A thread to celebrate everything great about the past & Future of Sports in honor of Grant Wahl’s Legacy

[basquebromance]

This thread is our tribute to someone who was both kind and fearless, a wonderful and too-rare combo.

 

[basquebromance]

According to his obituary in The New York Times, Jim Thorpe could run the 100-yard dash in 10 seconds flat

Why Are Jim Thorpe’s Olympic Records Still Not Recognized?

In 1912, Jim Thorpe became the greatest American Olympian of all time, but not if you ask the IOC

www.smithsonianmag.com

 

[odanny]

No one ever heard of the guy until:

1) He wore a Pride shirt to Qatar
2) He keeled over dead.

 

[basquebromance]

No one ever heard of the guy until:

1) He wore a Pride shirt to Qatar
2) He keeled over dead.

guy has almost 1 million followers on twitter and was a Sports Illustrated celebrated writer on college basketball and soccer. he even wrote about Lebron once.

 

[odanny]

guy has almost 1 million followers on twitter and was a Sports Illustrated celebrated writer on college basketball and soccer. he even wrote about Lebron once.

Yea, his claim to fame was writing about LeBron when he was in High School.

Like anyone would remember the article, much less the author.