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233 Comments on “True to your school”

1. 
   1: Marco said at 11:20 pm on June 16th, 2009:

   Go to sleep, Joe. It’s late.

2. 
   2: will betheboy said at 11:20 pm on June 16th, 2009:

   RE: Minnesota I Dylan also co-wrote a song for Catfish Hunter.

3. 
   3: Alex said at 11:24 pm on June 16th, 2009:

   Another piece of ammo with which to attack Mizzou fans, excellent.

4. 
   4: Alex said at 11:25 pm on June 16th, 2009:

   Also, UNC easily wins the basketball/football player combo with Michael Jordan and Lawrence Taylor.

5. 
   5: Crank said at 11:25 pm on June 16th, 2009:

   My Alma Mater, Holy Cross, off the top of my head:

   Basketball: Easy, Bob Cousy (over Tommy Heinsohn)
   Football: Harder to say, best I remember was Gordie Lockbaum.
   Baseball: Jimmy Ryan over Jack Barry (we’re going waaaaaay back here).
   Wild Card: My friend Bill Simmons.

6. 
   6: Alex said at 11:26 pm on June 16th, 2009:

   And I’m just now realizing that Jordan and Taylor are probably the most famous athletes whom you can reduce to their initials (MJ and LT) and have everybody know who you’re talking about. What are the odds of that?

7. 
   7: Ted said at 11:27 pm on June 16th, 2009:

   I was thinking Vandy or Northwestern. Which ones did they do?

8. 
   8: odessa steps magazine said at 11:28 pm on June 16th, 2009:

   IU

   Football: Trent Green
   Baseball: Mickey Morandini (must be said like Harry Kalas)
   Wildcard: Bob Kennedy (had class with him as freshman)

   I’d like not to pick Isiah, but he certainly was the best player and had the best NBA career (as a player, that is).

   I’d like to do one for Bowling Green (the grad school alma mater), but I think it would be four hockey players.

9. 
   9: Devin McCullen said at 11:29 pm on June 16th, 2009:

   2 corrections: Some people would use LT for LaDanian Tomlinson. Maybe they shouldn’t, but they would.

   Also, I have a 3rd answer for the trivia question: South Florida. The Big East is still a BCS conference, damnit!

10. 
    10: Alex Nadler said at 11:36 pm on June 16th, 2009:

    My alma mater as well as Joe’s, UNC Charlotte:

    Basketball: Cornbread Maxwell
    Football: Oh yeah we don’t have a team (yet) but Matt Hardy (WWE) could probably play some Will Linebacker
    Baseball: John Maine
    Wild Card: Toss up between Jon Busch (MLS) and Calvin Brock (retired boxer) because I refuse to accept Clay Aiken as an alum

11. 
    11: bake1234 said at 11:38 pm on June 16th, 2009:

    I think you missed one in the trivia question: I don’t believe Northwestern has done any of those things.

12. 
    12: bbarnes said at 11:40 pm on June 16th, 2009:

    Not sure if this is verifiable, but I’ve heard Garth Brooks was on the track team at OSU. Javelin or discus, something like that.

13. 
    13: Scott Ward said at 11:51 pm on June 16th, 2009:

    I’m a Mizzou alum who’s assistant SID at Northern Colorado, and our history actually fits in decent here …

    Basketball: Don Meyer (yes, that Don Meyer …)
    Football: Aaron Smith (or Vincent Jackson)
    Baseball: Not a lot of success here … so, I’ll say Don Meyer again. (11-2 with 1.84 ERA his senior year).
    Wild Card: Ed Werder, baby!!!

14. 
    14: Devin McCullen said at 12:06 am on June 17th, 2009:

    After checking Wikipedia (I know), I can’t find anything that fits the trivia question for Northwestern or South Florida. (Vanderbilt had the #1 pick in the 1952 NFL draft)

    Somebody retroactively awarded Northwestern the 1931 basketball #1 ranking, but the quiz specified Final Four. And I checked the Women’s Tourney as well.

15. 
    15: chris said at 12:09 am on June 17th, 2009:

    GEORGIA

    Football-Herschel Walker
    Basketball-Dominique Wilkins
    Baseball-Spud Chandler
    Wildcards:
    Deborah Norville, Julie Moran, Amy Robach (Hot TV Babe Category)
    Phil Gramm, Zell Miller
    Lewis Grizzard

16. 
    16: Andy said at 12:12 am on June 17th, 2009:

    For a big, successful program, the University of Florida’s foursome would be less fearsome than you would think:

    Football: Emmitt Smith/Jack Youngblood
    Basketball: Neal Walk (No. 1 pick)
    Baseball: David Eckstein
    Wild Card: Probably one of Bill France, Jr., who shepherded NASCAR to prominence; Carl Hiaasen, who is Carl Hiaasen; Dara Torres of Olympic fame; or Erin Andrews, who is none of the above.

    Other notable alumni: Darrell Hammond, Faye Dunaway, Buddy Ebsen, Jonathan Demme, Bob Vila, Stephen Stills, Joe Scarborough, and George Solomon. The Gator Nation is nothing if not varied.

17. 
    17: Guy McGuffin said at 12:15 am on June 17th, 2009:

    University of Maryland:

    Basketball – Steve Francis (Buck Williams also makes a compelling argument)
    Football – Randy White (He and Stan Jones are in the HOF. If you want some more sexy people Boomer Esiason and Shawne Merriman)
    Baseball – Charlie “King Kong” Keller (By a wide margin over Eric Milton)
    Wildcards:

    - Larry David – The writer/inspiration behind the assistant to the traveling secretary of the New York Yankees on Seinfeld.

    -Moonlight Graham – Most famous cup of coffee ever.

    -Bert Sugar – Writer & International Boxing HOF Member

    -A whole slew of sports journalists and broadcasters including Tim Kurkjian, Scott Van Pelt, Pam Ward, Bonnie Bernstein, Len Elmore and Boomer.

18. 
    18: Pitchers Hit Eighth said at 12:16 am on June 17th, 2009:

    University of Illinois (shooting from the hip a little):

    Basketball – Kendall Gill (Deron Williams deserves mention)
    Football – Red Grange
    Baseball – Lou Boudreau
    Wildcard – Dick Butkus
    Wildcard II – Dike Eddleman
    Wildcard III – Hugh Hefner
    Wildcard IV – Roger Ebert

    …plenty of others I’m forgetting.

19. 
    19: Lou said at 12:17 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Not to be nitpicker, but Jeter never went to U of Michigan. Barry Larkin did, and he’s probably their best baseball player although Jim Abbott is in the running for this kind of thing.

20. 
    20: Jack said at 12:18 am on June 17th, 2009:

    OK, wait. Michigan state is all out of whack.

    Look:
    Basketball— Magic, obviously. Good work.
    Football— DeLamiellure, maybe, but what about Bubba Smith? Do they have to be in pro hall of fame’s to be on the list? Also: Morton Anderson. But he’s a kicker, so maybe he belongs in the Wildcard list.
    Baseball— Robin Roberts… I guess I’m too young to have any recollection of him. I would have picked Kirk Gibson, but I guess he’s in the hall of fame.
    Wildcard— I think this is what I dispute. You should at least also list:
    WC II: Rod Brind’Amour
    WC III: Ryan Miller (one of two goalies to win the Hobey Baker Award)
    WC IV: Sam Raimi. Evil Dead. No dispute

21. 
    21: chris said at 12:19 am on June 17th, 2009:

    One more wildcard for Georgia:
    Goldberg (the wrestler)
    though in college he was defensive tackle Bill Goldberg.

22. 
    22: Adam said at 12:19 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Derek Jeter play at Michigan.

    Connecticut:

    Basketball: Ray Allen
    Football: Donald Brown
    Baseball: Charles Nagy
    Wild Card: Diana Taurasi

23. 
    23: Andy said at 12:21 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Also, in the forgotten schools category, after a little research:

    Illinois:

    Football: Red Grange/George Halas/Ray Nitschke/Dick Butkus
    Basketball: Red Kerr
    Baseball: Lou Boudreau (George Will also slots in here.)
    Wild Card: Some guy named Ebert. Or Ron Popeil, who dropped out after one year.

    Jerry Colangelo fits both basketball and baseball, as well.

24. 
    24: Bryan said at 12:22 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Wow Joe. I agree with your Wildcard choice of Lynnette Woodard completely, but you have a number of other school’s that have more than one wild card. For KU, not having James Naismith or Phog Allen in their is a travesty. Naismith invented the game and Phog Allen shaped how basketball is coached.

25. 
    25: Andy said at 12:23 am on June 17th, 2009:

    @Pitchers: You beat me to it. Well done.

26. 
    26: odessa steps magazine said at 12:25 am on June 17th, 2009:

    how about for Minnesota:

    Baseball: Dave Winfield
    Basketball: Dave Winfield
    Football: Dave Winfield

    Wild Card: numerous hockey players or Verne Gagne (olympian, ncaa champion, world heavyweight rasslin champion)

27. 
    27: Ryan said at 12:26 am on June 17th, 2009:

    JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY
    Football: Charles Haley
    Basketball: Um…Tamera Young? 8th pick in 2008 WNBA Draft
    Baseball: Um…Dan Meyer? Got his first MLB win this past Friday
    WILDCARDS:
    Scott Norwood (yep…ol’ Wide Right)
    Elliott Sadler (NASCAR)
    LeRoi Moore and Butch Taylor (Dave Matthews Band)
    Phil Vassar (1999 ASCAP as Country Songwriter of the Year!)

28. 
    28: bulb said at 12:26 am on June 17th, 2009:

    For FSU:

    In Baseball do not forget also Woddy Woodward and Dick Howser
    Baketball/Baseball combo Jeff Hogan a 2,000 point guy whose doiuble claim to fame is giving Fidrych his Bird nickname and being married to my Trigonometry teacher at Maclay Day School.

    He’d be a perfect Wildcard

    Don’t forget Dan Tanna as a junior Burt that’s Right Spenser for Hire himself also footballed at FSU.

    Hey Don’t forget the old school receivers Fred Bilitnekoff and Ron Sellers.

    Wild Card we had the greatest US male diver before Louganis Phil something the name escapes me but I grew up watching him practice

    Wild Card someone from the Flying High Circus doing tightwire walk or other spectacular routine. I mean come one it’s a circus populated by students who get credit for it. Only in Florida.

    Non D1 but across town

    FAMU

    Football: Bob Hayes, Willie Gallimore, Ken Riley
    Baseball Andre Dawson, the base stealing “shortstop” whose Hall merist you’ve debated as well sorry its late.
    Tennis-Althea Gibson
    Wild Card-The Rattlers Marching Band.

29. 
    29: bulb said at 12:28 am on June 17th, 2009:

    For FSU:

    FORGOT GOLF:

    HUBERT GREEN AND PAUL AZINGER

30. 
    30: Jack said at 12:29 am on June 17th, 2009:

    OH! Also, another Wildcard: Joe “The Animal” Steele. Apparently, he got his BA at MSU and his Masters (really) at Central Michigan.

    For Central:
    Baseball— Tom Tresh, 1962 AL Rookie of the Year
    Football— Ray Bentley, even though he sucked
    Basketball— Actually harder than it seems. Chris Kamman is probabaly the most well-known for being a Chip, but did anyone else know that Tom Crean went to Central? Not me, until recently. Or how about “Thunder” Dan Majerle? Not me. But Crean is probably No. 1.
    Wildcard— Steele, but above him? Just Jeff Daniels.

31. 
    31: Bryan said at 12:29 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Surprisingly, Missouri fits the “how many BCS colleges have not had ANY of the following?”

    As a KU fan, I find that to be really amazing considering their success through the years. I know they have made a major bowl game before 1998, but not since. We’ll see what Mike Anderson does the next few years…

    1. Football national championship
    2. Basketball Final Four appearance
    3. BCS Bowl appearance (1998 to present)
    4. Naismith Award Winner (best basketball player in America)
    5. Heisman Trophy Winner (most oustanding football player)
    6. No. 1 overall pick in the NFL Draft
    7. No. 1 overall pick in the NBA Draft

32. 
    32: Ryan said at 12:30 am on June 17th, 2009:

    University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Basketball: Heart says Alando Tucker, but the pro stats say Michael Finley

    I once heard a funny story about Stan Van Gundy’s 27-game tenure in Madison, but I forgot it

    Football: Alan Ameche

    Baseball: Bud Selig. Or Addie Joss, if you wanted a player.

    Wildcard: Mark Johnson (two-time All American as a player, wins gold with the 1980 Hockey team, wins two national championships as coach of Wisco’s women’s hockey team)

    Wildcard II: Dick Cheney couldn’t finish his PhD

33. 
    33: JMay said at 12:31 am on June 17th, 2009:

    The UH stellar lineup is a surprising one with their current state, but you can’t put Drexler over Dream and Elvin Hayes!!!

34. 
    34: ajnrules said at 12:46 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Might as well do my alma mater, UVA. PhilM did it in the last one, but our picks are pretty much the same.

    Baseball: Eppa Rixey. Ryan Zimmerman is probably a bigger name now.
    Basketball: Still Ralph Sampson
    Football: Tiki Barber, or maybe even Bill Dudley
    Wildcard: Bruce Arena (coach), Dawn Staley (WNBA), and maybe even Matt Ward (lacrosse)

    And let’s see if I can make a list for the school I’ll be going to for grad school in the fall: University of North Texas

    Football: Mean Joe Greene. The sports teams are named after him.
    Basketball: Joe Hamilton (ABA)
    Baseball: Uhh…Joe Hutcheson is the only one that played in over 50 games in the majors
    Wildcard: Don January (golf)

35. 
    35: Glenn B. said at 1:12 am on June 17th, 2009:

    My alma mater, the Ball State University Fighting Cardinals…

    Football: Brad “Most Punts In A Super Bowl” Maynard
    Basketball: Bonzi Wells
    Baseball: Larry “Mitchell Report” Bigbie
    Wildcard: David Letterman
    Wildcard II: Jason Whitlock
    Wildcard III: The “Boom Goes The Dynamite” Guy

36. 
    36: Dave said at 1:23 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Is the trivia question men’s and women’s hoops or just men’s? I do not think Texas Tech has any of those.

37. 
    37: brandon said at 1:27 am on June 17th, 2009:

    I am a huge Portland Trail Blazers fan, and have loved Clyde Drexler since I was about 5 years old, but Hakeem Olajuwon also went to the University of Houston (at the same time as Clyde the Glide) and even I have to admit that Hakeem was better than Clyde.

38. 
    38: Jimmy said at 1:28 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Stanford

    Football: John Elway (also, Jim Plunkett, Ed McCaffrey, John Lynch?)
    Basketball: Brook Lopez? Adam Keefe?
    Baseball: Mike Mussina
    Wildcard: Tiger Woods
    Wildcard II: John McEnroe
    Wildcard III: Kerri Strug

39. 
    39: BEvans said at 1:40 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Gotta second the motion that Northwestern has done none of the aforementioned.

    The list might look like this

    Football: Otto Graham
    Basketball: Billy McKinney
    Baseball: Joe Girardi
    Wild cards (sports): Brent Musberger, Luke Donald
    Wild cards (non-sports): Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Stephen Colbert

40. 
    40: Cody said at 1:42 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Not my alma mater but for LSU:

    Baseball: Todd Walker
    Football: Kevin Mawae
    Basketball: Pistol Pete (or Shaq)
    Wild Card: Dr. James Andrews, who also won an SEC Championship in the pole vault.

    Tommy Casanova and Billy Cannon could replace Mawae based on football skills and fantastic names.

41. 
    41: Nick O said at 3:09 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Texas Tech played in a BCS bowl game last year, and Derek Jeter didn’t go to Michigan (he was drafted out of a Michigan HS). I’m gonna repost my Cal list, although it was in the last diary.

    Baseball: Jeff Kent
    Basketball: Jason Kidd
    Football: Tony Gonzalez (or Chuck Muncie and a few years down the road perhaps Nnamdi Asomugha)
    Wild cards: Leigh Steinberg (superagent, basis for Jerry Maguire), Natalie Coughlin, Matt Biondi (8-time gold medal swimmer).

    If you want to get into other alumni who sorta have something to do with sports, the list gets ridiculous. Lance Ito (O.J.’s judge) is a funny choice.

42. 
    42: Juancho said at 4:43 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Other KU wildcards: Glenn Cunningham, Jim Ryun, Al Oerter. Also Don Johnson, though he apparently flunked out after one semester. And the guy who discovered the no-longer planet Pluto.

43. 
    43: Seth O said at 5:30 am on June 17th, 2009:

    I see someone had a pretty shabby list for Wisconsin.

    Football – Crazylegs Hirsch, Alan Ameche
    Basketball – Michael Finley
    Baseball – Harvey Kuenn
    Wild Card – (Hockey Division) Chris Chelios, Curtis Joseph, Mike Richter
    Wild Card – (other sports/sports related) Suzie Favor-Hamilton, WSOP Champ Phil Hellmuth, Milwaukee Bucks owner Herb Kohl the Zucker Brothers (BASEketball?), Tom Wopat (aka Luke Duke… um, I saw him sing the national anthem at a Packers game once?)
    Wild Card – (not sporty, but they’ve won awards/done awesome things) Saul Bellow, Abraham Maslow, Steve Miller, Boz Scaggs, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Lindbergh (dropout), David Maraniss, Greta van Susteren, former Descendents frontman Milo Aukerman.

44. 
    44: Chris said at 5:35 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Florida

    Emmitt Smith
    Chris DiMarco
    Joakim Noah
    Brad Wilkerson

45. 
    45: Scotty said at 5:40 am on June 17th, 2009:

    ajnrules beat me to Virginia, so I’ll just have to back him up.

    Basketball: Ralph Sampson.
    Football: Bullet Bill Dudley, Tike Barber or Jim Dombrowski.
    Baseball: Ryan Zimmerman.
    Wildcard: Soccer coach Bruce Arena, soccer player Claudio Reyna, women’s basketball Dawn Staley, comic genius Tina Fey, journalist Katie Couric, sports broadcaster Melissa Stark

46. 
    46: ck said at 5:54 am on June 17th, 2009:

    I do wish that at some point the Dave Winfield Played Three Sports!!! meme would go away, since it’s a myth. He didn’t play a down of college football and may not even have played in high school, and his being drafted by the Vikings (in the 17th round in 1973, back when the draft went that long) was an obvious publicity stunt and nothing more. You’d think it would be enough that he’s in the Baseball Hall of Fame and started at forward for a Big Ten champion basketball team.

47. 
    47: Paul White said at 6:07 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Let me second the nomination for a better string of KU wildcards than just Lynette Woodard. She was great, no doubt, but when the three winningest college basketball programs all play in buildings named after KU grads (Kentucky – Adolph Rupp; North Carolina – Dean Smith; Kansas – Phog Allen), doesn’t that have to be mentioned somewhere?

48. 
    48: Paul White said at 6:18 am on June 17th, 2009:

    In honor of the effort Joe put into this, here is UNC-Charlotte:

    Baseball: Bryan Harvey or John Maine
    Football: Hard to say since they don’t have a football team
    Basketball: Cornbread Maxwell
    Wildcard: Joe
    Wildcard: Calvin Brock, Olympic and pro heavyweight boxer
    Wildcard: Clay Aiken. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

49. 
    49: Michael said at 6:32 am on June 17th, 2009:

    I realize that the place was still called Oklahoma A&M when he played, but doesn’t Bob Kurland tower over John Starks?

50. 
    50: Timmayyyyy said at 6:38 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Jeter attended Michigan for 1 semester (but did not play for the team). So a technicality there … but I would not count him.

    Looking at the lists, I put Auburn, UCLA, Notre Dame and Cal (from the comments) at the top of the pile and maybe even Michigan with Larkin for baseball.

    Those schools had current/future hall of famers at each major sport with a great wildcard.

    Most schools had at least 1 name that was a stretch (e.g. Kansas baseball player).

    And how about Rutgers:
    Basketball – David Stern or Jim Valvano (don’t ever give up)
    Baseball – Jeff Torborg or Eric Young (or David Dejesus)
    Football – Deron Cherry (all NFL team 1980s) or Ray Rice
    Wild Cards – Alexi Lalas or James Gandolfini

    Not a bad group.

51. 
    51: Charlie said at 6:52 am on June 17th, 2009:

    UCONN #2

    Basketball: Ben Gordon
    Baseball: Walt Dropo
    Football: Vin Clements
    Wildcard: Chris Gbandi (soccer)

52. 
    52: Concerned Citizen said at 6:57 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Here’s a lopsided one…

    Penn State:

    Basketball: Suzie McConnell-Serio (over John Amaechi)
    Football: Jack Ham (over countless others)
    Baseball: Mike Scioscia (who did not play, so… um… Nate Bump?)
    Wildcard I: Joe Paterno
    Wildcard II: Donald Bellisario (Magnum PI, Quantum Leap, JAG, NCIS)
    Wildcard III: Jonathan Frakes (Cmdr. Riker from Star Trek TNG)
    Wildcard IV: Tom Verducci

53. 
    53: Jamie Cartledge said at 7:00 am on June 17th, 2009:

    As the product of two Georgia Tech students I feel obliged to share Tech’s list (which you will note is FAR more impressive than the list from the University of Georgia). And in the spirit of the length of Joe’s posts, I felt like there is enough history as well as current success that I needed two categories of worthy representation. So without further ado:

    Georgia Tech:

    Historical –
    Basketball: Mark Price/Dennis Scott
    Football: Pat Swilling
    Baseball: Jason Varitek/Nomar Garciaparra
    Golf: Bobby Jones
    Wildcard I: John Heisman
    Wildcard II: Bobby Dodd
    Wildcard III: President Jimmy Carter
    Wildcard IV: John Young (Commanded the first Space Shuttle)
    Wildcard V: Fmr Secretary of the Army, Navy, & Air Force (Pete Geren, William Ball, & Edward Aldridge)

    Recent –
    Basketball: Chris Bosh
    Football: Calvin Johnson
    Baseball: Mark Teixeira
    Golf: Stewart Cink/David DuVall
    Wildcard I: Jeff Foxworthy
    Wildcard II: Michael Arad (Designed the World Trade Center Memorial)

54. 
    54: T.B. said at 7:04 am on June 17th, 2009:

    C’mon Joe, Michigan baseball slot has to go to Barry Larkin. Jeter’s a better hitter, but at least Lark could field his position.

55. 
    55: Norman said at 7:06 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Boston College:

    Basketball: Dana Barros/John Bagley
    Baseball: Jimmy Ryan (a forgotten turn of the century player with over 9000 Plate appearances) Eddie Waitkus would probably be 2nd, “the Natural” was based on his experience with a “fan”
    Football: Doug Flutie or Art Donovan (Donovan is in the HoF). Maybe Matt Ryan one day. Tons of OL to choose from too.
    Wild Card: Bill Guerin (tons of Hockey player to choose from – politicians too) Tip O’Neil? John Kerry?

56. 
    56: Byron said at 7:07 am on June 17th, 2009:

    “Carl Yastrzemski Notre Dame”

    Actually Yaz completed his degree at night and got his degree from Merrimack College in North Andover, MA.

57. 
    57: Deacon Drake said at 7:14 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Boston College:

    Football: Doug Flutie (passing the torch to Matt Ryan eventually)
    Basketball: Howard Eisley?
    Baseball: Tony Sanchez (yeah, BC doesn’t do much baseball)
    Hockey: Jerry York (over the dozen NHL players and Hall of Famers)
    Wild cards: Lesley Visser and Elisabeth Hasselbeck

58. 
    58: Dave said at 7:15 am on June 17th, 2009:

    I love that there is a posterik to “avoid thew whole Barry Bonds thing” but there isn’t one for O.J Simpson…

59. 
    59: Dominic said at 7:17 am on June 17th, 2009:

    I agree with Brandon. Hakeem Olajuwon over Clyde Drexler, for Houston is not really much of a choice. It’s Hakeem and it’s not up for much debate. They tried to market the whole Clyde = MJ, in the early 90s, but nobody really bought that.

60. 
    60: Nathan said at 7:21 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Joe, as the Kansas “wildcard”, my choice would have to be Jim Ryun. First high schooler to run a sub-4 minute mile, was a great runner while at Kansas, and ESPN.com has ranked him the best high school athlete of all time. He even went on to become a Congressman from Kansas.

    Lynette Woodard is certainly great as well and she deserves to have her number hanging in Allen, but I’d take Ryun over her.

61. 
    61: Scotty said at 7:22 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Here’s University of Richmond:

    Basketball: Johnny Newman or Bob McCurdy
    Football: Mike Bragg, Barty Smith, Tim Hightower, Walker Gillette, Jeff Nixon, Barry Redden
    Baseball: Lew Burdette or Brian Jordan
    Wild-card: PGA Tour commish Tim Finchem, distance runner Hillary Tuwei

62. 
    62: Tar Heelia said at 7:26 am on June 17th, 2009:

    North Carolina:

    Basketball: Mike Jordan
    Football: Lawrence Taylor
    Baseball: BJ Surhoff
    Wildcard: Mia Hamm
    Wildcard: Allan Johnson (2x Gold Medalist)
    Wildcard: Jim Lampley
    Wildcard: Anson Dorrance
    Wildcard: Roy Williams
    Wildcard: Dan Cortese (MTV Rock n Jock)

63. 
    63: Matt said at 7:27 am on June 17th, 2009:

    For Michigan, its Barry Larkin in a walk for baseball. The only reason Jeter would even be considered is that he is more durable. Other than that, Larkin’s got him hands down.

    Also, as big a Brady fan as I am, unless this is just about fame and not performance (on a college level), then Michigan football has to be Tom Harmon. Won the Heisman, took Michigan to a National Championship. Best football player Michigan’s ever had.

64. 
    64: Matt said at 7:31 am on June 17th, 2009:

    We are PENN STATE!

    Basketball – admittedly a little light…John Amaechi was the first gay former NBA player to openly come out

    Football – Franco Harris, Kerry Collins…

    Baseball – Mike Scioscia

    Wild Card – Toby Flenderson (of Dunder-Mifflin)

65. 
    65: sean lahman said at 7:33 am on June 17th, 2009:

    How about the University of Cincinnati?

    Baseball: HOFer Sandy Koufax
    Basketball: HOFer Oscar Robertson
    Football: Super bowl MVP Jim O’Brien or HOF Coach Sid Gillman
    Wildcard: Tennis HOFer Tony Trabert, baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, William Howard Taft (first president to throw ceremonial first pitch and alleged creator of seventh inning stretch)

    Non sports: Oscar winner George Clooney, Emmy winner Sarah Jessica Parker, Neil Armstrong (1st on moon) and Albert Sabin (developed oral polio vaccine)

66. 
    66: Brent said at 7:37 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Thanks Joe for the trivia about Mizzou. We really needed that. I would point out to all the Jayhawkers out there who are crowing about this, the only reason we don’t have a National Championship in football is because you guys are a bunch of cheaters.

    Now I feel better.

67. 
    67: Adam said at 7:37 am on June 17th, 2009:

    West Virginia University

    Basketball Jerry West The Logo
    Football Sam Huff
    Baseball. Steve Kline
    WildCard: Rod Thorn or Hot Rod Hundley

68. 
    68: Fray said at 7:40 am on June 17th, 2009:

    University of Kentucky …

    Basketball: Dan Issel (Adolph Rupp, Jamal Mashburn, Pat Riley, Jack Givens, Tony Delk)
    Baseball: Brandon Webb (Joe Blanton)
    Football: Dermontti Dawson (Bear Bryant, George Blanda, Babe Parilli, Tim Couch)
    Wild Card: Ashley Judd (Happy Chandler, Stonewall Jackson, J.B. Holmes, Steve Flesch)

69. 
    69: Ped said at 7:40 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Wisconsin-Madison
    Basketball: Bo Ryan
    Football: Alan Ameche
    Baseball: Lance Painter (Hey, it snows in Madison in May)
    Wildcard: Chris Chelios

70. 
    70: lar said at 7:40 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Here’s the best I can come up with right now for Fresno State (hometown) and Cal Poly (alma mater):

    Fresno State:
    Baseball: Terry Pendleton (#1 by Win Shares)
    Football: Henry Ellard
    Basketball: Rafer Alston
    Wild Card: ?? (I’m sure there are a ton that I’m not thinking of right now)

    Cal Poly
    Baseball: Ozzie Smith
    Football: John Madden
    Basketball: –no NBA players, ever–
    Wild Card: Weird Al
    Wild Card (sports): Chuck Liddell, Alex Spanos (San Diego Charges owner)

    It’s a shame there’s no NBA player from Cal Poly, because I’d say that’s a pretty good list from a small (sports) school…

    The list of dubious sports stars from Fresno State is much more interesting…

    Oh, and here’s a pretty good list that I did a few months ago looking at the top talent producing universities in baseball.

71. 
    71: Nathan said at 7:42 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Ok, so I know I just said Jim Ryun should be the wildcard for Kansas because that was my first thought, but after spending a little more time on this, there are a few names that should also be considered:

    Bill James – I can’t believe I didn’t think of his name first. I mean is there someone who defines “wildcard” better in this context than him?

    Dean Smith – Legendary coach of the second winningest college basketball program in the country. They named their arena after him.

    Adolph Rupp – Legendary coach of the winningest college basketball program in the country. They named their arena after him.

    Kevin Harlan – THE voice of the NFL and NBA.

    Scott Bakula – Played QB in movie “Necessary Roughness” (obviously Paul Rudd is the hotter actor today, but he doesn’t have any notable sports roles to link to that I know of).

72. 
    72: TomC said at 7:43 am on June 17th, 2009:

    For Syracuse Wildcards, think about adding the Gait brothers, Gary and Paul(3 national LAX championships), or the Powell brothers, Casey, Ryan and Mike, who were each 4-time all Americans. Mike Powell won the LAX equivalent of the Heisman twice and was a finalist all 4 years. Syracuse has won 11 national LAX titles… which kinda makes up for them axing the baseball program.

73. 
    73: JoshC said at 7:46 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Virginia Tech:

    Basketball: Dell Curry
    Football: Bruce Smith (it said best player, not most famous, and we’re talking career achievement)
    Baseball: Johnny Oates (combined achievement player and manager — Joe Saunders might overtake him based solely on playing career, but we’re not there yet)
    Wildcard: Homer Hickam (Rocket Boys)

74. 
    74: JPO said at 7:49 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Guy McGuffin, a quibble. Steve Francis? One and done? Maryland basketball’s representative must be Len Bias. And their wildcard? Larry David is solid, but I’ve really got to go with Carl Bernstein.

75. 
    75: stephen said at 7:50 am on June 17th, 2009:

    I’ll do the addendum to the LSU, as an alum, two lists (one based on what they did in college, one in the pros)

    Football: Kevin Mawae (my all-time favorite player, glad someone mentioned him)/ Jim Taylor (greatest fullback ever) or YA Tittle

    Basketball: Pistol Pete/ Shaq (no space for Bob Petit)

    Baseball: Todd Walker (hit the most amazing HR I ever saw – dominant in college)/ Albert “Don’t Call Me Joey” Belle or Alvin Dark

    Wild Cards: lots of options, so by sport:

    Track: Lolo Jones (greatest hurdler, even with the Olympic flub)
    Women’s basketball: Simeone Augustus (player of the year)
    Golf: David Toms (he did win a major)

    I’ll go with Lolo Jones.

76. 
    76: Tyler said at 7:50 am on June 17th, 2009:

    University of Kentucky

    Basketball – Take your pick, I’ll go with Pat Riley
    Football – Howard Schnellenberger
    Baseball – Brandon Webb
    Wild Card – Ashley Judd

    Wild Card II – George Blanda
    Wild Card III – Jamal Mashburn
    Wild Card IV – Happy Chandler

77. 
    77: Tyler said at 7:53 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Second thought, let’s switch a couple to adhere to the “athletes” tag:

    University of Kentucky

    Basketball – Jamal Mashburn
    Football – George Blanda
    Baseball – Brandon Webb
    Wild Card – Ashley Judd
    Wild Card II – Pat Riley
    Wild Card III – Howard Schnellenberger
    Wild Card IV – Happy Chandler

78. 
    78: Benji said at 7:59 am on June 17th, 2009:

    I’ll give my two alma maters a go

    First, Iowa State:

    Football: Troy Davis (two time 2,000 yard rusher and Heisman runner-up)
    Basketball: Jeff Hornacek (actually walked on first year at ISU)

    Baseball: Mike Meyers (relief pitcher…slim pickings)

    Athlete Wild Card: Has to be either Dan Gable or Cael Sanderson

    Sports Related WC: Berkley Bedell: founded famous fishing line and tackle company Berkley or
    Ed Droste: co-founded Hooters Restaurant or
    Bruce Roth: invented Lipitor extending the lives of millions of sports fans

    Also the University of Utah:

    Football: Larry Wilson (HOF safety) more recently Steve or Alex Smith

    Basketball: any one of a number of semi-famous players like Tom Chambers, Keith Van Horn, Andre Miller, Andrew Bogut

    Baseball: Chris Shelton (seriously and it’s not even close!)

    Wild Card: Mills Lane (Boxing ref), Rober Jarvik (invertor of artificial heart), Wilbert Gore (inventor of Gore-tex fabric)

    Cold weather schools have a real problem filling the baseball requirement.

79. 
    79: Gorgeous Terry said at 8:00 am on June 17th, 2009:

    University of Hartford:

    Baseball – Jeff Bagwell
    Basketball – Vin Baker
    Football – nada

    Wildcard – Alex Briley (the “G.I.” guy from The Village People)

80. 
    80: M said at 8:01 am on June 17th, 2009:

    PLEASE stop encouraging Joe. He is needed around the house.

81. 
    81: Devin McCullen said at 8:07 am on June 17th, 2009:

    For Penn State baseball, you probably want to go with HOFer John Montgomery Ward.

82. 
    82: Red said at 8:21 am on June 17th, 2009:

    For Michigan wildcard / football, how about Gerald Ford?

    Lance Armstrong could conceivably be a honorary wildcard for Texas (didn’t attend but huge fan).

83. 
    83: Red said at 8:23 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Doesn’t Indiana basketball have to be Larry Bird? He attended for a semester or a year before transferring to Indiana State, didn’t he?

84. 
    84: David said at 8:24 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Tom Landry did not go to the University of Houston. He played at Texas with Bobby Layne. Can’t trust Wikipedia.

85. 
    85: Guy McGuffin said at 8:28 am on June 17th, 2009:

    JPO – That’ a fair quibble about Steve Francis, but I’m not going to pick Len Bias. It was tragic and probably a cultural turning point in this country, but why would we pick him here? Juan Dixon eclipsed his scoring record, went to two Final Fours and won a National Championship. So if we’re going off of college accomplishment, I argue that it has to be Juan. But if we’re looking at NBA success then Buck Williams and his 3 All-Star games is probably the best.

    And does Bernstein have any connection to sports?

86. 
    86: Curtis said at 8:29 am on June 17th, 2009:

    No offense to Tiger or Watson, but Trombone Player would have been a funnier wild card for Stanford. Less impact on the world of sports, but funnier.

    BYU has a strong entry I haven’t seen -

    Football – Steve Young (Jim McMahon)
    Basketball – Danny Ainge (though the more esoteric might prefer Kresmir Cosic)
    Baseball – Jack Morris
    Wildcard – Johnny Miller (golf)

87. 
    87: Erik said at 8:33 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Ohio University

    Basketball; Gary Trent
    Football; Dave Zastudil (punter, Browns)
    Baseball; Mike Schmidt
    Wildcards; Paul Newman (yes, that Paul Newman), Peter King, Arsenio Hall, Ty Votaw (LPGA Commish)

    Bang. That just happened.

88. 
    88: Alex Hamilton said at 8:35 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Columbia:

    Football: Sid Luckman (or Marcellus Wiley, if you want to get more recent)
    Basketball: Jim McMahon
    Baseball: Lou Gehrig
    Wildcard: A bevy of choices. If you really want to stay sports-related, you could go with Gene Larkin.

89. 
    89: Bucky said at 8:37 am on June 17th, 2009:

    The Carlisle Indian School:
    Lacrosse: HOF member Leon Miller,
    Baseball: HOF member Chief Bender,
    Football and Track HOF member: (and national ballroom champion and greatest athlete ever) Jim Thorpe,
    Wild-card I: Albert A. Exendine, football and track star, later lawyer and activist,
    Wild-card I: Pop Warner had his first great successes at Carlisle.

90. 
    90: aw2pp said at 8:43 am on June 17th, 2009:

    I’ll play…

    Vanderbilt
    Football – Jay Cutler
    Basketball – Will Perdue
    Baseball – (ask again in a few years… I am not sure David Price or Pedro Alvarez have the body of work to edge out… Scott Sanderson or Joey Cora)
    Wildcard… Grantland Rice (I’ll take him over Brandt Sedenker, 2007 PGA ROY)

91. 
    91: John said at 8:45 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Nebraska:

    Football: Tommie Frazier
    Basketball: Eric Piatkowski
    Baseball: Daren Erstad
    Wildcard: Rulon Gardner

    In football, you could go with Johnny Rodgers or Mike Rozier, both Heisman winners. Or even Tom “Train Wreck” Novak if you want to go way back (one of the all time great nicknames, by the way). But I think Frazier’s the obvious call here.

    The pickings are pretty slim in basketball, but I’d take Piatkowski over Tyronn Lue. Both had outstanding college careers but Piatkowski had a little better pro career. Based solely on performance in college, you might take Dave Hoppen.

    Baseball: I think Erstad narrowly edges out Alex Gordon, but it’s pretty close. If Gordon has the career we’re all hoping for, I think he becomes the obvious choice. (of course, right now Alex trails Ken Harvey in All-Star appearances by an NU alum 1-0).

    The wildcard I think has to be Rulon “I’m a happy dude” Gardner who won the gold medal in wrestling at the (1988?) Olympics, beating the undefeated Ivan-Drago-Looking Russian for the gold in one of the biggest upsets ever. You could also go with Merlene Ottey, who has represented Jamaica as a sprinter in every Olympics dating back to roughly 1956. I don’t follow the sport closely enough to know for sure, but I’d guess she has around 14 olympic silver medals for the 100 and 200. I’m probably forgetting some other wildcard candidate.

92. 
    92: JD said at 8:46 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Mississippi State

    Football-Fred Smoot

    Baseball-Rafael Palmeiro

    Basketball-Erick Dampier

    Wild Card-John Grisham

    Wild Card II-Will Clark

    Wild Card III-Johnathan Papelbon

    University of Mississippi

    Football-Archie Manning

    Baseball-David Dellucci (boy, that’s sad)

    Basketball-Ansu Sesay (yep, we know what sport Ole Miss ignores)

    Wild Card-William Faulkner

    Wild Card II-Jim Barksdale (founder of Netscape)

    Wild Card III-James Meredith

    Wild Card IV-Kate Jackson of Charlie’s Angels

    Wild Card V-Ron Franklin

93. 
    93: Robert Murphy said at 8:48 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Off the top of my head for the University of Nebraska.

    Nebraska Cornhuskers:
    Football – Will Shields
    Basketball – Eric Piatkowski
    Baseball – Darin Erstad
    Wildcard – Rulon Gardner

94. 
    94: Scott P. said at 8:49 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Columbia University:

    Baseball: Lou Gehrig
    Football: Sid Luckman
    Basketball: Henry Dehnert

    Wildcard: Cristina Teuscher

95. 
    95: Perry said at 8:49 am on June 17th, 2009:

    @ Odessa Steps:

    Bowling Green’s actually pretty strong. You’ve got Orel Hershiser in baseball, Nate Thurmond in basketball, and Phil Villapiano in football.

96. 
    96: Shane said at 8:52 am on June 17th, 2009:

    mizzou has brad pitt, who will be playing billy beane in moneyball

97. 
    97: Chuckster said at 8:54 am on June 17th, 2009:

    For The University of Iowa:

    Basketball: B.J. Armstrong or Bobby Hansen,
    Football: Heisman Trophy winner Nile Kinnick,
    Baseball: Cal Eldred or Mike Boddicker,
    Wildcard I: W.P. Kinsella (author of Field of Dreams),
    Wildcard II: Eddie Robinson (former Grambling football coach),
    Wildcard III: Lou Holtz
    Wildcard IV: Gene Wilder (just for Blazing Saddles and Willy Wonka).

98. 
    98: Henry said at 8:56 am on June 17th, 2009:

    Ohio:

    Football – Vince Costello
    Basketball – Jerry Jackson
    Baseball – Mike Schmidt
    Wildcard I – John Galbreath (owned Pittsburgh Pirates for three WS titles, also owned Kentucky Derby winning horse)
    Wildcard II – Peter King (SI writer)
    Wildcard III – Ty Votaw, LPGA commissioner

99. 
    99: Perry said at 9:02 am on June 17th, 2009:

    My grad school alma mater, Utah State:

    Football: Merlin Olsen
    Basketball: Wayne Estes, LaDell Anderson
    Baseball: Ummmm…..
    Wild Card: Jay Sylvester

100. 
     100: Alex said at 9:06 am on June 17th, 2009:

     Villanova University

     Football: Howie Long (or Brian Westbrook)
     Basketball: Paul Arizin (NBA Top 50)
     Baseball: Ben Geraghty (admittedly a weak link here…if you want a player, could go with Mickey Vernon)
     Wildcard I: Eamonn Coghlan (one of the best milers ever)
     Anti-wildcard: Tim Donaghy

101. 
     101: HoyaSoxa said at 9:08 am on June 17th, 2009:

     Georgetown’s best 4:

     Hoops: Patrick Ewing

     Grid: Al Blozis (All-Pro tackle with the NY Giants, WWII Hero died in battle, also former world record holder in discus)

     Diamond: Doc White (1906 AL ERA Champ, won 189 games in 13 seasons with the Phillies and the ChiSox)

     Wildcard: Paul Tagliabue (played basketball at GU but made his name in another sport)

     Also receiving votes: Driver (and former hoops walkon) Brendan Gaughn, Olympic sailor Andrew Campbell, a bunch of track and field Olympians, lax star Sheehan Stanwick

102. 
     102: HoyaSoxa said at 9:11 am on June 17th, 2009:

     Should have also mentioned Caps owner Ted Leonsis as a wildcard. The less said about Grizzlies owner Michael Heisley, the better.

103. 
     103: Harrison said at 9:14 am on June 17th, 2009:

     My choice for University of Michigan wild card? James Earl Jones. I mean, choosing Phelps is predictable since he’s the greatest Olympic swimmer ever, but that pales compared to Darth Vader. Also, Gerald Ford was president and an excellent football player.

104. 
     104: HoyaSoxa said at 9:17 am on June 17th, 2009:

     Damn, forgot about Frank and Jamie McCourt (Dodgers owners), Chris Antonetti (Indians Assistant GM), and Jim Schwartz (Lions HC), and Mark Murphy (Packers CEO, though only a law alum). Next time I should check Wikipedia first.

105. 
     105: Ben Johnson said at 9:18 am on June 17th, 2009:

     Re: Carlisle Indian School. Another wild-card thought is Marianne Moore, who taught there for a couple years (her students included Jim Thorpe), and in addition to being a super-major American poet later on in her life, she also wrote the introduction to Muhammad Ali’s “I Am the Greatest”, threw out the first pitch of a season at Yankee Stadium, and wrote a poem about the ‘55 Dodgers that was inscribed on a bronze plaque at the entrance to Ebbett’s Field. She also had a dissertation chapter written about her by me.

106. 
     106: Arob said at 9:24 am on June 17th, 2009:

     I wasn’t going to post my alma mater until I saw some of the lists above (looking at you University of Richmond). Here goes:

     Villanova University:

     Football: Howie Long, Brian Westbrook

     Baseball: Mickey Vernon (.286 career hitter in a 20-year major league career, played in 2,409 games and hit 172 career home runs & 2,495 hits)

     Basketball: Paul Arizin (NBA Top 50 player), Ed Pinckney, Kerry Kittles

     Wildcard: Tim Donaghy (That’s right), other random Olympians

     Go Cats!

107. 107: Thinking out loud 6.17.9 : ctrentrosecrans.com said at 9:25 am on June 17th, 2009:

     [...] Joe Posnanski asked his readers to give their school’s best athletes in 1. football 2. men’s basketball 3. baseball and 4. a wild card. It’s a cool exercise [...]

108. 
     108: Mac said at 9:28 am on June 17th, 2009:

     If you want an actual athlete for Alabama’s wildcard spot, probably Jerry Pate. How about Forrest Gump?

     Worst alumnus: Bernie Madoff, though he only went there one year.

109. 
     109: Sean said at 9:34 am on June 17th, 2009:

     UCF:

     Football: Probably gotta go Daunte Culpepper, although Asante Samuel and Brandon Marshall could pass him eventually. Also, Kevin Smith based on college career.

     Baseball: Mike Maroth

     Basketball: Jermaine Taylor, potential 1st rounder in 2009.

     Wild Card (1): Phil Dalhausser, olympic beach volleyball gold medalist.

     Wild Card (2): Michelle Akers, world champion women’s soccer player, part of the FIFA 100, Hermann Trophy winner, and soccer Hall of Famer.

     Not a great list, but better than what you’d think when first talking about UCF.

110. 
     110: husker in tigerland said at 9:35 am on June 17th, 2009:

     Nebraska has a bunch for Football. Makes it hard to choose.
     For basketball however anyone who remembers back to the 60s will have to at least consider Stuart Lanz forward/guard as probably the best to ever play the sport at N.U. The confrontations with Kansas and Jo Jo White were awesome.

111. 
     111: Mark W. said at 9:45 am on June 17th, 2009:

     I’m not an alum from Northwestern but those of you who are should add a BIG wild-card…GOD…or, as he was known to most of us, Charlton Heston. I’d say he’s been a bit more influential than Julia Louis-Dreyfuss (not that there’s anything wrong with her!)

112. 
     112: Zdebman said at 9:47 am on June 17th, 2009:

     Kansas State

     Football: Lynn Dickey, Terrence Newman or Darren Sproles
     Basketball: Mitch Richmond, Rolando Blackman or Michael Beasley
     Baseball: Eldon Auker
     Wildcard: Kenny Harrison (Triple Jump gold medal in ‘96 Olympics)

     Bonus points for Earl Woods, Tiger’s dad, who broke the color barrier in Big 7 baseball.

113. 
     113: Jere said at 9:54 am on June 17th, 2009:

     Unfortunately, Yaz left Notre Dame before ever lacing up the cleats…

114. 
     114: Spud said at 10:05 am on June 17th, 2009:

     Illinois State

     Basketball: Doug Collins
     Baseball: Dave Bergman (an All-America at ISU) or 1974 NL ERA leader Buzz Capra
     Football: Mike Prior (intercepted a pass in Packers’ Super Bowl win over Patriots)
     Wild card: John Malkovich or Gary Sinise

115. 
     115: Brent said at 10:06 am on June 17th, 2009:

     A Mizzou guy, but since no one has done my parents’ alma mater, here is KState.

     Football: Lynn Dickey or Steve Grogan, probably better than any of the more recent players, although if you want current then Terrence Newman or Darren Sproles.

     Basketball: Again, apologies to Michael Beasley, but I would go to Rolando Blackmon or Mitch Richmond here.

     Baseball: Probably will be that Morris kid who was All-American this year, but for now Elden Auker, 130-111 in 10 seasons with the Tigers, Red Sox and Browns in the 30s and 40s.

     Wildcards: Hmm, coaching must be in the blood in Kansas, since the Hawkers have already talked about a lot of theirs, but KState does all right too, Tex Winter, Cotton Fitzsimmons, Jack Hartman and Lon Kruger are the 4 head basketball coaches at KState from 1954-1990. That’s a really good list. And Gene Keady played football there. And I haven’t even started in on the Bill Snyder coaching tree.

116. 
     116: Marc R said at 10:11 am on June 17th, 2009:

     Yale (just so everybody else can feel superior):

     Baseball: Ron Darling (George H.W. Bush?)
     Basketball: Clyde Lovelette (or Chris Dudley)
     Football: Calvin Hill
     Wildcards: B.D. from Doonesbury, Walter Camp, Jodie Foster, Jennifer Beals, and Jeff Van Gundy

117. 
     117: bulb said at 10:13 am on June 17th, 2009:

     GA Tech Historical

     John Heisman or Cumberland Defense I mean c’mon 222-0!!!!!

     Stanford Baseball Also Black Jack McDowell worth a nod behind Mussina

     Columbia wild card Nicky Dawidoff’s The Catcher is A Spy guy Moe Berg! Sorry he was a classmate and fellow Hist and Lit concentrator, so I go familiar on the first name.

118. 
     118: Adam said at 10:13 am on June 17th, 2009:

     C’mon Joe–do you really need to poke your Mizzou readership with the stick?

     The BCS thing is pretty arbitrary, since it devalues appearances in Orange/Rose/Fiesta/Sugar (and even Cotton Bowls, since a few national champs played there) from prior to 1998. Mizzou has played in the Orange, Fiesta, and Sugars Bowls. Arizona State played for the national championship in the Rose Bowl in 1997. In fact, Arizona State and Mizzou played each other in the 1972 Fiesta Bowl. Don’t contribute to making anything related to the BCS appear to be legitimate.

     In respect to the other things, it’s kind of surprising that Mizzou is 0-for-the field, as while Mizzou isn’t some juggernaut, we’ve had a decent share of good teams and players.

119. 
     119: fordham said at 10:15 am on June 17th, 2009:

     Fordham:

     Football: Vince Lombardi
     Baseball: Frankie Frisch
     Basketball: P.J. Carlesimo
     Wildcard: Vin Scully (or Denzel Washington! Remember The Titans!)

120. 
     120: David in Toledo said at 10:21 am on June 17th, 2009:

     Let me add to Alex (88) and Scott (94) about Columbia:

     Football: Yes, Sid Luckman. Or Marcellus. Or Dr. Z (Paul Zimmerman of SI.) Or Brian Dennehy. Or Bill Campbell, CEO of Intuit. Or Robert Kraft of the Patriots. Or Jack Kerouac.
     Basketball: Chet Forte (led the nation in scoring before directing Monday Night Football). Or Jim McMillian of Kareem’s Lakers.
     Baseball: Lou Gehrig or Eddie Collins.
     Wildcard: Cristina Teuscher. Or Art Garfunkel, he might have helped to write the line, “Where did you go, Joe DiMaggio?”

121. 
     121: Andrew said at 10:24 am on June 17th, 2009:

     University of Washington:
     Football: Warren Moon
     Baseball: Tim Lincecum
     Basketball: Brandon Roy
     WildCard: Danielle Lawrie (just won national player of the year for softball as a junior, and lead team to national champ)
     Also: Bruce Lee, Nate Robinson, Fred Hutchinson, many more

122. 
     122: David in Toledo said at 10:33 am on June 17th, 2009:

     What about a contest to see which school can come up with the four most prominent sports game-throwers, drug abusers, postgraduate felons, and bankruptcies?

123. 
     123: Danpasquabilities said at 10:35 am on June 17th, 2009:

     UMass

     Basketball: Dr. J, Marcus Camby
     Baseball: Gary DiSarcina, Jeff Reardon
     Lacrosse: Mark Millon
     Soccer: Brianna Scurry (World Cup goalie)
     Wildcard: Bill Cosby (his doctoral thesis was the basis for PicturePages)

     (Wait, did I leave out football?)

124. 
     124: Banky said at 10:38 am on June 17th, 2009:

     Since the Eagle’s sport content is the exact same as the Star’s I can’t believe no one has posted Wichita State’s clearly dominant list:

     Baseball: Joe Carter
     Football: Bill Parcels
     Basketball: Xavier McDaniel
     Wildcard I: Paul “Big Show” Wight
     Wildcard II: Chris Barnes (Yes, bowling, it’s Wichita, what else is there to do?)
     Wildcard III: Frank and Dan Carney – what would watching football be without pizza and Pizza Hut. I can say with hyperbole that the NFL absolutely would not be the juggernaut it is today without Frank and Dan Carney, and that clealy puts the Shockers over the top. And if you don’t like it, we’ll sick Paul Wight on you, or lord help us, Dennis Rader.

125. 
     125: Perry said at 10:41 am on June 17th, 2009:

     UMass football, as Joe well knows, produced Milt Morin, a damn good tight end on the 60s Browns.

126. 
     126: Jim K. said at 10:42 am on June 17th, 2009:

     Gee, I come back after being away for 1 day and there’s two new posts with over 100 comments each. I thought Joe started new threads about Chief Wahoo…

127. 
     127: Chris M said at 10:49 am on June 17th, 2009:

     How about Wake Forest:

     Basketball: Tim Duncan or Chris Paul – your pick
     Baseball: 3 time All-Star Willard Marshall
     Football: 8 time All-Pro Bill George. Or, more recently Ricky Proehl
     Wild Card: Arnold Palmer

     I had to stretch this one a bit, b/c they haven’t had a football team in years and have only had one NFL player since the 30’s, but here’s St. John’s University:

     Basketball: Chris Mullin
     Baseball: John Franco or Frank Viola
     Football: Les Caywood
     Wildcards: Mike Francessa; Howie “Stump the” Schwab; Bob “Voice of the Yankees” Sheppard. Not to mention multiple hall of fame Basketball coaches

128. 
     128: Thomas said at 11:03 am on June 17th, 2009:

     Amherst College

     Football: Freddie Lee Scott, Class of ‘74. Inducted in College Football Hall of Fame in 2001. 262 catches, 4270 yards, 20 TDs in 10 years in the NFL.

     Baseball: John Cerutti, Class of ‘81. First round pick of the Toronto Blue Jays, pitched seven years in the Bigs with a 3.94 ERA. Recorded first Blue Jay win in SkyDome. The Toronto BWAA (that sounds a little funny, no?) named their award for the person who contributes most to the positive image of baseball after him.

     or

     Dan Duquette, Class of ‘80. Former GM of the Expos and Red Sox; two-time MLB Executive of the Year. Helped build 2004 Red Sox championship team. Famously said Roger Clemens was “in the twilight of his career.” (To be fair, it was only PEDs that extended the Rocket’s run.)

     or

     Neal Huntington, Class of ‘91. GM of the Pirates. Signed Rinku and Dinesh. Facilitated Manny Ramirez trade from Boston to LA.

     Basketball: Andrew Olson, Class of ‘08. Led team to three Final Fours. Two-time NABC National Player of the Year. Bob Cousy Award Finalist for nation’s best point guard, any division.

     Wild Card: Calvin Coolidge, Class of ‘95. 30th President.

     or

     Prince Albert II of Monaco, Class of ‘81. Not only the Head of State, but a five-time Olympian bobsledder.

     or

     Henry Ward Beecher, Class of ‘34. Extraordinarily popular preacher and abolitionist, nicknamed “The Most Famous Man in America.”

     Beat that, Williams!

129. 
     129: James said at 11:04 am on June 17th, 2009:

     Xavier

     Basketball – David West (or maybe James Posey or Brian Grant)
     Baseball – Jim Bunning
     Football (even though there isn’t a team anymore) – Danny Abramowicz (NFL ALl-Pro)
     Wild Card – Byron Larkin, all-time leading basketball scorer and brother of Barry…now Xavier basketball color commentator.

130. 
     130: Wes said at 11:09 am on June 17th, 2009:

     Coastal Carolina:

     Tyler Thigpen!

     And thats about it..

131. 
     131: Owen said at 11:10 am on June 17th, 2009:

     Pepperdine University

     Baseball: Mike Scott over Dan Haren
     Basketball: Dennis Johnson over Doug Christie
     Football: 1947 national scoring leader Darwin Horn
     Wild Cards: Marv Dunphy, Sean Rooney, Dain Blanton, Jason Gore, Katherine Hull, Terry Schroeder, Bob Ctvrtlik

     Texas Christian University

     Baseball: Jeff Zimmerman
     Basketball: Kurt Thomas
     Football: LDT, Sammy Baugh, Davey O’Brien, Bob Lilly
     Wild Cards: Jamie Dixon, Larry Foyt, Luke Wilson

     Navy

     Baseball: Former Astros owner John McMullen
     Basketball: The Admiral
     Football: Roger Staubach
     Wild Cards: Jimmy Carter, Chester Nimitz, John McCain, Ross Perot, etc.

     Army

     Baseball: Abner Doubleday, mythical inventor of the game
     Basketball: Coach K
     Football: Mr. Inside, Mr. Outside, Pete Dawkins
     Wild Cards: Ike (played football), U.S. Grant, dozens upon dozens of well-known military figures

132. 
     132: Richard D said at 11:19 am on June 17th, 2009:

     UNC:

     Basketball: Michael Jordan
     Football: Lawrence Taylor
     Baseball: Moonlight Graham, who graduated from Maryland but played baseball at Carolina
     Wild card: Mia Hamm

     Pretty stout

133. 
     133: Paul White said at 11:22 am on June 17th, 2009:

     “Yale (just so everybody else can feel superior):

     Baseball: Ron Darling (George H.W. Bush?)
     Basketball: Clyde Lovelette (or Chris Dudley)
     Football: Calvin Hill
     Wildcards: B.D. from Doonesbury, Walter Camp, Jodie Foster, Jennifer Beals, and Jeff Van Gundy”

     Sorry, no soap on Yale claiming Clyde Lovellette. He went to Kansas.

134. 
     134: Perry said at 11:23 am on June 17th, 2009:

     Colorado’s best wild card candidate might be performing now. Jenny Barringer was just named US Female Track Athlete of the Year, and holds the NCAA record in the 1500, 5K, indoor mile, indoor 3K, and indoor 5K. She’s an Academic All-American, too.

135. 
     135: Chris said at 11:27 am on June 17th, 2009:

     CLEMSON

     Football: Michael Dean Perry
     Basketball: Horace Grant
     Baseball: Jimmy Key
     Wild Cards: Jonathan Byrd (3-time PGA Tour winner), Gigi Fernandez (17 Grand Slam doubles titles)

136. 
     136: Michael D said at 11:39 am on June 17th, 2009:

     I almost officially despise OU, but they’ve had some serious athletes and somebody ought to take a crack:

     Football: Billy Sims. LeRoy Selmon.
     Basketball: Wayman Tisdale. Alvan Adams. Soon: Blake Griffin?
     Baseball: Dale Mitchell. Lindy McDaniel.
     Wild Card: Bart Conner, Olympic gold medal gymnast (also married to Nadia Comaneci)

     Huh. I thought it would be more impressive than that. As for wild cards, hard to top Barry Switzer and Billy Tubbs.

137. 
     137: Andy the Beerman said at 11:40 am on June 17th, 2009:

     OK, I know it’s a stretch but I’ll be a homer for San Diego State:

     Football: Marshall Faulk (Fred Dryer, Brian Sipe)
     Baseball: Tony Gwynn
     Basketball: Michael Cage (Tony Gwynn was a heck of a point guard)
     Wild Cards: Julie Kavner (Simpsons), Gregory Peck, Marion Ross (Mrs. Cunningham), Art Linkletter, Carl Weathers (Apollo Creed)

     I mean, seriously; Mrs. C, Apollo Creed, Marge Simpson and Gregory Peck (Atticus Finch), that’s some serious Wild Card right there.

138. 
     138: Bobby said at 11:43 am on June 17th, 2009:

     University of Nebraska

     Baseball: Darin Erstad (Alex Gordon, Ken Harvey haha)

     Football: Tommie Frazier or 1 of 3 Heisman guys Rogers, Rozier or Crouch

     Basketball: Eric Piatkowski (Tyrone Lue, Erik Strickland)

     WC: Rulon Grardner Gold Medalist
     WC: Tom Osborne

139. 
     139: Brad K said at 11:49 am on June 17th, 2009:

     Thanks for the Mizzou reminder Joe…the Cubs of the NCAA.

140. 
     140: A-Ron said at 11:49 am on June 17th, 2009:

     UMASS Amherst

     Basketball – Julius Erving
     Football – Greg Landry
     Baseball – Jeff Reardon

     WC I – well, Bill Cosby works.
     Or you could go

     Rick Pitino

141. 
     141: rich said at 11:50 am on June 17th, 2009:

     OREGON

     Basketball: Old-time hall of famers Howard Hobson and Lauren Gale. More recently, Terrell Brandon or Aaron Brooks.

     Baseball: Joe Gordon

     Football: Norm Van Brocklin or Dan Fouts. Maybe Mel Renfro.

     Wildcard: Steve Prefontaine and the rest of the track legends. Plus, John Madden, John McKay, Bill Bowerman, June Jones, John Robinson, Bruce Snyder, Bill Dellinger and Mike Nolan if you want coaches. Or Ahmad Rashad if you want someone to interview those coaches.

142. 
     142: JP said at 11:54 am on June 17th, 2009:

     Rice University:
     Football: Buddy Dial (Tommy Kramer, Larry Izzo)
     Baseball: Lance Berkman
     Basketball: Ricky Pierce
     Wild Card: Fred Hansen (Gold medalist and world record holder in 1964 Olympics)

143. 
     143: RB said at 12:02 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     I might bge hard pressed to find a footbakk player to add to the list but my small college has a couple of names of note;

     Southeastern Oklahoma State University

     baseball: Brett Butler
     basketball: Dennis Rodman

144. 
     144: Tim said at 12:18 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     PURDUE UNIVERSITY
     Football- Len Dawson/Bob Griese/Drew Brees
     Baseball- Moose Skowron
     Baseketball- Glenn “Big Dog” Robinson
     Wild Card- John Wooden/Ryan Newman

145. 
     145: Gavin said at 12:30 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     As a devoted Jayhawk, I cna’t believe I am going to say this, but how are Jackson Scholz and whichever Askren is the better wrestler not Wildcards for Mizzou?

146. 
     146: Harrison said at 12:39 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     If you don’t count Jeter for Michigan baseball, I’d prefer Charlie Gehringer over Larkin.

147. 
     147: Juancho said at 12:47 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     Somebody ought to come up with a list of Most Embarrassing Co-Alumni.

     I checked Wikipedia for KU, and the worst I could find were the already mentioned Don Johnson; General Frederick Funston, who committed atrocities in the US-Philippine war; the excessively right-wing (hey, I’m a conservative but there are limits) politician Phill Kline; the winner of “Survivor: Guatemala”; the former CEOs of both Chrysler and Ford (neither of whom did a good job, obviously); Jack Del Rio (didn’t play for KU but got his degree there); and the evil Bud Adams.

     Steve Jeltz, who hit .210 in an eight-year major-league career, played for KU.

     The lead singer and violinist of the rather pathetic rock band Kansas went to KU, where his dad was a professor, of all things. So did the drummer for Tool, the coolness of which I am unsure.

     I checked Fred Phelps, and thank God he never had anything to do with our school. His law degree is from Washburn.

     George Tiller (I oppose late-term abortion, but Tiller obviously did not deserve to be murdered) went to KU Med.

     Psycho killer Lowell Lee Andrews, who was hanged back in the ’60s for murdering his family, went to KU. He’s a character in “In Cold Blood.”

     Probably the best one, though, is Frank Harris, the notorious author of the Victorian pornographic “autobiographical” novel “My Life and Loves,” which was banned for decades. He went to KU in the 1870s. Let’s see any other school top that.

148. 
     148: Danny said at 12:49 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     “Baseball: Brian Bannister (or Randy Johnson, if you prefer)”

     haha.
     Awesome.

149. 
     149: Brent said at 12:57 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     David in Toledo at 122

     It would be a close call between THE OSU and USC, I would think.

     THE OSU: Football: Art Schlichter (gambling, kicked out of the NFL)
     USC: Football: OJ (nuff said)

     THE OSU: Basketball: Jim O’Brien era (NCAA violations galore)
     USC: The Tim Floyd era (lots of bad stuff and still finding out about it)

     THE OSU: Baseball: Well they suck at baseball, so not much to go on, how about Chuck Brinkman, who criminally impersonated a major league shortstop for about 5 years in the 70s.
     USC: Mark McGwire (suspected roider)

     THE OSU: Wildcard. Woody Hayes punching an opposing player and ending his coaching career
     USC: Wildcard. Reggie Bush’s professional career at USC

150. 
     150: Ohio's First and Finest said at 1:10 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     Ohio

     Football: Vince Costello
     Baseball: Mike Schmidt
     Basketball: Gary Trent
     Wild Card 1: Frank Baumholtz (first person to play 2 pro sports simultaneously)
     Wild Card 2: Media – Ritter Collett (Baseball HOF writer), Peter King, Thom Brenneman
     Wild Card 3: Marching 110

151. 
     151: Tim said at 1:14 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     Bowling Green State University

     Baseball: Orel Hershiser
     Football: Shawn Suisham???
     Basketball: Nate Richmond
     Wildcard: Scott Hamilton

152. 
     152: Craig said at 1:15 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     How about Dave Winfield for Minnesota? Guy was drafted for baseball, football and basketball.

153. 
     153: Chris said at 1:17 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     Has Vanderbilt done one of these (in the trivia question)? If so, which?

154. 
     154: Alex said at 1:18 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     why Steinbrenner in Ohio State? He grew up in Ohio, I know, but he went to Williams College in Mass.

155. 
     155: Chris said at 1:21 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     Alex — I think he went to grad school at OSU. I went to Williams, and as a Red Sox fan they can have him!

156. 
     156: Alex said at 1:25 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     I’ll do my alma mater, Columbia:

     Baseball: Lou Gehrig
     Football: Sid Luckman
     Basketball: pass
     Wildcard: Gary Cohen (Mets broadcaster)

157. 
     157: Joe said at 1:27 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     Sorry if someone has already done the Penn Quakers, but there are too many comments to read them all. Here is my stab:

     Basketball: Corky Calhoun (Chuck Daly coached Penn)
     Football: Hall of Famer Chuck Bednarik
     Baseball: I’m going with Doug Glanville because he now contributes to the NY Times
     Wildcard 1: Walter O’Malley (if you don’t like Glanville (or current Indian Mark DeRosa) for baseball)
     Wildcard 2: John Heisman (has some award named after him)
     Wildcard 3: Anita DeFrantz (prominent member of the USOC and IOC)
     Wildcard 4: Candice Bergen

158. 
     158: Alex said at 1:29 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     hard to believe no one did St. Johns yet:

     Baseball: Frank Viola
     Football: pass
     Basketball: Chris Mullin
     Wildcard: Bob Sheppard

159. 
     159: David said at 1:30 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     University of California, Berkeley
     Football – Tony Gonzalez
     Basketball – Jason Kidd
     Baseball – Jeff Kent
     Wild Card – Eric Schmidt (CEO Google) or Lee Steinberg (Sports Agent)

160. 
     160: Alex said at 1:34 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     oh, I missed the biggest Wildcard of them all for Columbia: Roone Arledge

161. 
     161: CB said at 1:35 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     Maryland’s wildcard has to be Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets.

162. 
     162: Breaker said at 1:35 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     Is it just me, or is there a “Minnesota I” and no “Minnesota II”?

163. 
     163: Pete said at 1:38 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     Mizzou’s “Big” Sports historically stink.

     However, things are looking better. Pinkel and Anderson are fine coaches. I just hope their recent successes are signs of things to come, and not just flukes based on a confusing attack (applies to both sports really) or a great player for said system (Chase Daniel).

164. 
     164: A-Ron said at 1:47 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     Oh and I don’t know if anyone noticed, but Joe broke his own rules putting Cheryl Miller has the USC basketball pick (unless he was poking fun at Reggie by calling him Cheryl) Obviously Reggie would be basketball selection.

     Cheryl is a great wild card though.

165. 
     165: Bearcatmark said at 1:47 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     University of Cincinnati

     Basketball: Oscar Robertson (there are plenty of options, this in unquestionable the only true choice)
     Football: Greg Cook (Brief NFL career, but could have been one of the great NFL QB’s of all time. He played his entire first year with an undiagnosed torn Rotator cuff. He still put up great numbers that season, before it really deteriorated and he never played again. I think the best current Bearcat in the NFL is Trent Cole.)
     Baseball: Sandy Koufax (Another tough one because Sandy was not there long and Kevin Youkilis is having an MVP type season, but Sandy was just too great)
     Wild Card: Urban Meyer (He was a defensive back at UC and now is the second best coach in college football…behind Brian Kelly at UC.)

166. 
     166: Pete said at 1:57 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     Maryland

     Basketball: Len Bias (This shouldn’t even be a question. Dixon and Francis are nothing compared to him)
     Football: Randy White
     Baseball: not sure
     Wildcard: Fred Funk, several PGA Tour wins including the Players
     Wildcard #2: Renaldo Nehemiah, 13 world records, one of the most dominant hurdlers of all time. Also has a Super Bowl Ring with the 49ers.

167. 
     167: Bearcatmark said at 2:11 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     A little more on Greg Cook. His rookie season in the NFL he won rookie of the year. He led the AFL is passing and set a record that has no one has come close to since throwing for 17.5 yards per attempt. He also set what was then a single game passing record throwing in NCAA football throwing for 554 yards in a game. Just a shame he was diagnosed so late and medical technology was not where it was. Paul Brown thought he would be one of the all time greats.

168. 
     168: Owen said at 2:19 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     You mean the Reggie Miller who went to UCLA? He led the Bruins to an NIT title in 1985.

169. 
     169: Chip said at 2:35 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     My alma mater of Virginia:

     Hoops: Ralph Sampson
     Football: Bill Dudley
     Baseball: Eppa Rixey is the only HOFer. Maybe Ryan Zimmerman? Mark Reynolds is having a nice year.
     Wildcard: None graduated, so I’ll combine Thomas Jefferson, Edgar Allan Poe and William Faulkner here.
     Wildcard #2: Katie Couric
     Wildcard #3: Stephen Malkmus
     Wildcard #4: Claudio Reyna

170. 
     170: Norm Cash Singers said at 2:44 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     A plea for the Spartans. Wildcard pick has to be James Caan – Brian Piccolo!!

171. 
     171: jimmy said at 2:45 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     Regarding your BCS trivia question, wouldnt the University of South Florida (member of the Big East) also be one of the correct answers?

172. 
     172: Perry said at 3:04 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     Steinbrenner got a masters degree at Ohio State and was a grad assistant football coach under Woody Hayes (and won a national championship).

     But I don’t think Barry Switzer ever attended Oklahoma. He has to count for Arkansas, if anywhere.

173. 
     173: JPO said at 3:05 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     Guy,

     Dixon beat his scoring record but does anybody seriously think he was, as the criteria suggests, “greater” than Bias? Dixon was a great college player, I adored him when he played for Maryland and even used to go to Wizards games just to see him and Blake, he was great. But come on, if you were drafting, and Dixon and Bias are 22y/o seniors at the same time, who are you taking?

     Carl Bernstein doesn’t have anything to do with sports, nor does Larry David (assistant to the traveling secretary, as clever as it is, aside). I just am not overwhelmed by any of the sports related choices for the wild card. I guess Boomer, maybe Van Pelt.

174. 
     174: Bill Merrell said at 3:11 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     Am I missing Missouri baseball:

     Phil Bradley

     or football for that matter, but..

175. 
     175: Josh in Boston said at 3:29 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     UMass Amherst -

     Basketball – Dr J
     Football – Greg Landry (1 time Pro Bowl QB for Detroit)
     Football (2) – Milt Morin (2 time Pro Bowl Tight End for Cleveland)
     Baseball – Jeff Reardon
     Baseball (2) – Mike Flanagan

     Wild Card – Brianna Scurry (Goalie for Women’s Olympic Soccer Team.

     Wild Cards – (Other) – Bill Cosby, Bill Pullman, Nathalie Cole

176. 
     176: Gorgeous Terry said at 3:51 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     Considering there have been like 8 or 10 independent entries for Columbia, I’m surprised that no one’s mentioned (as far as I know) Jack Kerouac, who played football there til he broke his leg as a freshman I believe.

177. 
     177: Guy McGuffin said at 3:52 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     If we’re going across the board at 22 years old, I might be inclined to take Joe Smith coming off a Naismith and a NBA All-Rookie campaign. I guess I just see greatness as based upon achievement and if I’m making the case for Len Bias I’m using words like potential, ability and talent.

     I originally selected Steve Francis because he has achieved more in the NBA than any other Terp. That was my basic criteria.

     But in my eyes Juan Dixon had achieved more at Maryland and that’s why I continue to argue for him. 3x First Team All-ACC, ACC POY his senior year. Consensus All-American. School’s all-time leader in points, 3 pointers and behind only Johnny Rhodes in steals. He scored more than Bias, won more than Bias, had more big games than Bias. Two Final Fours. A National Championship.

     For every inbound steal and reverse dunk with Len en route to 35 in the Dean Dome there’s Juan dropping 33 on Kansas in the Final Four.

     To me Dixon was always the third best NBA prospect on that team, but he was by far the greatest player.

178. 
     178: Rich said at 4:06 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     Football – Doug Flutie
     Basketball – Troy Bell
     Baseball – Tony Sanchez (#4 pick this year)
     Since we’re hockey school & not really baseball:
     Hockey – Brian Leetch
     WC 1 – Jerry York (all time winningest coach in NCAA Hockey)
     WC 2 – Mike Lupica
     WC 3 – Bob Ryan
     WC 4 – Elizabeth Hasselbeck (married to former BC QB)

179. 
     179: Buck said at 4:11 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     How about Jackson state

     baseball: Oil Can Boyd
     football: Walter Payten
     basketball: Lindsey hunter
     wildcard: Vivian Brown Track team captain (now on air talent at the weather channel)

     wildcard2: Dr. Rod Paige, Former Sec. of Education (and also former Jackson St. football coach)

180. 
     180: Jason said at 4:22 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     San Diego State:

     Football: Marshall Faulk
     Baseball: Tony Gwynn
     Basketball: Michael…Cage?
     Wildcard: ummm…Marcelo Balboa, Soccer

     Others: Joe Gibbs, Herm Edwards, Don Coryell (Coach), John Madden (Coach), Bud Black, Mark Grace, Stephen Strausburg, Greg Nettles, Carl Weathers (Apollo Creed)

181. 
     181: David in Toledo said at 4:48 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     University of Toledo

     Football — Chuck Ealey, quarterback 69-71: high school 30-0, college 35-0, Grey Cup MVP.
     Basketball — Steve Mix. Toledo born, NBA All-Star 1975.
     Baseball — Len Matuszek. Toledo born, replaced Pete Rose at first base on the 1984 Phillies, 2.000 postseason OPS.
     Wild card — a great wrestling program from Coach Joe Scalzo. 1971 NCAA heavyweight champ Greg Wojciechowski. Toledo born, “The Great Wojo.”

182. 
     182: Briggs said at 4:55 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     If you had to vote for just ONE of these as having the BEST COLLECTION of talent, I would have to vote for the school:

     - Whose baseball representative was the first athlete to letter in four sports for his college, was the first African-American Major League Baseball player of the modern era, who played in six World Series over his ten season career, who won the first Rookie of the Year Award, won an MVP award, is enshrined in the Hall of Fame, and has his number retired throughout baseball, not merely by the team he represented.

     - Whose basketball representative was twice named National College Player of the Year, brought three national titles home to his school while being named Most Outstanding Player of the tournament, was the first ever Naismith College Player of the Year, before going onto an NBA career where he scored more points than any man ever, in addition to six MVP awards and six World Championships.

     - Whose football representative won the Davey O’Brien Award for the nations top quarterback while at the school, finished number two in career passing yards in only two seasons as quarterback, and led his school to a Cotton Bowl win before an NFL career that included being the number one overall pick the year he was drafted, finished as that team’s all-time passing leader, and in between was selected to six Pro Bowls, won three Super Bowls, and was once selected as Super Bowl MVP.

     And whose wild-cards include:

     - A man that won the NCAA singles title while representing the college, who was the top men’s tennis player in the world for 160 consecutive weeks, and a total of 268 weeks, won eight Grand Slam singles titles and two doubles titles, winning on all four surfaces.

     - A woman that was voted the “Top Woman Collegiate Athlete of the Past 25 Years” by the 976 NCAA member schools, who won medals in track and field events at four Olympic Games including three gold medals, and still holds the world record for the women’s heptathlon.

     And no, I did not attend UCLA.

183. 
     183: Michael said at 5:06 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     Purdue

     Football: Bob Griese, led Purdue to the 1967 Rosebowl over USC and the Miami Dolphins to the only undefeated season in NFL History
     Baseball: Bill Skowron, Was 1b for the Yankees 1954-1962
     Basketball: John Wooden, led Boilers to 1932 National Championship
     Wildcard: Neil Armstrong, was in the All American Marching Band

184. 
     184: Mark W. said at 5:21 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     Sandy Koufax also took classes at Columbia (in Architecture) while with the Brooklyn Dodgers in the mid-’50s. The story that is told is that he had to inform the prof that he might miss a class or two in October because his baseball team was in the World Series (‘55 & ‘56). Supposedly, the prof had no idea of Koufax’ other profession at the time. Wiki also says he left the clubhouse celebration after the 7th game of ‘55 Series to make it to an evening class…That sounds like Sandy, “The Ghost”.

185. 
     185: Olentangy said at 5:38 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     Extremely ironic football wild card for Ohio State- Bo Schembechler

186. 
     186: s1c said at 5:43 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     Arkansas – Cliff Lee? How about Kevin McReynolds. The Moncreif is pretty easy pick but the Football I think it is tough to pick between Hampton (HOF) and Alworth.

187. 
     187: Quinn said at 5:54 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     @Timmaaayyy

     I would put in Paul Robeson for football, or possibly Wild Card

     You should also add Sonny Werblin (Jets founder) for football or WildCard

188. 
     188: Big Country said at 6:04 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     UNC has already had one attempt, but it needs correcting:
     Basketball: Jordan
     Football: Lawrence Taylor
     Baseball: Brian Roberts (Surhoff, really?)
     Wildcard: Peter Gammons

189. 
     189: Damon Rutherford said at 6:26 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     > PURDUE UNIVERSITY
     > Football- Len Dawson/Bob Griese/Drew Brees
     > Baseball- Moose Skowron
     > Baseketball- Glenn “Big Dog” Robinson
     > Wild Card- John Wooden/Ryan Newman

     Purdue football also has Rod Woodson and Mike Alstott. Take your pick between them and the three above.

     Purdue baseball has historically been weak. I like Neil Armstrong as the Wild Card. Him or Orville Redenbacher!

190. 
     190: electric said at 6:49 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     What’s the record for comments on one of Joe’s posts?

191. 
     191: Chris said at 6:55 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     My Alma Mater – Duke

     Basketball: Lots to choose from, but famously not as many stellar pro careers. It’s gotta be Grant Hill, though. Were it not for the injuries, I think we’d be talking about Grant Hill as the ‘heir’ to MJ, not Kobe.
     Football: Sonny Jurgensen. Yes, Duke actually has a represntative in the Pro Football Hall of Fame!
     Baseball: Two-sport star Dick Groat. 1960 NL MVP and World Series Champion (thanks, Maz). Groat was actually a two-time basketball All-American for the Devils, and has his #10 hanging in the rafters of Cameron Indoor.
     Wildcard: Impossible to pick anyone but Coach K, right? The guy is an institution and soon-to-be the winningest college coach of all-time.

192. 
     192: dq said at 7:03 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     stanford’s basketball should be Hank Luisetti, ist college superstar and inventor of 1 hand shot

     add Elway, Mussina and Tiger and they match up pretty well

193. 
     193: Geoff said at 7:22 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     I’m a Syracuse grad, and I’ll throw in some more Wild Cards (non-broadcaster division):

     - Lou Reed of the Velvet Underground
     - Al Davis
     - Vanessa Williams
     - Donovan McNabb (who played some garbage-time basketball his first two years of college, too)

194. 
     194: A Jolly Bengali said at 7:31 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     A submission for Pitt:

     Basketball: Don Hennon
     Football: Tony Dorsett
     Baseball: Ken Macha
     Wildcard: John Woodruff (African American sprinter who won a Gold medal in the 800m at the 1936 Berlin Olympics – the “Nazi” games that destroyed Hitler’s notion of Aryan superiority)

     Other possibilities in basketball: Charles Smith, Billy Knight, Sean Miller, Brandin Knight, Jerome ’send it in’ Lane

     Other possibilities in football: Dan Marino, Mike Ditka, Hugh Green, Marshall Goldberg, Bill Fralic, Curtis Martin, Larry Fitzgerald

195. 
     195: Francis X. said at 8:07 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     Kent State
     Basketball: Antonio Gates (never played football in college)
     Football: Jack Lambert, Lou Holtz
     Baseball: Thurman Munson
     Wildcards and others: Ben Curtis (British Open winner), Hal McCoy (writer), Don King (promoter), Arsenio Hall (Coming to America), Josh Cribbs (Browns), James Harrison (Steelers), Dustin Hermanson, Steve Stone, Joe Walsh (The Eagles)

     Cleveland State
     Basketball: Franklin Edwards (76ers), John McLendon (coach)
     Football: J’Nathan Bullock (basketball player, signed with N.Y. Jets as undrafted free agent)
     Baseball: Jerry Dybzinski (Indians)
     Wildcards and others: Matt Ghaffari (Olympic medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling), Tim Russert (Bills fan), Manute Bol(nearly played in mid-80s, always on campus), Clinton Smith (Warriors), Ali Kazemaini (MISL Rookie of the Year)

196. 
     196: Rod said at 8:12 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     Indiana football should be Antwaan Randle El or Anthony Thompson who finished 2nd to Andre Ware in the Heisman in 1989.

     Rusty LaRue is my guy for Wake Forest in all three sports where he was the Wake QB; Wake shortstop; and Wake 3-point shooter all at once during his collegiate career.

197. 
     197: Mark Bledsoe said at 8:38 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     Oklahoma State Basketball, Bob Kurland first big man in college, they created the goaltending rule because of his dominance.
     By the way, Garth Brooks was a javelin thrower in college. But I would use John Smith, wrestler, 2 time NCAA Champ, 4 Time World Champ, and 2 time Olympic Gold Medalist, as well as OSU’s current head coach

198. 
     198: Pedro Borbon's Mighty Arm said at 9:19 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     There’s already been a few entries for my alma mater, the University of Kentucky…here’s my take, following Joe’s guidelines of players for the first 3 slots:

     Basketball: Dan Issel (No arguments to the contrary can be seriously considered; HOFer; still the all-time career scoring leader in the storied history of UK men’s BB; held the single-game record for almost 39 yrs until broken this season; at his pro retirement ranked 4th in combined ABA/NBA career scoring with over 27k points; still 7th in that category; habitually under-appreciated in the discussion of all-time greats)

     Football: George Blanda (you could argue Babe Parilli, or to a lesser extent Art Still or Tim Couch)

     Baseball: Brandon Webb

     Wildcard: Coach Adolph Rupp

     Wildcard first runner-up: Cawood Ledford, the legendary Voice of the Wildcats

     Wildcard honorable mentions (non-men’s-basketball division, too many to choose from there): J.B. Holmes, Gay Brewer (winner of the ’67 Masters); Story Musgrave (shuttle astronaut); Jenny Hansen (gymnast); Valerie Still (women’s BB, all-time leading non-gender-specific scorer in UK history)……sure I’m omitting many worthy others

     No wildcard for you: Ashley Judd. Yeah, she’s hot, and I’m heterosexual and proud of it, but isn’t everybody just about sick of her by now?……how about some support for the football team, Ash? She couldn’t find Commonwealth Stadium with Mapquest

199. 
     199: Anthony Z said at 9:42 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     Villanova

     Late to the party; somebody beat me to my alma mater but:

     Wildcard: Jim Croce (singer songwriter)

200. 
     200: Spud said at 9:43 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     200th?

     How about Washington State

     Basketball: Craig Ehlo or James Donaldson
     Baseball: John Olerud
     Football: Mel Hein or Drew Bledsoe
     Wild card: Mark Hendrickson (played in NBA and MLB)

201. 
     201: Bill said at 10:22 pm on June 17th, 2009:

     Duke:

     Someone else already got it right, but a suggestion:

     Wildcard: the 2006 Mens Lacrosse team.

202. 
     202: Jack said at 12:33 am on June 18th, 2009:

     “Somebody ought to come up with a list of Most Embarrassing Co-Alumni. ”

     For my alumnus, Hillsdale College (yep), it would be none other than Erik Prince, co-founder of Blackwater.

     I challenge any school to beat that embarrassment. Seriously, I will bet you any money that it cannot be done (unless, of course, you went to college with Hitler).

203. 
     203: Jack said at 12:34 am on June 18th, 2009:

     *Er, for my “alma mater.” Can’t spell/ think.

204. 
     204: Owen said at 5:19 am on June 18th, 2009:

     Other Duke wild cards: Tricky Dick (got his law degree there), Libby Dole, Obama’s personal aide Reggie Love (played basketball and football at Duke), Ken Starr, Ron Paul, Melinda Gates, Aubrey McClendon, John Cornwell (inventor of the beer-launching fridge), MLS player Jay Heaps (also played basketball)

205. 
     205: Aaron said at 5:32 am on June 18th, 2009:

     here’s a fun little one:

     University of Louisiana-Lafayette:

     Baseball: Ron Guidry
     Football: Jake Delhomme/Brian Mitchell
     Basketball: Andrew Toney (2x NBA All-Star)
     Wildcard: Richard Simmons

206. 
     206: RampantRedsFan said at 6:14 am on June 18th, 2009:

     Steinbrenner for OSU? He didn’t even play sports for OSU, maybe use him as a wildcard: he was a GA for the football team.

207. 
     207: Brian In Topeka said at 7:03 am on June 18th, 2009:

     Kansas State

     Baseball- Elden Auker or John Billings? Hopefully AJ Morris becomes something and we can have a better offering
     Football- Lynn Dickey, Terrance Newman
     Basketball- Michael Beasley, Mitch Richmond, Rolando Blackmon
     Wildcard- Snyder and the greatest turnaround in football history

208. 
     208: Kanka said at 7:25 am on June 18th, 2009:

     Piping in for Notre Dame:

     Cap Anson is another possibility in baseball, especially with Yaz’ eligibility in doubt. (From what I understand, he played on the freshman team, then was drafted soon thereafter.)

     Wildcard 3: Austin Carr
     Wildcard 4: Louis Sockalexis

209. 
     209: stephen said at 8:00 am on June 18th, 2009:

     I forgot to do my law school, Baylor University. Surprisingly good. Maybe I should’ve gone to more games.

     Football – Mike Singletary
     Basketball – Patrick Dennehy (too soon?)… ok, Vinnie “Microwave” Johnson
     Baseball – Hall of Famer Ted Lyons
     Wild Card – Michael Johnson

210. 
     210: Bob Kraus said at 8:07 am on June 18th, 2009:

     University of Cincinnati

     Basketball – Oscar Robinson
     Football – Urban Meyer (Brig Owens)
     Baseball – Sandy Koufax (Kevin Youkilis)
     Wildcard – Tony Trabert – Tennis
     Rich Franklin – Mixed Martial Arts

211. 
     211: Dan said at 8:21 am on June 18th, 2009:

     Why does Michigan get credit for Jeter? I know he used potential attendance at Michigan to leverage a higher signing bonus (and thus enabling the Yankees to sign him – deep six-ing the theory that Jeter is proof positive that the Yankees did not buy their championships of the late 90’s), but I don’t think he ever stepped on campus there.

     I’d love to see a Boston College list (not pretty), but I do not recognize any of the thirty-odd (mostly early 20th century) BC baseball players that made the Majors. I’m also not sure how you choose between Michael Adams and Dana Barros.

212. 
     212: Michael said at 8:30 am on June 18th, 2009:

     Boston University

     Football — Billy Brooks
     Baseball — Harry Agganis
     Basketball — Raja Bell (transferred to FIU, but still…)
     Wild Card — Chris Drury/Martin Luther King

     Harder considering there’s no longer a baseball or football team, but still a pretty good list.

213. 
     213: Tito Landrum said at 8:35 am on June 18th, 2009:

     University of Maryland
     to add to the entry above…

     The Wildcard from the Univ. of MD should be none other than Wire creator David Simon. Hands Down.

214. 
     214: JCT said at 9:22 am on June 18th, 2009:

     SMS

     Basketball – Winston Garland

     Baseball – Ryan Howard

     Wildcard – Jackie Stiles – The Pistol Pete of Women’s BB

     Wildcard – John Goodman – The Babe

     Wildcard – Kathleen Turner – For both Body Heat and Chandlers Father

     Wildcard – David Glass – Royals really do suck

215. 
     215: Ben said at 9:45 am on June 18th, 2009:

     UW Huskies:

     Baseball — Tim Lincecum
     Football — Warren Moon
     Basketball — Brandon Roy
     Wild Card — Bruce Lee (moved to US to attend Washington, proceeded to teach karate to Kareem)

     And how bout Santa Clara:

     Baseball — Randy Winn
     Football — Brent Jones
     Basketball — Steve Nash
     Wild Card — Brandi Chastain

216. 
     216: Owen said at 9:52 am on June 18th, 2009:

     My dad and grandfather’s alma mater, Dartmouth College:

     Baseball: Brad Ausmus/Red Rolfe/Mike Remlinger
     Basketball: Ric Bucher/Russ Granik
     Football: NFL Hall of Famer Reggie Williams
     Wild Cards: Daniel Webster, Michael Corleone, Sandy Alderson, Charles Pillsbury, Meryl Streep, Michael Moriarty, Mr. Rogers, Salmon P. Chase, Tim Geithner, Henry Paulson, and your winner, Dr. Seuss

217. 
     217: JeffSol said at 10:05 am on June 18th, 2009:

     Since I’ve seen Columbia and Yale, I guess I’ll do my alma mater, Dartmouth:

     Football — Reggie Williams (or Nick Lowery)
     Baseball — Red Rolfe (or Brad Ausmus, who lived upstairs from me freshman year and was a great athlete — he could unk back then at 5′ 11″)
     Basketball — Rudy LaRusso
     Wild Card (Sports) – Sandy Alderson, Connie Britton (Coach’s wife on Friday Night Lights), Adam Nelson (2 time Olympic shot put medal winner), Dan Rydell (Sports Night Anchor)
     Wild Card (Other) – Chris Miller (author of Animal House), Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss), Daniel Webster, Michael Corleone

218. 
     218: Brian said at 10:28 am on June 18th, 2009:

     aw2pp, I like your Vanderbilt list. I don’t have a great knowledge of sports alumni, but here are a few others to consider.

     Football – Jay Cutler
     I expect in 5 years he’ll definitely be the top of the football list, but at the moment we should consider players with longer careers.
     Shelton Quarles, LB, 10 years with TB, 1 pro bowl and 1 super bowl
     Corey Chavous, S, 11 years with Ariz/Min/StL, 1 pro bowl

     Basketball – Will Perdue
     I think he wins hands down. Not many players that have been a part of championship teams as him.

     Baseball – (ask again in a few years… I am not sure David Price or Pedro Alvarez have the body of work to edge out… Scott Sanderson or Joey Cora)
     You’re right, Price is still all potential. Can we consider Mark Prior? He pitched his freshman year at Vandy before transferring to USC.

     Wildcard… Grantland Rice (I’ll take him over Brandt Sedenker, 2007 PGA ROY)
     I think Buster Olney needs to be added to the wild card list. Since I mentioned Buster, I feel obligated to also mention Skip Bayless.

219. 
     219: JPO said at 10:46 am on June 18th, 2009:

     Guy,

     I think we can agree that the difference between Bias, Dixon, and Francis really depends on the definitional approach. Who achieved the most at Maryland? Clearly Dixon. Who was the greatest talent and player at Maryland? I think Bias because he was achieving what he did with less of a supporting cast. Particularly during the 01/02 season, teams had to pay so much attention to Wilcox and Baxter that Blake and Dixon had a lot of free room in the mid to long range area. There’s obviously an argument to be made for Dixon though as the greatest, and Bias’s record is obfuscated by the question mark that hangs over what might have been in the NBA. If your criteria is best NBA career, then I’m not sure there’s much dispute over Francis. The fun of this to some degree is figuring out what we mean by greatest.

     Fred Funk’s a good wildcard too, he coached at MD but I didn’t know he graduated from there.

220. 
     220: Tom from Tuscaloosa said at 1:24 pm on June 18th, 2009:

     Please delete Latrell Sprewell as the Crimson Tide’s basketball representative. He was probably the third best basketball player on that team, behind Robert Horry and Hollywood Robinson. He may ultimately have been the best all-around NBA player from the University, but I would go with Reginald “Mule” King, or Derrick McKey, or Leon Douglas, or Wendell Hudson, or Mo Williams, or Gerald Wallace, or almost anyone besides Latrell.

     As for the other sports, like Joe points out, it is a “pick ‘em” for football. Most people don’t know who Joe Sewell was, but he played second base for the Yankees during the Ruth-Gehrig years, and NEVER struck out. 114 strikeouts in fourteen full seasons in the Show, with several seasons in which he struck out only three or four times. It does strike me as odd that there is no defining baseball player more contemporary than Sewell. David Magadan was a wonderful hitter who hit over .400 in college ball, but was just a middling pro.

221. 
     221: Lynn said at 3:37 pm on June 18th, 2009:

     Illinois

     Football Red Grange or Dick Butkus

     Basketball Nick Anderson or Derek Harper

     Baseball Ken Holtzman

     Wildcard: Track & Field – Bob Richards

     Wildcard: a generally good sport – Hugh Heffner

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223. 
     223: Dave said at 7:20 pm on June 18th, 2009:

     Texas Tech did not play in a BCS bowl last year…they ended up in the Cotton Bowl.

224. 
     224: Johnny K said at 8:26 pm on June 18th, 2009:

     Southern Miss

     Basketball: Clarence Weatherspoon
     Football: Brett Favre
     Baseball: Kevin Young
     Wildcard I: Courtney Blades, first softball pitcher to record over 600 strikeouts in a season
     Wildcard II: Jimmy Buffett, only singer I know to rename stadiums and get kicked out of nba games
     Wildcard III: Ray Guy (punters can’t count as football players, but if they do, then USM has had two football players that were the best at their positions)

225. 
     225: greebs said at 1:35 pm on June 19th, 2009:

     A few others have politely said this, but I’m going all caps on it because it’s that much of an oversight:

     NO WAY SHOULD IAN KINSLER BE AHEAD OF DAVE WINFIELD FOR MINNESOTA. DAVE WINFIELD SHOULD BE THERE FOR BASEBALL NO DOUBT!!!

     I say this as someone born and raised in California and NOT a Padres or Yankees fan but man, nobody was better than Winfield in his prime and Kinsler is in his third year, maybe.

     Joe, say it ain’t so.

     Editor’s note: It ain’t so. You confused Missouri with Minnesota.

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227. 
     227: DJ said at 11:36 am on June 20th, 2009:

     you’d have to have the two JJ’s (Jimmy and Jerry) and Switzer right there with Alworth for Arkansas football and I’d rank Kevin McReynolds AND Jeff King ahead of Cliff Lee at this point Joe.

228. 
     228: Juancho said at 1:19 pm on June 20th, 2009:

     I think KU has every other school in the country beat. We have the inventor of basketball and one of the co-inventors of pornography. Imagine how many of this blog’s readers are in debt to our university for their only sources of entertainment between about mid-January to late March.

229. 
     229: John said at 9:49 am on June 24th, 2009:

     Brad Lidge went to Notre Dame so he could qualify for baseball. Also maybe Jeff Samardzija as a wildcard for being a two sport star.

230. 
     230: DK said at 7:13 pm on June 24th, 2009:

     Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

     Football – John Madden
     Basketball – absolutely nobody
     Baseball – Ozzie Smith

     Wildcard: “Weird Al” Yankovic & Danny Gans

231. 
     231: Zach said at 2:19 pm on June 26th, 2009:

     Ohio University

     Football – Dave Zastudil (wow)
     Basketball – Gary Trent
     Baseball – Mike Schmidt
     Wildcard – Paul Newman, Matt Lauer, Peter King, Thom Brennaman, Frank Baumholtz, Arsenio Hall

232. 
     232: Shayne said at 7:49 am on July 1st, 2009:

     For the Minnesota wildcard, you HAVE to lead off with Neal Broten

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