Friday Night Lights’ Boobie Miles and Oklahoma Sooner Marcus Dupree have quite the similarities when it comes to their football glory. Boobie Miles and his Uncle L.V. had dreams of Boobie turning professional and being a highly paid running back in the NFL. Marcus Dupree had similar goals and dreams as the media, during his college career, was making him out to be the best to ever play the game. In his high school days Boobie suffered a sickening blow to his knee that set back his dreams of playing in the pros. Boobie struggled to get back onto his feet; his Uncle L.V. was the only one that could lift Boobie’s spirits about playing in the NFL. Marcus Dupree, a standout high school football player from Mississippi was recruited by the University of Oklahoma and the University of Texas on a football scholarship. Dupree signed his letter of intent to join the Oklahoma Sooners after a brilliant high school career that included 87 touchdowns and 7,355 yards; he was simply the best running back to come out of high school ever (Bissinger 1). However, things changed quickly during his sophomore year at Oklahoma. Dupree told his Coach Barry Switzer that he had a dream he would tear up his knee in that day’s game but Barry didn’t care; he played. He ended up tearing every ligament in his knee that day, season over, career in jeopardy.…
George Steinbrenner is most famously known as one of the most successful sport owners in American sports history. On July 4th, 1930 Steinbrenner was born in Rocky River, Ohio (Nelson, 2013). His two parents, Henry George Steinbrenner II and Rita raised him in an upper middle class lifestyle in Cleveland. He dedicates most of his success to both of them. At a young age, George had to learn that his father refused to allow him to accept failure, and he was pushed to succeed in all aspects of life. George attended Culver Military Academy in Indiana, graduating in 1948. He was later awarded a Bachelor’s degree from Williams College in Massachusetts in 1952, where he was an average student, who was a hurdler like his father on the track-and-field team, halfback on the football team, and sports editor of the student newspaper (Nelson, 2013). From this, it is quickly seen that George possessed a strong work ethic and was willing to go the extra mile to succeed. Although George was an average student he was quite active when it came to his extra-curricular life.…
Walter Ray Allen, Jr. is a professional basketball player who currently plays for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was born on July 20, 1975. He formerly played for the Milwaukee Bucks, Seattle SuperSonics, and Boston Celtics of the NBA. In college, he was a member of the University of Connecticut Huskies. One of the most accurate 3-point and free throw shooters in NBA history, he is a ten-time NBA All-Star, and has won two NBA championships, as well as a Olympic gold medal as a member of the 2000 United States men's basketball team. Allen has acted in two films, including a lead role in the 1998 Spike Lee film He Got Game. Allen is the NBA's all-time leader both in three-point field goals made and attempted in the regular season as well as the NBA's all-time leader in three-point field goals made in the postseason. Allen rejected a two-year; $12 million offer to return to the Boston Celtics and accepted a three-year deal with the Miami Heat, who was limited to their mid-level exception amount of slightly more than $3 million per season. During Allen's first season with the Miami Heat, he averaged 10.9 points per game and made 88.6% of his free throws while playing an average of 25.8 minutes per game. On April 25, 2013, while playing Milwaukee in Game 3 of the first round of the playoffs, Allen made his 322nd career three-pointer in the playoffs, which broke Reggie Miller's record for most three-pointers made in NBA playoff history. In Game 6 of the 2013 NBA Finals on June 18, Allen made a game-tying three-point shot with 5.2 seconds left in the fourth quarter. Having rallied from a 10-point deficit at the end of the third quarter, the Heat won in overtime 103-100 over the San Antonio Spurs and forced a seventh game in the series. With the Heat leading 101-100, Allen stole the ball from Manu Ginobili under the Spurs' basket and drew a foul with 1.9 seconds remaining in the overtime period. Allen made both ensuing free throws…
During the after-party following Super Bowl XXIV in Atlanta, Georgia, Lewis's friends Joseph Sweeting and Reginald Oakley allegedly got into a fight with Richard Lollar and Jacinth Baker near the Cobalt nightclub in upscale Buckhead, Georgia. Lollar and Baker were stabbed to death in the fracas. Lewis, Sweeting, and Oakley were charged with six counts of murder. He was jailed in Atlanta before posting bond. He was allowed to return to his home in Maryland.…
The Rookie of the Year Award became a national honor in 1947; Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers' second baseman, won the inaugural award. One award was presented for both leagues in 1947 and 1948, since 1949, the honor has been given to one player each in the National and American League. The award was renamed the Jackie Robinson Award in July 1987, 40 years after Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color line. Of the 128 players named Rookie of the Year, 14 have been elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame Jackie Robinson, five American League players, and eight others from the National…
Once he was finished with high school he earned a scholarship from Southern Mississippi which was the only scholarship offered to him. During his freshman year he started the season as a seventh string quarterback. Favre looked to take over the starting position in the first half of the third game. Although suffering a hangover he led the team to a comeback win. In his third season with the Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles Favre upset the 6th ranked Florida State Seminoles. Brett Favre threw the game winning pass with just 23 seconds left as he put up a six and a half minute drive. Just before Brett Favre’s senior year start he had one of the scariest things happen in his life. Brett Favre lost control of his car going around a turn near his house. His car flipped three times and finally stopped resting on a tree. One of Brett’s brothers busted the window out and was taken to a hospital on an ambulance. On the ride to the hospital Favre just kept asking his mom if he will ever be able to play football again. Favre had to get emergency surgery and the doctors removed thirty inches of his intestines. Favre then hosted a comeback win over the Alabama Rolling Tide. After the game Alabama Head coach Gene Stallings said “You can call it a miracle or a legend or whatever you want. I just know on that day Brett Favre was larger than life.” At the end of Favre’s career at Southern Mississippi he holds a bunch of records and earned a…
1. “Primetime” Deion Sanders struggled as a child witch drove him to be the Hall Of Fame Athlete he is today!…
Like any other person that is famous, football players can also receive awards. Teague won several awards. In high school, he was recognized as All-Midstate as a junior. He was selected MVP of Toyota All-Star Classic. Teague was named Class 4A Tennessee Mr. Football, Gatorade Tennessee Football Player of the Year in 2008, named in Knoxville News-Sentinel’s Top 20 Prospects in Tennessee list following the 2008 season,…
The oldest of three sons, Tillman excelled at football in high school. He helped lead Leland High School to the Central Coast Division I Football Championship. Tillman then went to Arizona State University on a football…
One is undeniable, his determination to become one of the best football players that he could be. After being told in high school that he was too little to ever play football, Tillman worked hard and through determination became a huge part of his high school football team and later earned a scholarship to Arizona State University. In college, it was said that what Tillman lacked in size and physical ability he made up and exceeded with intensity ("Pat Tillman Foundation"). Pat worked hard in the offseason trying to keep his mind and body moving in the right direction so he could secure his spot when the football season started. His determination and hard work paid off when he got a starting spot as a safety for the Arizona Cardinals (Tillman 39). Although a large amount of determination went into football, Tillman’s determination went far beyond the…
Shawn Grim earned a scholarship for community college called Pikesville, he beat the stereotype of his town, family, and school and attended college briefly, eventually he needed to drop out because he could no longer afford to go and could not handle the stress of keeping his grades up. But he still made history in his family and was a football star. Likewise, Rudy Ruettiger attended a major college, which was Notre Dame. He also beat the odds with his family and attended the college after not being accepted into Notre Dame after applying 3 times, but he brought his grades up and worked out an insane amount so he could go to Notre and Dame and play football there and pushed everyone's doubts to the side. Nonetheless, Rudy and Shawn both made it to college in their own ways, but used everyone’s doubts as a motivation to keep pushing…
It was tough to find people like him, most of the community was whitewashed, when virtually 6 african americans attended the school, They were all from New York, thought he was from the Bronx moreover thought he liked to play basketball, even though he was short he enjoyed to play football.…
If a football player is trying out for a team and he knows he is not very good at caching the ball, the player will work extra hard to have a speed advantage over the other players so that he can still draw the attention of the coaches. Liu not only believed that he was inferior to whites but that he deficient to every race: "I believed that I lacked the connections, the wealth, the experience, the sophistication that so many of my classmates seemed to have"(151). Liu saw the power that whites have in this country, and as Liu began to blend into white, middle-class America, he saw that "[he] was actually beginning to make it'." Liu's acceptance to Yale led to many other privileged experiences. "Extracurriculars opened the door to an alumni internship, which brought [him] to Capital Hill, which led to a job and a life in Washington after commencement" (151). By almost any standards of American society, Liu would be considered elite and one of the…
Dr. Condoleezza “Condi” Rice was born on November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama. She is the only child her parent’s name are Angelena and John Wesley Rice. Both parents are educated; her mother was a teacher while her father was a minister and a football coach. Dr. Rice learned to play the piano at an early age she also learned to speak French. The father moved the family up to Denver because of job placement. Condi graduated at the age of 15 from St. Mary Academy High School with a 4.00 GPA. She started college at the University of Denver and graduated at the age of 19 with a Bachelor in Political Science. She attended the University of Notre Dame and received her master in 1975. Condi being an over-achiever went back to get her doctoral degree from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver. She accomplished all of this before the age of 27.…
Howard’s parents died when he was still a child; he inherited a considerable part of his father’s million dollar fortune. Howard 's goals as a child were to become the best golfer, the best pilot, and the best movie producer. Despite the fact that he attended great schools, he never got a diploma. His father arranged for him to attend math and engineering classes at the California Institute of Technology. Then he enrolled in the now-called Rice University.…