Tag Archives: heroes
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Hometown Heroes: 15 Pro Athletes Who Played For Their Hometown Teams
Yesterday TotalProSports told you about Brandon Crawford, the San Francisco Giants’ starting shortstop who, as it turns out, grew up in San Francisco rooting for the team with which he just won the World Series. And I don’t know about you, but I happen to think that is awesome. So I got to wondering: what [...]
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9 Disgraced Sports Heroes
We love turning sports stars into heroes. Is it fair or rational to do so? Maybe, maybe not. On the one hand, pro athletes are just people like you or me, the only difference being that they were born with innate abilities the rest of us don’t have. Why do we expect them to serve [...]
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15 Unlikely MLB Postseason Heroes
One of the best things about postseason baseball is that you get to expect the unexpected. You never know what it will be, but you can count on seeing something completely unpredictable. And the 2012 MLB postseason is certainly no exception. On Friday night, not only did we witness yet another historic comeback by the [...]
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9 Inspirational Sports Stories
The last couple of weeks, it seems like the sports page has been dominated by one depressing story after another. First, football legend Joe Paterno became embroiled in a tragic child abuse scandal. Then we heard that one of the greatest boxers of all time, Joe Frazier, passed away. And now, just this past Thursday, [...]
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9 Greatest Sports Movie Heroes
Last week we brought you a list of the most sinister sports movie villains. So obviously, we had to come back this week and balance things out with a list of the greatest sports movie heroes. As you would expect, it’s a list of nobodies, underdogs, long-shots, and has-beens who fought through adversity and came [...]
