SiouxVolley Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 5 hours ago, MafiaMan said: Phil Jackson's 13 NBA championship rings - most of which were courtesy of four of the top fifty players of all-time. How's he doing with his Knicks rebuilding job? I guess he needs to acquire some guy from Cleveland and that Kevin Durant guy from Oklahoma in order to win another number 14. Phil seemed to have got a gem in Kristap Porzingis, who is setting rookie NBA records. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siouxphan27 Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Since we're honoring real American heroes here... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sioux>Bison Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 What about the star of the last Winter Olympics ? tJ oshie really put UND on the map after his great performance in the shootout. Let NDSU enjoy their fame because it is a matter of change before the tide switches! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MafiaMan Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 3 hours ago, SiouxVolley said: Phil seemed to have got a gem in Kristap Porzingis, who is setting rookie NBA records. He'll leave the Knicks with no more rings than he has now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MafiaMan Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 1 hour ago, Sioux>Bison said: What about the star of the last Winter Olympics ? tJ oshie really put UND on the map after his great performance in the shootout. Let NDSU enjoy their fame because it is a matter of change before the tide switches! With all due respect to TJ Oshie, I doubt that that Olympic performance "put UND on the map." How'd that US team finish? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWSiouxMN Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 4 minutes ago, MafiaMan said: He'll leave the Knicks with no more rings than he has now. and head to LA once Jeanie Buss kicks her brother out of the basketball operations department. Wasn't Phil's fault the Knicks were an absolute tire fire when he signed on. He's actually cleaned up a lot of the junk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homer Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Jeff Boschee being selected for the McDonalds All American game is something that will likely not happen for a North Dakota high schooler ever again. Its more likely a North Dakota college football player is selected in the first round of the draft again IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zonadub Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 5 hours ago, JohnboyND7 said: Meh, Phil Hansen did it first and was from an(barely) even smaller town I'll see your Phil Hanson from Oakes and raise you a Dave Osborn from Cando. But then, you're too young to know about him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MafiaMan Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 37 minutes ago, SWSiouxMN said: and head to LA once Jeanie Wasn't Phil's fault the Knicks were an absolute tire fire when he signed on. He's actually cleaned up a lot of the junk. So was Phil's hiring of Derek Fisher as head coach part of the clean-up or was his firing of Fisher a season and a half later part of the clean-up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnboyND7 Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 1 hour ago, zonadub said: I'll see your Phil Hanson from Oakes and raise you a Dave Osborn from Cando. But then, you're too young to know about him. Not born in North Dakota. 13th round???? Weak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MafiaMan Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 1 hour ago, zonadub said: I'll see your Phil Hanson from Oakes and raise you a Dave Osborn from Cando. But then, you're too young to know about him. Super Dave Osborn was from Cando? Mind = blown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post iramurphy Posted March 29, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted March 29, 2016 21 hours ago, farce poobah said: If there's a contest for #2 all-time North Dakota sports story behind Mr Maris, I vote for Fritz Pollard. He went into the heart of Nazi Germany in the 1936 Olympics and won a silver medal. Pretty damn brave. http://und.edu/news/2016/02/fritz-pollard.cfm And, to the thread topic, I bet he could beat Forrest Gump, too. Good to see someone remembered Pollard. Fritz Pollard was an All-American FB player who had tied the world record in the high hurdles. He won a bronze medal in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. He did this as a young black man who overcame the barriers faced by a young black athlete here and in Nazi Germany. He also overcame the disadvantage of running track in a cold weather climate when we didn't have an indoor track facility. I sat next to him at a UND alumni dinner years ago that I attended with my Dad. Fritz was a class act. He talked about his the barriers they faced having meals and staying at hotels as they traveled to away games. He talked about how Coach Jack West and his teammates supported him and left restaurants that wouldn't let them dine together as a team. Intelligent, articulate, classy gentleman. Ranks with the best. I also had lunch with his Olympic teammate Jesse Owens when he spoke at N. Dak. Boys State when I was. Boys State Counselor. Jesse Owens is the only autograph I have ever kept. Wish I would have gotten Fritz Pollard's. Humbling experience both times. Makes this discussion seem a bit silly. The fact these guys did great things or that Roger Maris did great things doesn't lessen the accomplishments of Wentz. What an athlete does or doesn't do doesn't make fans any better or worse. The fans are spectators just like the media guys. As fans or media folks we haven't done great things. The athletes do. Don't make us look bad by whining about the attention the guy gets. Wentz has earned the respect and attention he is getting. If you can't see he is the real deal then I don't think you know FB. Wish him the best and support our own teams so we can get better. Ignore the losers who seem to think the accomplishments of athletes or athletic teams somehow make them better than they are and waste time coming on another schools blog to gloat. On to Tampa. Go Hawks. 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayduke Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 I hope Wentz is the first qb picked in the NFL draft and he has a long and illustrious career. It's good for North Dakota. Everything else is just being petty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWSiouxMN Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 10 hours ago, MafiaMan said: So was Phil's hiring of Derek Fisher as head coach part of the clean-up or was his firing of Fisher a season and a half later part of the clean-up? Perhaps if Fisher was focused more on his head coaching duties instead of a player's wife... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geneva6 Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Let's not forget about Virgil "Quicksilver" Hill...Olympic Silver medalist and multiple time boxing world champ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnboyND7 Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 11 minutes ago, geneva6 said: Let's not forget about Virgil "Quicksilver" Hill...Olympic Silver medalist and multiple time boxing world champ. Did Virgil Hill have a successful professional boxing career? He's from before my time as well. I knew he did well in the Olympics but was that back when the Olympics required amateurism or whatever the policy was? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 19 minutes ago, JohnboyND7 said: Did Virgil Hill have a successful professional boxing career? He's from before my time as well. I knew he did well in the Olympics but was that back when the Olympics required amateurism or whatever the policy was? Open a new window or tab, then Google, type Virgil Hill, enter. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UND1983 Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 41 minutes ago, JohnboyND7 said: Did Virgil Hill have a successful professional boxing career? He's from before my time as well. I knew he did well in the Olympics but was that back when the Olympics required amateurism or whatever the policy was? You serious, Clark? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnboyND7 Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 6 minutes ago, UND1983 said: You serious, Clark? Boxing isn't a big interest to me or anyone I know. Did a wikipedia search. Cool deal. Not born in North Dakota unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cratter Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 59 minutes ago, JohnboyND7 said: Boxing isn't a big interest to me or anyone I know. Did a wikipedia search. Cool deal. Not born in North Dakota unfortunately. Wiz kahlifa was born in Minot. More people probably know him more than Carson Wentz right now. Born and raised famous North Dakotans are far and few between. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geaux_sioux Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Miss Rousey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cratter Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 1 hour ago, geaux_sioux said: Miss Rousey Interesting. I had no idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sioux94 Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 5 hours ago, JohnboyND7 said: Boxing isn't a big interest to me or anyone I know. Did a wikipedia search. Cool deal. Not born in North Dakota unfortunately. He still made a very strong claim of ND being his home though, and held 13 title fights in Bismarck to recognize his home state. I'm sure he could have gotten more money having them in Vegas etc.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gundy1124 Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 6 hours ago, JohnboyND7 said: Boxing isn't a big interest to me or anyone I know. Did a wikipedia search. Cool deal. Not born in North Dakota unfortunately. Ya, boxing really sucked during the Virgil Hill years. The Hearns, Hagler, Leonard, Duran historic fights were near the end and some bum named Mike Tyson just entered into boxing in the late 80's, early 90's. YAWN!!!!! BORING!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnboyND7 Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 19 minutes ago, gundy1124 said: Ya, boxing really sucked during the Virgil Hill years. The Hearns, Hagler, Leonard, Duran historic fights were near the end and some bum named Mike Tyson just entered into boxing in the late 80's, early 90's. YAWN!!!!! BORING!!!!! Did anyone say it was bad or boring? I don't watch it. None of my friends or family gets into it either so it really doesn't get brought up often. The only two I've heard of there is Virgil Hill and Mike Tyson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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