance Armstrong. Also, Buddy Hall is the badest mofo I ever saw on gold crowns.
