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    How about Shaun White ??

    Olympic Snowboard gold medal winner(multiple)

    X-Games Skateboard gold medal winner(multiple)

    Guy is nasty even though I cant really stand him either......

    Nice call TT................
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    jerry rice was good at every sport

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    Quote Originally Posted by ChalkyDog View Post
    This. Terrible but funny. and terrible.


    "Let's get a franchise QB and give him no one to pass to and no one to block for him.'

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    Quote Originally Posted by sweep View Post
    Hey NoseAllDAy, who the chicka in your avatar?? Sweeper like
    http://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/players-ta...l#post15193468

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    Quote Originally Posted by Goat Milk View Post
    If Lebron decided to play in the NFL, he'd go down as a top 3 reciever of all time, maybe 1st. 270 pounds of 5% body fat, 6'9 with a 40 inch vertical leap and probably a 4.4 40 time. Basically a stronger, faster version of Calvin Johnson.
    Quote Originally Posted by ChalkyDog View Post
    LeBron James.

    Maybe he did not professionally play multiple sports, but he is easily one of the most gifted athletes of this era, and could easily play football professionally.

    Disclaimer: I do not like Bron Bron. Just my attempt to go out of the box.
    He did play high school football.

    Remember all the talk about Lebron playing TE in the NFL during the NBA Lockout? Pete Carroll and Lebron tweeting back and forth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sweep View Post
    Click on the link. You will get your answer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by onlooker View Post
    Click on the link. You will get your answer.

    Should have known PWAD couldnt pull that

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    Joey Chestnut...

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    Randy Moss: Best football player ever

    2 time West Viriginia player of year high school basketball, minor league basketball

    state track champion, mid major track champion in college

    Probably could of been an Olympic diver

    1 year high school baseball

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    Herschel Walker: football, track, bobsled

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    Think back.....
    Gene Conley
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    Great guy...Got to meet him on several occasions.
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    Jim Thorpe.....Could be one of the most gifted athletes ever.
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    Bo Jackson....Who can't like Bo Knows??

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    Quote Originally Posted by InTheDrink View Post
    For his one season in the nba?
    NO, for his College Hoops Accomplishments. Played for a pretty good team in Duke and won National Player of the year awards in 1951 and 1952. First Duke player to have his jersey retired.

    in 1952 Groat set the NCAA record for most points in a season!

    He was drafted # 3 overall in the NBA draft. MLB did not have a draft yet, so he signed a contract with the Pirates by Branch Rickey and completely skipped the minor leagues. Which wasn't surprising since he was a two time All-American in Baseball as well as Basketball.

    After the Baseball Season he started his Professional Basketball career. But his time was cut short and he served in the Military for a few years. After his stint was up, he returned to just baseball.

    the focus paid off, as he won a Batting Title, got 1 MVP and came in 2nd in MVP another year.

    Groat is in both the college basketball and baseball hall of fame...

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    Dave Winfield and Dave Logan only players to be drafted in the NBA, MLB, and NFL

    Winfield was actually drafted by 4 leagues. adding the ABA as well

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    Rusty La Rue: 3 sport star in college, NBA Champion, Gold medalist

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    We aren't talking about best college achievements, we are talking about best multi sport athlete. Groat is in zero pro sports hall of fames. If he was that great he'd have made one. Ton of guys fizzle out after a great college hoops career...means nothing. Not to mention he was put in tHe college hoops hof 50 years after he finished...and if he wasn't a long time announcer he probably never would have been.

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    don't have to be a pro to be an athlete

    Groat was a Pro though...

    don't have to be in the PRO hall of fame to have been very good in a sport.

    Groat was VERY good in two of them.

    How many others on these lists won an MVP in one of their sports? and Was the top amateur player in the OTHER sport?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ChuckyTheGoat View Post
    Wilt Chamberlin in the discussion. Most talented center ever.

    All-American in track. All-world (HOF) in Volleyball, as an after-thought. Would have been unstoppable as NFL Wr, too.

    Yeah I forgot to mention Wilt...thank you, guy was one of the most raw athletically gifted and freakishly gifted in size....

    unreal combo...

    and man could he FOK

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    Adam Morrison was the best cbb player for a year. Means nothing. Basically you're saying if he had a great baseball career and we never really knew he sucked in the nba then his basketball legend would be greater.

    Greatest ms athlete of all time has to be in at least one hof. One MVP season doesn't cut it. Zolio Versailles won an MVP. He still sucked.

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    ok so greatest mult-sport Athletes in the Hall of Fame. Start the listing

    1. Dave Debusschere ( I think I have to agree on him being in the top of the conversation, I foolishly left him out. I didn't even realize that he is in the greatest 50 NBA players of all time list.

    2. Deion Sanders

    3.????

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    Quote Originally Posted by InTheDrink View Post
    Adam Morrison was the best cbb player for a year. Means nothing. Basically you're saying if he had a great baseball career and we never really knew he sucked in the nba then his basketball legend would be greater.
    do you feel like you are making sense right now? I think you are mixing personal metaphors and straw men and falling inthedrink....

    can you rewrite that for me?

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    Joe mauer was another good one he was national player of the year in football and a great basketball player as well, if he did not start sucking at baseball recently he would be higher on the list.

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    didn't know that about Joe Mauer...

    here's a good read on Jackie Robinson's Football, Basketball, and Track exploits

    Written by Jason Lewis (Sports Editor), on 07-14-2011 13:33
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    Jackie Robinson’s best sport at UCLA was football, and before becoming a trailblazer by breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier, Robinson was a professional football player.



    By Jason Lewis
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    Jackie Robinson is known for breaking baseball’s color barrier in 1947, but it is well known that he was talented in numerous sports, including football, basketball, track, and tennis. What is not so well known is that baseball, surprisingly, may have been Robinson’s worst sport.

    Robinson was born into a family of sharecroppers in Cairo, Georgia, in 1919, but his family moved to Pasadena a year later.

    Growing up the youngest of five children, Robinson was not the athletic star of the family. His older brother Mack was.

    Mack Robinson took the silver medal in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, coming in second place to Jesse Owens.

    Jackie Robinson decided to take up sports at Muir High School, where he lettered in football, basketball, track, and baseball. He also played on the tennis team.

    In 1936, Robinson won the junior boys singles championship in the annual Pacific Coast Negro Tennis Tournament.

    After high school Robinson attended Pasadena Junior College, where he played quarterback and safety on the football team, shortstop and leadoff hitter for the baseball team, and he broke the school’s broad jump record, which was held by his older brother Mack.

    Robinson’s next move was to UCLA, where he became the first athlete, or any race, to win varsity letters in four sports: football, basketball, baseball, and track. He was one of four black players on the 1939 UCLA Bruins football team. Woody Strode, Kenny Washington, and Ray Bartlett were the others. Washington went on to break the color barrier in the NFL.

    At the time there were very few black players playing Division I football. Having four on one team made UCLA’s football team unique for that time.

    Football may have been Robinson’s best sport while at UCLA. He led the nation in punt return average in both 1939 and 1940. His career average of 18.8 yards per return ranks fourth in NCAA history.

    As a senior in 1940 he led UCLA in rushing, passing, total offense, scoring, and punt returns.

    On the basketball team, Robinson led the Southern Division of the Pacific Coast Conference in scoring in both 1940 and 1941.

    Robinson missed most of the 1940 track and field season while playing baseball, which was his worst sport at UCLA. His only season playing baseball at the school, he batted .097. Legend has it that at times Robinson would compete in the broad jump while waiting for his turn to bat during baseball games.

    Whether that is true or not, he was certainly a better broad jumper at that time than a baseball player. That year Robinson won the NCAA national title in that event.

    After college Robinson began his professional athletic career as a football player. In 1941 he played semi-professional football for the racially integrated Honolulu Bears. After a short season he returned home to play for the Los Angeles Bulldogs of the Pacific Coast Football League (PCFL).

    The PCFL was similar to baseball’s Pacific Coast League, which was a minor league because of its geographical distance from the major leagues. The major difference between the baseball and football Pacific Coast leagues was that blacks could play in the football league, but not the baseball league.

    Robinson was about the sixth black player to play in the PCFL. Former teammate Kenny Washington was the star of the league, playing for the Hollywood Bears.

    Robinson signed late in the 1941 season, and in his first game he scored on a 41-yard touchdown run.

    The following week Robinson’s Bulldogs faced off against Washington’s Bears.

    The Bulldogs took a 10-3 lead into the fourth quarter behind Robinson’s efficient play at quarterback, but the Bears rallied to win the game behind two touchdown passes by Washington.

    Robinson’s football career came to a halt when he was drafted into the army in 1942.

    After receiving an honorable discharge in 1944, Robinson briefly returned to the Bulldogs, and it appeared that he never missed a beat.

    In Robinson’s first game back he threw two touchdown passes in limited action, and a week later he rushed for 101 yards on only eight carries in a victory over the Hollywood Wolves.

    Robinson’s football career ended a week later when he injured his ankle on the first play of the game against the San Diego Bombers.

    When the 1945 football season started, Robinson was making headlines as a baseball player for the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro Leagues. He batted .387 that season, appeared in the 1945 Negro League All-Star Game, and he caught the attention of Brooklyn Dodgers President and General Manager Branch Rickey.

    Rickey met with Robinson in August of 1945, told him that he needed to have “guts enough not to fight back,” and Robinson’s football career was officially over. He was now on a path to blaze a trail for blacks in all of the major American sports.

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    I would like to throw my name into the ring.

    I dominate at both poker and chess.

    I'm a true world-class athlete.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Goat Milk View Post
    If Lebron decided to play in the NFL, he'd go down as a top 3 reciever of all time, maybe 1st. 270 pounds of 5% body fat, 6'9 with a 40 inch vertical leap and probably a 4.4 40 time. Basically a stronger, faster version of Calvin Johnson.
    Is this a joke? Get off Lebron's rooster already.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chi_archie View Post
    Jim Thorpe....
    Discussion closed.

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    Dick Groat was also a very good golfer and tennis player

    Wilt world class volleyball, could run decathalon, wanted to box Ali, was even a good ice skater

    Jim Brown Lacross, track, did some kind of roller skating comp.

    Tony Romo some say he is top notch golfer, can play some hoops, if he only could play QB

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    yeah, Wilt coulda won Olympic Gold in Decathlon had he spent 6 months focusing on it....

    Wilt took up his first love of track and field at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas while also playing basketball there. The 7'2" goliath ran a sub 11 second 100 yard dash and also threw the shot put 56 feet. Despite competing and excelling in both sprinting and throwing his best events were not surprisingly the jumping events as Chamberlain triple jumped in excess of 50 feet and successfully won the Big 8 Conference high jumping competition three years in a row. In the world of track and field it is an extraordinarily rare athlete that can compete at the highest level in the shortest sprints, all the jumping events, and the throwing events. This dynamic collection of talents is so rare in fact that Wilt might be the only man ever to possess this unique skill set.

    Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/4113288

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    to this:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chi_archie View Post
    do you feel like you are making sense right now? I think you are mixing personal metaphors and straw men and falling inthedrink....

    can you rewrite that for me?
    how's this: being the best college basketball player means nothing in any kind of conversation about the greatest athlete ever

    i'll take allen iverson over dick groat if amateur athletics counts....at least he's gonna be in one pro hall of fame


    also i mentioned bob hayes in the second post in the thread

    set the world record in the 100m and is in the pro football hall of fame

    hard to do much better than that

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    Jim Brown- was noted as the best Lacrosse player ever
    Deion Sanders
    Bo Jackson
    Dave Winfield
    John Havlicek
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