Comments on: So how about this?

By: Jeff H.

Jeff H. — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:29:05 +0000

I’ll toss out some for Cornell:

Football: Pop Warner (Alternate: Ed Marinaro)
Baseball: Nobody since the ’40s
Basketball: Only in the front office
Wildcards: Ken Dryden, Joe Nieuwendyk (Hockey), Bruce Arena (Soccer), Dick Schaap (Sports Reporting and Writing), Robert Trent Jones (Golf Course Design)

By: Snowman

Snowman — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:54:07 +0000

It does help, I’m sure, that so many of the Royals’ interleague matchups thus far have been against the Pirates, Reds, and Astros.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:59:42 +0000

@Jim H (#36): Armstrong might’ve got his BS at Purdue, but he got his Masters in Aerospace at USC.

By: Tampa Mike

Tampa Mike — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:44:11 +0000

.590!! If only the Royals had gone to the NL in ‘94 instead of the Brewers. Stupid David Glass.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:00:06 +0000

Others doing their Alma Maters, so here’s TCU:

Football: LaDainian Tomlinson or Sammy Baugh (good start)
Baseball: Pete Donohue or Tex Carleton (completely forgotten, but good pitchers)
Basketball: Kurt Thomas (really? Next best is Lee Nailon)
Golf: Angela Stanford (currently #7 on LPGA tour)

Good football history, anyway. Also Davey O’Brien and Bob Lily.

Weird thing is that Tomlinson, Nailon, and Stanford all were going to school when I was a sports broadcaster there. Maybe one of their recent baseball draftees will surpass Donohue and Carleton.

By: Matt Cibula

Matt Cibula — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:14:53 +0000

Harvard:

Football: Walter Camp, basically invented the game (Alternates: Don McInally, Matt Birk, Tommy Lee Jones, James Brown, Dan Jiggetts, Paul DePodesta)
Baseball: Jocko Conlan, Hall of Fame umpire
Basketball: David Halberstam, author of the best NBA book of all time (Alternate: Arne Duncan, US Education Secretary; Nearly: Dexter Fowler, who accepted then punted a basketball scholarship to play pro baseball)
Wild Card: HOCKEY: Don Sweeney (Alternates: Ted Donato, Bruins coach; Bill & Bob Cleary, host of others)

By: Wes

Wes — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:56:08 +0000

So How About This: The Royals have won four in a row!!!! And have at least scored 4 runs in each game. I guess they listened to ya Joe: Score MORE than four.

By: David Wintheiser

David Wintheiser — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:30:46 +0000

So how about this: Joe Mauer, his last six games, is 11 for 26. He’s had a hit every game, two hits in three of those games, and three hits in one game. In those six games, he has raised his average from .413 to .414.

THAT is how hard it is to hit .400 for as season.

So in his next game, at home against the Pirates, Mauer goes 4-for-4 and raises his average eleven points, to .425.

Interesting. If that’s a curse, let’s have more of it, Joe!

By: Motherscratcher

Motherscratcher — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:17:08 +0000

Pete – Check out #62 (Wes) – Ben Askren kicked all sorts of ass for 2 years on the wrestling mat. He’s no Jesse Owens or Jackie Robinson, but he’s no slouch either.

@#67 Bellwether Johnson – Carl Weathers is also renowned for his ability to make a fantastic stew out of virtually nothing.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:16:02 +0000

My squad, Mizzou, is quite ugly. Mizzou is the largest university in a state with two sports-mad cities, and this is the best I could come up with

Baseball-Ian Kinsler (that’s the best I can do), and he left after one season.
Basketball-Norm Stewart (played there and was obviously the coach for a long time)
Football-Kellen Winslow (awesome, the best athlete of the group)
Wild Card-Um…Carl Edwards? Mizzou doesn’t even have an athlete in a random sport of any kind of renown. Christian Cantwell won a Silver Medal at the recent Olympics, but I don’t think either Edwards or Cantwell can compete with, say, Mia Hamm (UNC) or Jesse Owens (THE Ohio State) or Jackie Robinson by himself at UCLA.