some long shots.
Foreman winning the title back when he was 827 years old.
John Rocker
'86 bears(Mike Ditka?).
Ray Lewis.
Orlando Hernandez.
Make that 85 bears, before a Chicago fan kills me.
Not that 14-year-old ringer in the Little League World Series? I don’t think so, because I subscribe to Sports Insulated and I don’t recall him on its cover. But I have the memory of a fruit fly anyway.
Bruce Jenner?
Casey Stengel?
Bobby Riggs?
Julius Erving?
I’m really just shooting in the dark, here.
Peggy Fleming?
Ian Fleming?
Pink Flamingo?
Nope, none correct since the last list.
I’ll give a small hint. Re-read the list. Of the answers that are left, none of them are sports that are already represented on the “right” list. In other words, there are three answers left, and they all come from three different sports not currently on the list
I just thought of Gretzky and Cal Ripken, Jr.
But I’m probably wrong.
Pete Rose and/or Bart Giamatti?
George Steinbrenner?
This is a very good thread, BTW. Lots o’ fun for the whole family, plenty of parking and free balloons for the kids.
Although women’s soccer was mentioned, how 'bout men’s soccer? Any chance of Pele being it, perhaps when he came to the U.S. in late '70s?
Or men’s WC team in '94?
Probably not, huh?
Well I’ll guess that two of the as yet unrepresented sports are baseball and tennis.
For baseball –
Lou Gehrig?
Joe DiMaggio?
For tennis –
Chris Evert?
Martina Navritilova (hmmm…that doesn’t look right)?
Jimmy Connors?
John McInroe?
Boris Becker?
Olympians :
Mark Spitz 7 golds
Nadia Comaneci 10/10
???
Mickey Mantle
Monica Seles
The Williams sisters
Bob Cousey
Jeff Gordon
Bud Selig
Ben Johnson
Carl Lewis
Coach K from Duke
Len Bias
Dr.Hook
I guess I have led you folks off the right track, so I’m just going to give one of the answers to you.
jk said “The '98 US women’s world cup soccer team?”
and then individual members were named.
But is was actually the 1996 US womens soccer team – gold medal,
and Spoiler Virgin nails Boris Becker (this is the other one that I am not sure of the event that got him on the covers).
The updated list:
[ul]
[li]Muhammad Ali – stripped of his title for draft dodging[/li][li]OJ – arrested for murder[/li][li]1980 US Hockey Team – gold medal[/li][li]1996 US Women’s soccer team – gold medal[/li][li]Joe Namath – 1969 Superbowl[/li][li]Secretariat – triple crown winner[/li][li]Jack Nicklaus (grand slam winner?)[/li][li]Boris Becker (youngest to win a grand slam?? really not sure on this one)[/li][/ul]
The last one is pretty tough. IMO, the second hardest one (I thought that secretariat was the hardest one.) Another hint – it’s either Basketball or Baseball.
Ben Johnson (drugs bust)
Dennis Connor (America’s Cup winner)
Got to be a skier…how about that French guy Jean-Claude Killy.
Okay, I’m out of steam…Eddie the bloody Eagle ?
Hank Gathers
Dwight Gooden
Daryl Strawberry
Bob Welch
Dennis Rodman
Mark Fidrych
I don’t know if it was missed, but Flymaster’s guess of Nadia Comaneci’s perfect 10 in the '76 Olympics is correct. I have a friend who was a big fan and she had the three magazines in a single frame.
I did some looking, and this web page confirms it:
http://www.laureus.com/worldsportsacademy/members/comaneci.html
My guesses:
Wasn’t the entire U.S. Women’s team on the covers for their win in '98?
Bill Bradley (though it wouldn’t have been sports related)
From baseball, how about Hank Aaron beating Ruth’s record?
What about the Men’s Olympic basketball team (I forget which year '72 or '76?) who were gypped of gold medals and refused to accept their silver medals?
Hm, Ob interesting. That was one that was not on the list
Nadia wasn’t mentioned to me – that is an addition to the list, there is 10, not 9.
And He told me it was the US Olmypic womens team for 96, but it very well have been 98, in which case jk was right (and I need to apologize). So lets just call it the US womens soccer team, and leave it at that.
So now we have 9 (one of them is news to me). There is still one more, the athlete coming from Basketball or Baseball.
Hmmm…could it be related to the 1994 baseball strike that killed the World Series that year?
I can’t believe Jordan doesn’t qualify, either for Basketball or Baseball. Are you absolutely sure about this?
Pete Rose, being banned from baseball?
oops, just saw Vinnie had already guessed Pete Rosethis.
i’ve got to agree that I find it surprising Jordan’s not on the list
I feel the need to confirm all of this. I am heading to the library for a few hours of tedium. I’ll report the results.