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07-13-2007, 01:57 PM
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Beautiful St. Johns River
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Jacksonville,Florida
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Famous Sports People Born In Your City
What famous sports star was born in your city? Doesn't matter what sport .
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07-13-2007, 04:59 PM
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Glasgow Rangers FC
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Western Chicagoland
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Quote:
Originally Posted by noland123
What famous sports star was born in your city? Doesn't matter what sport .
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Mike Alstott, Simeon Rice, Red Grange... LOTS. Ill have to look into this when I have some more time. |
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07-13-2007, 08:53 PM
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Black, Conversative, Educated; not oxymorons!
Status:
"Not getting my money's worth in Northern VA!"
(set 1 day ago)
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Northern VA (sadly)
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Hampton, VA: Allen Iverson, Ronald Curry, Elton Brown
Alexandria, VA: Keith Burns
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07-16-2007, 11:19 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: pittsburgh
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Pittsburgh............Curtis Martin, Kevan Barlow, Dan Marino, Eddie Drummond
Olympic Sprinter Lauryn Williams
WWE Superstar and Olympian Kurt Angle
Im sure there are many more those are just the first ones to come to mind
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07-17-2007, 10:04 AM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Indianapolis
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Indianapolis........ Greg Oden and Jeff George. I'll think of some more.
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07-23-2007, 03:54 PM
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Like Hungry Hungry Hippos
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: San Fernando Valley, CA
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I'm sure there are plenty from the Valley, but I can't think of any.
I can only think of the fact that Gary Matthews Jr of my Cubs...now playing for the Angeles of Anaheim....played college ball at my current college of LAMC.
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07-25-2007, 02:25 AM
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Heading South!
Status:
"So much for spring... sigh"
(set 19 days ago)
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: West Virginia
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WE have a basketball player...Vicky Bullet & a football player Fulton [I think that is his name...
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07-30-2007, 11:52 AM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Wind comes sweeping down the...
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Jim Thorpe
Oklahoma City and surrounding territory.
Jim Thorpe was named the greatest athlete of the first half of the twentieth century by the Associated Press (AP) in 1950, and ranked third on the AP list of athletes of the century in 1999.
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07-30-2007, 08:20 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Tuxedo Park, NY
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Tolland, CT: next door in Rockville they've got Bill Romanowski
Darien, CT: Ryan Shannon- NHL
Brian Cashman- Yanks GM
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08-01-2007, 07:54 PM
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Not a member
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: East Windsor CT
264 posts
Reputation: 32
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Hartford and surrounding territory
Marcus Camby-NBA
Dwight Freeney-NFL
Eric Mangini-NFl Jets Head Coach
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