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ESPN's SportsCentury in 1999 ranked Brown fourth among their 50 Greatest Athletes of the 20th Century, trailing only Muhammed Ali, Babe Ruth, and Michael Jordan. In 2002, The Sporting News selected him as the greatest football player of all time, [2] as did the New York Daily News in 2014. [146]
Many NBA players have made the move from the basketball court to the big screen—and in honor of Adam Sandler’s new Netflix basketball drama Hustle, we’ve compiled a list of some of the best ...
Kevin Joseph Aloysius Connors (April 10, 1921 – November 10, 1992) was an American actor, writer, and professional basketball and baseball player. He is one of only 13 athletes in the history of American professional sports to have played in both Major League Baseball (Brooklyn Dodgers 1949, Chicago Cubs, 1951) and the National Basketball Association (Boston Celtics 1946–48).
[citation needed] Henry turned down the lead of the subsequent Tarzan television series, which then went to Ron Ely. [ citation needed ] Henry is probably best known to movie audiences for playing Jackie Gleason 's character's son Junior in the Smokey and the Bandit comedies starring Burt Reynolds and Sally Field .
Athlete-turned-activist Colin Kaepernick narrates and annotates "Colin in Black & White," a new Netflix series that explores Kaepernick's formative years. It debuts on the streaming service Oct. 29.
Sudden cardiac death during a training run. [32] 4 Aug 2003: Pål Arne Fagernes Norway: 29: Javelin throw: Car accident. [33] 25 Dec 2004: Ian Syster South Africa: 28: Marathon: Drowning after car accident. [34] 14 Aug 2004: Robert Howard United States: 28: Triple jump: Murder-suicide of his wife. [35] 27 May 2005: Piotr Gładki Poland: 33 ...
He was also selected the 70th greatest athlete of the 20th century by ESPN. [80] In 1994, he was named to the NFL 75th Anniversary All-Time Team, compiled to recognize the best players of the NFL's first 75 years as adjudged by NFL officials and media personnel. [81] In 2019, Butkus was named to the NFL 100th Anniversary All-Time Team. [82]
Kurt Bilteaux Thomas (March 29, 1956 – June 5, 2020) was an American Olympic gymnast and part-time actor. He was a member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team and in 1978 he became the first American male gymnast to win a gold medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. [1]