JW SPORTS LINKS

by badboy 12 Replies latest jw friends

  • badboy
    badboy

    APART FROM WILLIAMS SISTERS,KNOW OF ANY OTHER JWS WIH SPORTING LINKS.?

  • Gopher
    Gopher

    Danny Granger plays professional basketball for the NBA's Indiana Pacers, and is his team's leading scorer. His talent is worth millions of dollars. He's an active JW according to this article: http://www.nba.com/pacers/news/granger_050630.html

  • Gopher
    Gopher

    Shonte Peoples recently played in the Canadian Football League for the Saskatchewan Roughriders. He's an inactive JW who believes in it to the point where he carries the "no blood" card, according to this story: http://www.adherents.com/people/pp/Shonte_Peoples.html

  • NewYork44M
    NewYork44M

    I had always heard that Chet Lemon from the Detroit Tigers was a witness.

    Also, Willy Stargel's wife was (is) a witness.

  • FadingAway
    FadingAway

    Jermane Mayberry, who played in Superbowl 39 for the Philadelphia Eagles, was baptized in 2002.

    Article here: http://www.weebeetravel.com/FRIENDS/superbowl.html

  • blondie
    blondie

    Sports:
    - Venus Williams and Serena Williams - world chamption/Olympic gold medalist tennis players
    - Lou Whitaker - professional baseball player (Detroit Tigers)
    - Chet Lemon - professional baseball player (Detroit Tigers)
    - Shont'e Peoples - professional football player (Saskatchewan Roughriders); convert to JWs
    - Kid Gavilan - welterweight champion boxer; elected to boxing Hall of Fame in 1990 (convert to JWs)
    - Dave Pear - NFL professional football player for Colts, Buccaneers, and Raiders (convert)
    - Mark McCumber - professional golfer
    - Dave Meyers - professional basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers in 1970s)
    - Danny Granger - professional basketball player (Indiana Pacers)
    - Travis Scott - NFL football player for Rams (raised JW)
    - Willie Wise - NBA professional basketball player for Seattle Super Sonics and Denver Nuggets

    http://www.adherents.com/largecom/fam_jw.html

  • Gopher
    Gopher

    Of all the athletes listed so far, the only ones still active in their professional sport are the Williams sisters and Danny Granger.

  • BONEZZ
    BONEZZ

    I'd heard that Mark O'Meara(sp?) (pro golfer) was a dub and was friends with Tiger (who he supposedly witnessed to).

    -BONEZZ

  • blondie
    blondie

    I happen to know that Dave Meyers was actively playing basketball when he was a dub.

  • thepackage
    thepackage

    NBA Player Sam Perkins was/is(?) a JW. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE5DA103BF934A35755C0A967958260

    I meet him when he was with the Lakers through a Brother in the Hall that did work for the Lakers.

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