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Poll famous alumni: Name the either best or most famous alumni of your alma mater in four categories:

Posted by musubi Jun 16 '09, 10:25

Football
Baseball
Basketball
Wildcard (your choice)

I think I'm going with:
Football: Marcus Allen
Baseball: Tom Seaver (tho Randy Johnson....)
Basketball: Cheryl Miller (maybe Lisa Leslie or Bill Sharman)
Wildcard (Astronauts): Neil Armstrong

Responses:

none, none, Patrick Ewing/Dikembe Mutombo/Alonzo Mourning, Bill Clinton. -- nm - loosilu Jun 16, 10:46
Wildcard: Danny Glover and Willie Brown -- nm - Stacy Jun 16, 10:43
Michael Mitchell, Mike Schmidt, Brandon Hunter, Paul Newman. -- nm - Max Jun 16, 10:37
n/a. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 16, 10:35
hmm. Football: Franco Harris. Basketball: Jack Ham. Baseball: Mike Scioscia. Wildcard: Tom Ridge. -- nm - Don Homer Jun 16, 10:35 1
- Um, obviously Jack Ham is football. I couldn't decide. Basketball: I guess Calvin Booth. -- nm - Don Homer Jun 16, 10:39
Linus Pauling. 2 Nobel Prizes. Suck it. -- nm - Mop (235 lbs) Jun 16, 10:35 2
- He also won the Heisman at age 90, the Congressional Medal of Honor for inventing the Internet, and wrestled Hemingway to a draw. -- nm - Mop (235 lbs) Jun 16, 10:40 1
  - Chuck Norris still kicked his ass, so there. -- nm - Subversive Jun 16, 10:46
Football: Darren Sharper, Baseball: Vic Raschi? Chris Ray?, Basketball: Brant Weidner, Wildcard: Thomas Jefferson -- nm - Dano Jun 16, 10:33 3
- love your wild card. -- nm - loosilu Jun 16, 10:49
- Sharper? No kidding, I didn't know he went there. (nm) - musubi Jun 16, 10:41 1
  - It's actually a good football school for I-AA, er FCS. Also looks like it produces quite a few coaches. -- nm - Dano Jun 16, 10:45
William Perry, Jimmy Key, Horace Grant, Strom Thurmond. - nubby Jun 16, 10:32 1
- Horace Grant! Loved that dude. My goggle-wearing brother. -- nm - TFox Jun 16, 10:34
Boomer Esiason, Eric Milton, Len Bias, Fred Funk/ Sergey Brin -- nm - MDH Jun 16, 10:31
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  - Question about your school - MDH Jun 16, 10:35 20
    - laughing. "In Connecticut" is well known euphemism for Yale. -- nm - loosilu Jun 16, 10:47
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      - I'm not sure that feeling you have to hide your school is any less pretentious -- nm - znufrii Jun 16, 10:43 12
        
        no, he's right, I have the same problem. some people react badly. -- nm - loosilu Jun 16, 10:48
        
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        I don't think "Yale" is pretentious at all. It's something to be proud of. However... - musubi Jun 16, 10:50 9
        
        My roommate was a professor at a school in Connecticut. - znufrii Jun 16, 10:53
        
        They have to clutch to the THE because "Ohio" belongs to OU. -- nm - Max Jun 16, 10:52
        
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        "some school in New Haven yo've probably never heard of..." -- nm - znufrii Jun 16, 10:55 1
        
        It's called Shut Your Face U. -- nm - Max Jun 16, 10:55
        
        Well, if phrased that way, that's fair enough. - musubi Jun 16, 10:53
        
        what, I sometimes say "I went to college in DC." Is that pretentious? -- nm - loosilu Jun 16, 10:50 2
        
        Why not just say, "Georgetown". - musubi Jun 16, 10:51 1
        
        because often there's no need, if I'm just saying I've lived here before. And many people have bad reactions. Same with Cornell. -- nm - loosilu Jun 16, 10:52
    - that seems...odd... -- nm - znufrii Jun 16, 10:38 4
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        weird. I'd think they'd be all about name recognition and brand reinforcement. -- nm - znufrii Jun 16, 10:40 2
        
        they have no need for that at all. -- nm - loosilu Jun 16, 10:48
        
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Urban Mayer, Sandy Koufax, Oscar Robertson, William Howard Taft -- nm - Ender Jun 16, 10:31 5
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  - He went there first, but he got his law degree from Cincinnati. -- nm - Ender Jun 16, 10:55 3
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      - The UC College of Law IS a college. - Ender Jun 16, 11:01
      - that's how I take it. -- nm - loosilu Jun 16, 11:01
Wildcard: I went to high school with Grant Notley's kids. NWBR or Reagen might know who he is. - Subversive Jun 16, 10:30 3
- I read his son's webcomic! -- (link) - Reagen Jun 16, 10:32 2
  - Hey, what are you doing next Wed night? - Subversive Jun 16, 10:44 1
    - as of now nothing but that can sometimes change last minute. -- nm - Reagen Jun 16, 10:45
We didn't have those as majors -- nm - con_carne Jun 16, 10:28
Jay Cutler, David Price (because Mark Prior doesn't count), Will Perdue, Ross Perot -- nm - TFox Jun 16, 10:28 1
- (looking over the list of alumni: a ton of a-holes went to my school. Ross Perot, Skip Bayless, James Patterson, Amy Ray...) -- nm - TFox Jun 16, 10:33
Heh. Well, I think the choice for my 'wildcard' slot is a no-brainer. -nm - Dr.Vermin, Wasilla High alum Jun 16, 10:28 1
- That's a mean joke. You should apologize. -- nm - Mop (235 lbs) Jun 16, 10:36
WildCard: Henry Winkler -- nm - znufrii Jun 16, 10:27 1
- also, Dennis Leary -- nm - znufrii Jun 16, 10:28
um. Football: Dat Nguyen? -- nm - ty97 Jun 16, 10:26
Wildcard: Rev. Jim Jones. -- nm - Remlik Jun 16, 10:25

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