Can you name the sports figure named for each state in ESPN's Mt. Rushmore of Sports (details in comments section)? by smoggy14

State	Sports Figure
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alabama
Alaska
Alaska
Alaska
Alaska
Arizona
Arizona
Arizona
Arizona
Arkansas
Arkansas
Arkansas
Arkansas
California
California
California
California
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut
Delaware
Delaware
Delaware
Delaware
Florida
Florida
Florida
Florida
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Iowa
Iowa
Iowa
Iowa
Kansas
Kansas
Kansas
Kansas
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky

State	Sports Figure
Kentucky
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana
Maine
Maine
Maine
Maine
Maryland
Maryland
Maryland
Maryland
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Michigan
Michigan
Michigan
Michigan
Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota
Mississippi
Mississippi
Mississippi
Mississippi
Missouri
Missouri
Missouri
Missouri
Montana
Montana
Montana
Montana
Nebraska
Nebraska
Nebraska
Nebraska
Nevada
Nevada
Nevada
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Hampshire
New Hampshire
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey
New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico
New York
New York
New York
New York
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina
Ohio
Ohio

State	Sports Figure
Ohio
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Rhode Island
Rhode Island
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Carolina
South Carolina
South Carolina
South Dakota
South Dakota
South Dakota
South Dakota
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Utah
Utah
Utah
Utah
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Vermont
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington
West Virginia
West Virginia
West Virginia
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Wyoming
Wyoming
Wyoming
North Dakota
North Dakota
North Dakota
North Dakota

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ESPN's Mt. Rushmore of Sports Quiz

by smoggy14

Created Oct 7, 2009 in Sports
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	smoggy14:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 04:14 GMT		3 points
	Based on ESPN's series "The Mt. Rushmore of Sports". Sports figures either were involved with teams from that state (professional or college) or grew up in that state. There are sports figures who are listed in more than one state.

	nomuny12:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 04:26 GMT		1 point
	Great quiz idea!

	smoggy14:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 04:28 GMT		2 points
	thanks! i tokk it about a half hour after i finished it just to test it & only got a little more than half. hahah! but by then my brain was fried from typing it all up

	miller513:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 04:47 GMT		2 points
	Paul Kariya is spelled wrong

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	Gjezman:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 06:33 GMT		5 points
	North Dakota quietly raised the best NBA coach ever, one of the better NCAA basketball coaches ever, the long-standing MLB single season home run king and nice ballplayer for the Angels. Nicely done North Dakota. Good quiz.

	RyanUR:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 15:10 GMT		1 point
	It's Frank Broyles in Arkansas, not Boyles. Also, in Alaska, "Gomez" didn't work. I had to try "Scott Gomez" to get it to work.

	dtro:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 15:12 GMT		1 point
	Well that was hard. I got 86 just typing great athletes I could think of from the 4 major sports.

	smoggy14:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 18:44 GMT		1 point
	fixed and fixed....and yes dtro, I think this was pretty difficult. The best way to do it is probably typing in the names of great sports figures first & seeing how far you get with that. Then going through the major pro & college teams state by state and thinking of what comes to mind.

	UnblocksSliders:	Oct 8th, 2009 at 00:41 GMT		-4 points
	Pretty sure I typed "Nicklaus" and didn't get it...nice quiz though.

	ElDavo:	Oct 11th, 2009 at 04:18 GMT		1 point
	Virginia pride. I'm happy with those guys representing my fine state.

	johnlk:	Oct 11th, 2009 at 04:26 GMT		-2 points
	DC doesn't count? Lame.

	smoggy14:	Oct 11th, 2009 at 05:40 GMT		3 points
	ESPN did some for DC and Puerto Rico, but they wouldn't fit on the quiz. Puerto Rico was Clemente, Ivan Rodriguez, Wilfredo Benitez and Jose Ortiz. DC was Joe Gibbs, Sammy Baugh, John Thompson and Walter Johnson.

	bbf2:	Oct 13th, 2009 at 06:50 GMT		7 points
	Gotta love a list formatted so that Colt Brennan makes it but Joe Montana doesn't.

	bobc:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 04:52 GMT		3 points
	I know Ohio has big names, but I find it hard that Oscar Robertson, who starred in both college and the pros in Cincinnati, couldn't crack the list.

	bobc:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 04:54 GMT		1 point
	@ElDavo: Lawrence Taylor really gives you a lot of pride?

	smoggy14:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 05:01 GMT		2 points
	who would you take out of the ohio group for The Big O? I'd probably remove woody hayes. It's hard to take any of them out. Hard to even imagine that nobody from The Big Red Machine is on there too.

	Ethiopius:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 05:18 GMT		-3 points
	What's the story with Gary Payton with Oregon? He grew up in Oakland and played ball up in Seattle

	smoggy14:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 14:51 GMT		3 points
	payton played college at Oregon State

	Kicking222:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 15:24 GMT		1 point
	Great quiz. I'd like to see a couple more minutes- I still had a bunch of names in mind when time ran out- but it was tons of fun regardless.

	smoggy14:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 17:20 GMT		1 point
	point taken...increased it to 20 minutes. I think that's a fair request since 98% of the quiz takers don't even get half of the answers right on this one!

	Kicking222:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 21:23 GMT		0 points
	Thank you... except now I'm going to have to take it again, dangit! (It helps that I don't remember anything from it before... it's been a long day.) Seriously, excellent game.

	Kicking222:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 21:27 GMT		0 points
	...On second thought, I still remember too many. Shoot- guess I'll have to wait 'til tomorrow.

	AnotherCutlerTD:	Nov 7th, 2009 at 02:29 GMT		1 point
	I like this one. You start off by naming the greatest sports figures regardless of state. But then you start looking at the states to fill the rest in. Pulled 87, not too bad.

	smoggy14:	Nov 7th, 2009 at 05:35 GMT		4 points
	i think thats the best way to do it. 87 is really good, i took it recently & only got a 93 and i wrote it.... only problem is shouldn't your ID name be 'AnotherCutlerInt?'

	HarryP:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 08:59 GMT		1 point
	OK, I never did like him (don't ask me why) but no Joe Montana? Seriously?

	Eagle3:	Nov 14th, 2009 at 02:02 GMT		3 points
	I was so surprised that Tebow was on the list. He hasn't even finished college yet and he is already on the Mount Rushmore for Florida.

	catch84:	Nov 30th, 2009 at 21:28 GMT		1 point
	If they are going to put a nascar driver on here it has to be petty

	JoeSlice:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 07:55 GMT		2 points
	Great quiz!

	taterracing:	Dec 12th, 2009 at 19:04 GMT		-4 points
	Why is Paul Kariya on there for Maine? He's not from Maine. He went to UMaine, but he's not from Maine.

	smoggy14:	Dec 12th, 2009 at 19:10 GMT		2 points
	it's not necessarily where the person is from. It can be wherever he made an impact either as a collegiate player or pro.

	Gangsterls:	Dec 26th, 2009 at 06:45 GMT		-1 points
	No Hank Aaron, ESPN? Meanwhile Rhode Island is so lacking in athletes that Rocco Baldelli makes the list. Interesting.

	smoggy14:	Dec 26th, 2009 at 16:19 GMT		2 points
	hank aaron is on it for 3 different states....not sure what you were looking at. but i agree about baldelli.

	tripleb:	Dec 28th, 2009 at 00:49 GMT		-3 points
	WTF!!! How is Wayne Gretzky not on this list. He is the best hockey player of all time. Also what about "The Juice"

	KosMo_KraMeR:	Jan 21st, 2010 at 15:41 GMT		2 points
	well, if u're from a populated state or a big sports state like california, michigan, texas then some greats one are not gonna make the list, like joe dimaggio, warren spahn, elgin baylor, charles barkley, joe montana, and if you are from a smaller state then u get people like mike bordick and jay novacek, no disrespect they were good players..... lol i couldn't get anyone from Alaska and Rhode Island so i typed in Trajon Langdon and Lamar Odom, obviously that was wrong but now i remember Boozer and Nap Lajoie are from those 2 states

	KosMo_KraMeR:	Jan 21st, 2010 at 15:43 GMT		-2 points
	and why is Lute Olson on there twice? Arizona and North Dakota

	smoggy14:	Jan 23rd, 2010 at 05:11 GMT		1 point
	lute was born in north dakota & is obviously an arizona basketball legend. the qualifications ESPN used were that if the person was born in a state, went to college in a state or made his athletic impact in a state, they were eligible for that state's 'mt rushmore.'

	skinnyd:	Feb 15th, 2010 at 19:20 GMT		5 points
	It is an absolute joke that people voted Tebow in Florida instead Emmitt Smith the NFL's all time rusher. Or that Kentucky has a horse, are you serious Kentucky. I do like when some states are so weak that they grap someone who couldn't make the list in another state. Like NM claiming Tommy McDonald who went to OU and had a Hall of Fame career with the Philadelphia Eagles.

	Punxsy:	Mar 7th, 2010 at 01:26 GMT		2 points
	Ups to Bill Simmons, who originally came up with the "Mount Rushmore of Sports" idea at ESPN except then the execs ran with it without giving credit where credit was due. ESPN is on the Mount Rushmore of annoying media platforms. Sporcle is on the Mount Rushmore of sweet websites.

	ileggin:	Nov 27th, 2010 at 14:06 GMT		2 points
	I'd put Alabama's four up against any other state.