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Walleye
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Tue May-09-23 08:38 PM

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"Anybody got any good "actually played against a legend" stories?"


          

I got worked in a 4x200m leg by Bernard Williams, and blown off the track in workouts by Pascal Dobert and Balazs Koranyi. But only one of those guys is a big deal, and it's track so there's not much of a story beyond "Bernard Williams got the baton in front of me and handed it off to his teammates much further in front of me."

But the team I coach has to deal with a kid who just ran the best Penn relays 400m split in years at 45.09, and just set the US all-time #3 for freshmen at 46.really-low. When he races, it looks like somebody has edited so he's moving faster than everybody else. Like, it almost literally looks fake. Lots of freshmen prodigies don't pan out, obviously - but if the standard here is "legend" and not "NCAA All-American" or "Olympian" or something similarly tangible then this guy is pretty much already a legend. Obea Moore knows that doing something amazing at Penn Relays means you'll be remembered forever.

Anyhow, beating him is probably impossible. Beating his team will take a lot of good luck. But I bet a few of my kids will be telling people they lost to Quincy Wilson in a few years.

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Anybody got any good "actually played against a legend" stories? [View all] , Walleye, Tue May-09-23 08:38 PM
 
Subject Author Message Date ID
No legends. Couple of future MLBers, one future NBAer.
May 10th 2023
1
You got some of this realizations younger than I did
May 10th 2023
11
      Yeah, it was good that the difference was so stark.
May 11th 2023
39
           Couldn't hit the curveball is my bet
May 12th 2023
41
                Probably right. And it gets me thinking how tons of talent...
May 12th 2023
58
                     Yea exactly, keying off the wrong things
May 13th 2023
66
I was on the same summer track club as Darold Williamson
May 10th 2023
2
Some of those youth track clubs are bananas
May 10th 2023
12
      Marshavette Hooker was on the young women’s team
May 10th 2023
16
Pick-up game vs Kobe his senior year......
May 10th 2023
3
RE: Pick-up game vs Kobe his senior year......
May 10th 2023
13
      this drives me crazy!!!!
May 11th 2023
32
           RE: this drives me crazy!!!!
May 20th 2023
69
Plenty of random nba players
May 10th 2023
4
RE: Anybody got any good "actually played against a legend" stories?
May 10th 2023
5
RIP Lo Wright
May 10th 2023
6
no shade but I leaned in when you said starting SB quarterback
May 10th 2023
7
That was intentional lol
May 10th 2023
9
shoutout to Tony Harris
May 11th 2023
21
      He was that dude
May 11th 2023
34
No legends but a funny story
May 10th 2023
8
damn i was waiting for her name
May 10th 2023
10
      No idea.. this was like 1990 so maybe I could point her out in a photo
May 10th 2023
14
           Which one? (the internet is dope sometimes):
May 10th 2023
                oh shit.. pretty sure it was Telana Courseault
May 11th 2023
24
                     Kudos for remembering after all this time lol
May 11th 2023
29
I drank with Dennis Rodman. Does that count?
May 10th 2023
15
My wife’s cousin is Jimmy Smith from the Ravens
May 10th 2023
17
damn, i think i vaguely remember you telling this story in here
May 10th 2023
18
lol i sure did
May 10th 2023
20
I drank with Charles Barkley after the first NBA Allstar Game in Nola
May 11th 2023
22
Absolutely.
May 11th 2023
40
Played b-ball against former N.O. Saint Will Smith (RIP) in high school
May 10th 2023
19
Buckeye legend , wish we still had D linemen like him
May 11th 2023
27
I got my ass kicked by UFC Champion Daniel Cormier
May 11th 2023
23
Hilarious and awesome story.
May 11th 2023
25
I don't remember the show that fully
May 11th 2023
31
Big John was our ref yea
May 11th 2023
35
THANKS for sharing this....
May 11th 2023
36
yo this is wild. did they ever say you were gonna REALLY get touched?
May 12th 2023
49
At no point did I successfully predict which turns this would take
May 12th 2023
51
I remember this show!
May 12th 2023
54
LMAO this is gold
May 12th 2023
64
Jeremy Battier (Shane’s younger brother) is one of my best friends
May 11th 2023
26
he was eating ppl up at MSUs football camp in 1999
May 11th 2023
28
      What a small small world I’m gonna bring this up to him lol
May 11th 2023
33
           um...inbox
May 11th 2023
37
I was in rehab with Takeo Spikes.
May 11th 2023
30
This one I told here, quite a few years back...
May 11th 2023
38
One of THEE most unstoppable moves ever on a video game lol
May 12th 2023
43
lol, bro...that and Barkley's 'Gorilla Dunk"...
May 12th 2023
44
perfect - no notes
May 12th 2023
45
this is crazy, was he good enough to go pro?
May 20th 2023
68
Well, nobody asked for his autograph
May 12th 2023
42
I played 3on3 against The Marine.
May 12th 2023
46
WHAT? We need a deep dive, if this is a real post.
May 12th 2023
48
Oh damn, a true legend
May 12th 2023
50
Now I gotta go hit the archives to read that again lmao
May 12th 2023
52
LOL.
May 12th 2023
53
All man, the GOAT post
May 12th 2023
55
He hit you with the haiku?
May 12th 2023
60
I still laugh about “The Botanist”
May 12th 2023
61
      Horticulturist.
May 12th 2023
65
Not against but with
May 12th 2023
47
Legend and some very very good
May 12th 2023
56
Twins legend, Eric Milton?
May 12th 2023
57
RE: Twins legend, Eric Milton?
May 12th 2023
63
Nice.
May 12th 2023
59
Diana Taurasi
May 12th 2023
62
Played pick up basketball at LA fitness against Shady McCoy
May 14th 2023
67

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