Famous sports stars from your hometown

My town only has two, but I'm sure there are more out there. Brady Quinn (Notre Dame QB) led one of my town's high schools to the state final four in 2001 I believe.

Also, Nick Goings, the new starting RB for the Carolina Panthers, led another one of my town's high schools to a state championship in the Mid-90s.

Edit: One more person. Kent Mercker, MLB pitcher

[Ace Hippie]

I was born in Alameda, California which is right outside Oakland.

Baseball

Bill Rigney (played a few years manager from 1956-1972 and 1976 in MLB) is also from Alameda. Chris Speier, a longtime shortstop (2260 games, 3 time All-Star) and Dutch Ruether (pitcher who won 137 games from 1917-1927) are also from Alameda.

Dontrelle Willis and Jimmy Rollins (current baseball players) are also from Alameda, though they are listed as being from Oakland for some reason. If you include players from Oakland as well, you get even more names, including Jermaine Dye, Ernie Lombardi (HOFer), Dennis Eckersley and Dave Stewart.

Terry Steinbach, a catcher for a while (And a good one) lived two doors down from me for a year and a half or so. Got to play catch with him

Basketball

Gary Payton, Isaiah Rider, Cliff Robinson, Brian Shaw (Oakland),

[TinaBina]

Travis Knight went to my high school....he played on the Lakers and now he's with the Knicks.

Reggie Bush and Alex Smith went to Helix high school which is 30 minutes away from where I live. But I remember watching them both play at my school. Of course we lost by a lot, but it was really cool seeing them.

not a whole lot from my town (sioux falls, sd), we got #17th highest rated high school basketball player in the country joe krabbenhoft. but for the state, brock lesnar (pro wrestler) is from aberdeen, mike miller (memphis grizzlies) is from mitchell

T.J. Duckett lived like 20 miles from me. Ben Blake, who holds like every Yale football record, went to my school. Right now there is between 3 and 6 future Olympic weightlifters at my school and one just graduated.

[Liberator13]

I'm just gonna do football now, I have a headache

Ahman Green
Walter Payton went to grade school here
Johnny Rogers
Scott Frost

Yea, I'm done, I'm too tired.

[Nerdcraft]

There's a lot of people from Cleveland. London Fletcher, Bob and Mike Golic, Elvis Grbac, Desmond Howard and Clark Kellogg all went to my highschool. There's also several other people who went to my school that made it into pro sports but were not major stars like those guys. Like our current football coach, Tom Schoen who played safety for the Browns for a little bit. There's also a guy named Dave Lighty who goes to my school right now, I believe he's the 2nd or 3rd ranked junior basketball player in the country. Great athlete, he has a scholarship to any Div. 1 school he wants..Please go to OSU Dave!

[greg vs greg]

wichita, kansas:

barry sanders
jim ryan (former world record holder for the mile, also the first high schooler to beat the 4-minute mile)

[ChrisKatz001]

Yeah one.

Tom Nalen, Center Denver Broncos
hometown: Foxborough, Mass
His Jersey #77 is retired and is hanging in Foxborough High School Gym

.....Go Patriots :bow:

Mike Ricci: Plays for the Sharks(NHL)
From Scarbrough,Ontario, Canada

Adam Graves: The same team as the other guy, Toronto Canada

and alot of other people but i forgot them

[rusch_bag]

I'm slacking in that category. We have one guy that played special teams for the bears but that's it. Our sports in my town are now fucked for ever due to my old gym teacher. He has somehow managed to ban all forms of competition at all of our local elementry schools. At reccess that can only play with one other person at a time and it cannot be a game that involves having someone be better than the other. Our teams are already bad but in a few years they will be godly horible.

[YankeesSuck]

Mark and David Bavaro, they were pro football players, I believe Dave Bavaro made it to the pro bowl with the Patriots, and Mark won the Superbowl not sure with what team. They have banners of them in my gym, Ray Bourque lives 5 minutes away from me, atleast he use to, not sure if he still lives near me or canada.

Originally Posted by D1msum

Mike Ricci: Plays for the Sharks(NHL)
From Scarbrough,Ontario, Canada

Adam Graves: The same team as the other guy, Toronto Canada

and alot of other people but i forgot them

Im from mississauga, ontario, canada. Pretty much in the GTA, we have a whole bunch of hockey players.

umm besides hockey: Donovan bailey or however his name is spelled is from Oakville...not too far from me.

[Chewy]

Hockey is really big here its a small town but they call it a hockey factory.
Long history too.

Well these guys did well


past payers on the local team have been
Brett Hull
Brendan Morrison
Paul Kayria
Andy Moog
Ray Ferraro
Joe Murphy
Grant Mulvey
Bruce Affleck
Scott Levins
Jason Podollan
Dwayne Norris
Jim Camazzola

[Bergs]

Originally Posted by YankeesSuck

Mark and David Bavaro, they were pro football players, I believe Dave Bavaro made it to the pro bowl with the Patriots, and Mark won the Superbowl not sure with what team. They have banners of them in my gym, Ray Bourque lives 5 minutes away from me, atleast he use to, not sure if he still lives near me or canada.

Mark was a TE on the NY Giants when they won the Superbowl. One of the great TEs in history.