Posts Tagged ‘Legacy’
Massachusetts football players don pink jerseys to raise awareness
Posted by: Legacy Direct on: September 14, 2009
Football players from Lowell, MA showed that true grit can be displayed in pink while raising awareness and money for cancer by wearing pink jerseys in a recent game: http://www.mlive.com/sports/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/09/lowell_football_players_other.html
Michael Vick: A Fallen Superstar
Posted by: Legacy Direct on: November 25, 2008
Michael Vick is an example of how a professional athlete succumbing to bad behavior can ruin a legacy forever. The former Atlanta Falcons quarterback had everything going for him (talent, money, fame, etc.) and then lost it all over a hobby that he shared with his friends back in Virginia: dog-fighting. Vick has already been [...]
Tom Brady Donates Laptops to Children in Uganda
Posted by: Legacy Direct on: November 20, 2008
On Tom Brady’s personal website, http://www.tombrady.com, Tom says he’s buying 1,500 laptops as part of the One Laptop Per Child effort and will send them to Uganda, care of his sister, Nancy, who is there working with the Infectious Disease Institute. “One Laptop Per Child is an education-based charity located in Cambridge whose mission is [...]
Alberto Pujols Wins MLB’s Roberto Clemente Award
Posted by: Legacy Direct on: November 3, 2008
Sports Illustrated had this to say about him: “What a legacy he’s leaving in St. Louis. Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols (right) won MLB’s Roberto Clemente Award not just for his latest monster season (.357, 37 homers, 116 RBIs) but also for his foundation’s work helping kids with Down syndrome. ‘Winning the award,’ said Pujols, [...]
What Will Be the Legacy of Boxer, Kelly Pavlik?
Posted by: Legacy Direct on: October 20, 2008
The WBO Middleweight Champion from Youngstown, Ohio just recently lost his first boxing match ever. He was on the losing end of a non-title fight with Bernard Hopkins on Saturday night, October 18th, 2008 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Pavlik, now with a record of (34-1) in his career, must face the criticism and the [...]
O.J. Simpson’s Fallen Legacy
Posted by: Legacy Direct on: October 6, 2008
Tom Rinaldi did an excellent piece for ESPN’s Outside the Lines, on how the legacy of O.J. Simpson was once as strong as any athlete on the planet. However, after the tumultuous 1994 murder trial of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown-Simpson, and most recently, the sports memorabilia fiasco in Las Vegas, Simpson’s legacy has all but [...]
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