Comments Thread For: Bernard Hopkins: Black Fighters, We Are Built Differently

[klitschko79]

Olympics AND Majority of sports

WHY ALL BLACK GUYS AVOID TO ANSWER ME WHY THEY WIN THE LOWEST % OF MEDALS IN ALL SPORTS OF THE OLYMPICS SINCE THEY ARE SO NATURALLY GIFTED?

I KEEP ASKING, ONLY RUNNING AND BASKETBALL IS OUT THERE FOR THEM?

WHY DON'T THEY DOMINATE RAW ATHLETIC SPORTS SUCH AS :

SWIMMING, GYMNASTICS, SHOT PUT , JAVELIN , DECATHLON, HAMMER THROW, WALKING RACES , POLE VAULT , HIGH JUMP (DAMN I THOUGHT BLACK MEN COULD JUMP LOL) , TRIPLE JUMP , DISCUS , TRIATHLON , WRESTLING , WEIGHTLIFTING , CYCLING , SKIING , ICE SKATING , DIVING , SWIMMING MARATHONS blah blah blah ? NOBODY STOPS BLACKS FROM DOMINATING ALL THESE WITH THEIR "SUPREME' NATURAL ATHLETICISM, WHY DON'T THEY?

WHY BLACKS DON'T DOMINATE MAJOR INTERNATIONAL SPORTS SUCH AS :
SOCCER, VOLLEY , WATER POLO , RUGBY , CRICKET , HANDBALL , BASEBALL , HOCKEY , TENNIS (STICK TO MEN ALRIGHT, WE TALK MEN SPORTS) , GOLF (ONE IN TOP 100 IS LIKE EMINEM IN HIP HOP) , AUTO AND MOTOR SPORTS , STRONGEST MAN COMPETITION , MMA AND EVEN BOXING ONCE USSR COLLAPSED AND THESE SLAVIC BEAST BECAME PROFESSIONALS?

WHAT IS OUT THERE FOR BLACKS REALLY OTHER THAN FEW RUNNING EVENTS AND BASKETBALL? AMERICAN FOOTBAL? A SPORT THAT ONLY AMERICANS PLAY? THEN AUSSIES DOMINATE AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL TOO, SO WHAT IS YOUR POINT?


WHY I GET NO ANSWER?

BLACKS WON 106 OUT OF 957 MEDALS GIVEN IN OLYMPICS OF 2008 = 11% OF ALL MEDALS

BLACKS WON 2 OUT OF 268 MEDALS GIVEN IN OLYMPICS 2010 = 0,00002 %

LOL

WILL I GET AN ANSWER?? LMAO

[Gino Ros]

The best athletes of all time -- it's been done, but we're doing it again. These guys were simply built for sport, guys who did -- or could have -- succeeded in just about any sport they chose.

10. Lou Gehrig
The Iron Horse was 6 feet and 200 pounds of pure muscle -- in columnist Jim Murray's words, "a symbol of indestructibility -- a Gibraltar in cleats." Gehrig was strong and tough enough to play fullback and linebacker at Columbia in the early 1920s, and his sheer durability, exemplified by his consecutive games streak, is unquestionable.




Gehrig's ability to simply pound the ball is well known, but some little-discussed aspects of his game are telling. He had good speed -- in fact, he had 163 career triples (he led the AL in 1926 with 20 three-baggers).

Oh, we forgot to mention -- Lou could also pitch. He was Columbia's ace, going 6-3 his sop****re season before signing with the Yankees. In a game against Williams College he struck out 17 batters. The week before, in a winning effort against CCNY, he struck out 11 in seven innings while going 4-for-4 at the plate with four runs, a double and a stolen base.

9. Gordie Howe
Howe could do it all on the ice -- skate, shoot, pass, fight and score. And he could do it for much of his life, having entered the NHL in 1946 as an 18-year-old rookie and not retiring until 1980, as a 52-year-old icon (and one of the top scorers on the Whalers).

Among Howe's accomplishments upon retirement: most lifetime goals (1,071), most lifetime assists (1,518), most All-Star appearances (29) and most MVP awards (7).

If you think those hockey skills aren't transferable, consider this: Howe often took batting practice with the Tigers, and was so good that Al Kaline thought if he had put his effort into the American pastime, he would have been great at it.

8. Michael Jordan
We've seen so much of Jordan on the basketball court -- he was super-quick, probably high-jumped six feet without even trying, long-jumped 20 or so feet despite pausing to slam home dunks, could see things nobody else could ... an incredible defender ... etc., etc. Which is why he remains the greatest basketball player of all time.

Michael Jordan
People will remember Michael Jordan's high-flying dunks forever.

But don't forget what he did in baseball -- after not playing since high school, he spent a season with the Double-A Birmingham Barons and hit .202 with 51 RBI and 30 stolen bases in 127 games. Some people mocked him for this performance -- MJ couldn't hack it even in the minors, they said -- but putting up those mediocre numbers is pretty impressive for a 31-year-old Southern League rookie. And, proof of what he could simply will himself to do. Last, and maybe least, there's MJ's golf game. As far as we can tell, he's got between a four and seven handicap, can drive the ball a mile, and is a formidable opponent against good amateur golfers.

7. Jackie Robinson
Robinson, who, as you know, would eventually settle on baseball as his career sport, was the first UCLA athlete ever to letter in four sports. As a Bruin, Robinson was an All-American running back, a point guard who twice led the Pac-10 in scoring, and the 1940 NCAA champion in the long jump, flying 25' 6 1/2".

And in baseball, he could do it all -- hit for power, hit for average, steal bases with the best of them and stretch doubles into triples. We could say more about Jackie's strength, speed, stamina and extraordinary character, but geez, you know it already. If you don't, that's a shame.

THE FIVE GREATEST FEMALE ATHLETES
1. Babe Didrikson
2. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
3. Serena Williams
4. Marion Jones
5. Martina Navratilova

6. Rafer Johnson
Johnson won the silver medal, despite an injured knee, in the 1956 Olympic decathlon. Four years later, he won the the gold medal in Rome, in a thrilling finish against his friend and training partner C.K. Yang. Back in 1960, the Olympic gold in the decathlon really meant you were the world's greatest athlete. And Yang, a former world record holder, was incredibly tough competition.

But we need more to bolster Rafer's case for this list. He ran for nine yards a carry in high school, which earned him a football scholarship offer from UCLA. This he turned down, because his eyes were already on the decathlon, in which he set a world record as a college freshman.

While a prep, he also excelled in basketball, and even though his eyes were clearly on the track and field prize, he did play hoops for UCLA -- under John Wooden.

5. Wilt Chamberlain
Wilt's hoops bona fides are so well known that we'll skip them, except to note that in addition to all of his scoring marks, he remains the only center to lead the NBA in assists. But on to his other athletic exploits (yeah, yeah, we could mention his 20K as proof of his athleticism, but this is a family site).

If you couldn't tell Chamberlain was strong, fast and agile from his basketball playing, you could look to his track and field performances. As a prep, he set Pennsylvania state records in the shot put and the 110-meter hurdles, and his scholarship to Kansas was for both basketball and track. He earned the track portion by winning three straight Big Eight high jump titles.

Wilt Chamberlain
Wilt Chamberlain put up some hoops stats that nobody could dream of duplicating today.

After he retired from basketball, the Dipper transformed himself into a world-class volleyball player. For fun, he ran marathons. He also turned down offers to play pro football and box professionally.

4. Bo Jackson
An MLB and NFL all-star -- are you kidding? Could climb tall walls and summit with spectacular catches and could win the Heisman at his "hobby" sport.

To be more precise: in eight major-league seasons, Bo hit .250 with 141 HRs and 415 RBI, and was so good that he returned after surgery, and playing with a prosthetic hip, hit 29 homers in his final two seasons. In four part-time NFL seasons with the Raiders, he played only 38 games but ran for 2,782 yards, an average of 5.4 yards per carry.

Bo's best baseball season came in 1989, when he hit .256 with 32 homers, 105 RBI and 26 stolen bases. He was named MVP of the All-Star game, and five months later, after he rushed for 950 yards in just 11 games for the Raiders, was named to the Pro Bowl team.

3. Dave Winfield
Winfield could do it all on the baseball field -- hit for power, run (three times he finished in the top eight in triples, and in four seasons he stole more than 20 bases), and field, winning the Gold Glove seven times. Winfield, who played for the University of Minnesota, was the Gophers' best hitter and pitcher, not a shabby achievement considering Minnesota made it to the semis of the 1973 College World Series. After 22 major-league seasons -- he never played in the minors -- Winfield was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2001, his first year of eligibility.

But there's more. He was also good enough to play pro basketball, drafted by both the Atlanta Hawks and the Utah Stars after starring as a power forward on Minnesota's Big Ten championship team. And he was such a great athlete that even though he never played a single down in college, the Vikings selected him in the 1973 draft. No other athlete has ever been drafted in all three pro sports.

2. Jim Thorpe
After the 1912 Olympics, in which Thorpe won the decathlon and pentathlon, King Gustav V of Sweden called him "the greatest athlete in the world." True.

Thorpe could do it all in track and field, and he was the best football player of his era, leading the Carlisle Indian School team to the 1912 national college championship and the Canton Bulldogs to three unofficial pro titles between 1916 and 1919. Thorpe was an awesome runner, a tenacious tackler, and drop-kicked 50-yard field goals with ease. Thorpe also played baseball, putting in six major-league seasons with the Giants, Reds and Braves and hitting a career .252.

In 1950 Thorpe was named the best athlete of the first half of the 20th century.

Jim Brown
Jim Brown was one of the greatest running backs ever, and tops our all-around athlete list.

1. Jim Brown
Brown was one of the greatest NFL running backs of all time, an All-American lacrosse player who was one of the finest ever, averaged 38 points per game in high school basketball and lettered in hoops at Syracuse, finished fifth in the 1956 national decathlon championship, was offered a minor-league deal by the Yankees, and could have been a pro boxer after he retired.

Also receiving votes:

Jerry Rice
Bob Gibson
Kirk Gibson
Charlie Ward
Deion Sanders
Bob Mathias
Danny Ainge
John Elway
Eric Heiden

[Cash Cow]

how come americans dont look more native american?

Has England been here for 3,000 years? Lol...The british came here a few hundred years ago, not nearly enough time to evolve....

[amayseng]

WHY ALL BLACK GUYS AVOID TO ANSWER ME WHY THEY WIN THE LOWEST % OF MEDALS IN ALL SPORTS OF THE OLYMPICS SINCE THEY ARE SO NATURALLY GIFTED?

I KEEP ASKING, ONLY RUNNING AND BASKETBALL IS OUT THERE FOR THEM?

WHY DON'T THEY DOMINATE RAW ATHLETIC SPORTS SUCH AS :

SWIMMING, GYMNASTICS, SHOT PUT , JAVELIN , DECATHLON, HAMMER THROW, WALKING RACES , POLE VAULT , HIGH JUMP (DAMN I THOUGHT BLACK MEN COULD JUMP LOL) , TRIPLE JUMP , DISCUS , TRIATHLON , WRESTLING , WEIGHTLIFTING , CYCLING , SKIING , ICE SKATING , DIVING , SWIMMING MARATHONS blah blah blah ? NOBODY STOPS BLACKS FROM DOMINATING ALL THESE WITH THEIR "SUPREME' NATURAL ATHLETICISM, WHY DON'T THEY?

WHY BLACKS DON'T DOMINATE MAJOR INTERNATIONAL SPORTS SUCH AS :
SOCCER, VOLLEY , WATER POLO , RUGBY , CRICKET , HANDBALL , BASEBALL , HOCKEY , TENNIS (STICK TO MEN ALRIGHT, WE TALK MEN SPORTS) , GOLF (ONE IN TOP 100 IS LIKE EMINEM IN HIP HOP) , AUTO AND MOTOR SPORTS , STRONGEST MAN COMPETITION , MMA AND EVEN BOXING ONCE USSR COLLAPSED AND THESE SLAVIC BEAST BECAME PROFESSIONALS?

WHAT IS OUT THERE FOR BLACKS REALLY OTHER THAN FEW RUNNING EVENTS AND BASKETBALL? AMERICAN FOOTBAL? A SPORT THAT ONLY AMERICANS PLAY? THEN AUSSIES DOMINATE AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL TOO, SO WHAT IS YOUR POINT?


WHY I GET NO ANSWER?

BLACKS WON 106 OUT OF 957 MEDALS GIVEN IN OLYMPICS OF 2008 = 11% OF ALL MEDALS

BLACKS WON 2 OUT OF 268 MEDALS GIVEN IN OLYMPICS 2010 = 0,00002 %

LOL

WILL I GET AN ANSWER?? LMAO

this is a good post.

blacks dominate basketball because, and im going to get killed for this, but

the reason is because the inner cities produce more and better basketball

players, does anyone know why??? because they do not go to school or work

and therefore spend more time playing ball and developing...

fact is fact.

however, duke has the best basketball team in the past 2 years and has a

bunch of white guys on it.

[Cash Cow]

First of all i am not an American and i have always had a good laugh hearing ignorant things about sports and race from peeps like Hopkins, Barkley, ****e Lee etc etc

What black American men do? They are being very carefully selective! I went through all 38 pages and all answers and posts and i must admit i am amazed from the lack of knowledge 99,9999999% of people who post in here have. Very poor knowledge and no real statistics back up most arguments.

I will focus only in sports and won't mention Egypt, Greece, Rome, France, Spain blah blah as some people do, since this is a sport forum!

FACTS--- THERE ARE OVER 65 PROFESSIONAL AND OLYMPIC SPORTS WORLDWIDE

FACTS----- OLYMPICS 2008; BLACKS WON ONLY 106 from the 957 medals were given in all sports (11%) of all medals! Rest 89% was won by whites mostly and then Asians, now these are facts, not my personal claims!
Blacks often mention that they dominate the most popular or best sports worldwide hahahahahahahahaha Soccer is number 1 sport, STOP WITH THE PELE NON SENSE FOR ONCE, HE IS NOT EVEN TOP 5 OF ALL TIME ANYMORE!
Fifa chose the 125 greatest players of all time and 101 0f them were Caucasians, the best 11 team of all time, included 1 black Pele and 10 Caucasians (Euros or Hispanics) STOP WITH THE THEORY OF " ONE BLACK IS ENOUGH FOR US TO CLAIM RACIAL SUPERIORITY"

WINTER OLYMPICS 2010-- I WON'T EVEN GO THERE LOL

MORE FACTS--- According to ESPN and Record book of Guiness, the 10 most popular sports worldwide based on TV ratings and ticket sales :
SOCCER -NON BLACK DOMINATED
CRICKET - NON BLACK DOMINATED
RUGBY - NON BLACK DOMINATED
GOLF - NON BLACK DOMINATED (IF ONE MIXED MAN IN TOP 100 MEANS BLACK DOMINATION, THEN WHITES DOMINATED HIP HOP CAUSE OF EMINEM TOO)
TENNIS- NON BLACK DOMINATED
BASKETBALL - BLACK DOMINATED ONLY IN USA, NOT WORLDWIDE
VOLLEYBALL- NOT BLACK DOMINATED
FORMULA 1 - NOT BLACK DOMINATED
BASEBALL - IT LOOKS WHITE, HISPANIC AND ASIAN TO ME, DUNNO MUCH ABOUT THE SPORT THOUGH!


SO HOW THE HECK BLACKS DOMINATE THE BEST OR MAJOR SPORTS IN THE WORLD?

BLACKS DOMINATE SPRINTS AND RUNNING WORLDWIDE, TRUE, THEY DOMINATE A COUPLE OF SPORTS AS NBA AND SPECIFIC POSITIONS IN NFL ONLY IN USA, TRUE, BUT THAT IS NOT EVEN 2% OF THE SPORTING WORLD, ENOUGH WITH YOUR LIES AND CRAZINESS , FACTS AND NUMBERS EXPOSE YOU BAD


If blacks are so supreme athletes why they do not dominate in 99% of the cases sports as high jump (22 of the 27 Olympic champs have been white men, WHO CAN'T JUMP REALLY?) , triple jump, decathlon , shot put, javelin , discus , walking races , hammer throw, pole vault , swimming , gymnastics , cycling , triathlon , wrestling , rowing, weightlifting, Judo , OLYMPIC BOXING FOR DECADES NOW THAT EASTERN EUROS SMASH THEM, MMA , Kickboxing , tennis (enough with Williams non sense, 2 top players out of the 200 all time greats, LET'S TALK MEN SPORTS HERE OK?DO YOU SEE ME CLAIM TAURASI IN BASKETBALL?), strongest man competition etc etc?

FACTS- BLACKS MAKE ABOUT THE SAME POPULATION WITH WHITES WORLDWIDE AND WIN LESS THAN 10% OF MEDALS IN ALL SPORTS OF THE OLYMPICS, WHITES WIN NEARLY 75% OF MEDALS!


I GOT FACTS AND NUMBERS BY MY SIDE, BLACKS GOT TRASH TALKING AND SELECTIVE SPORTS PICKING TO CLAIM THEIR NON SENSE!

It's easy for me to pick a good top 5 white basketball players and claim superiority, or claim dominance in hip hop cause of Eminem, this what blacks do with sports and everything, they even know they lie to themselves!

Last thing, when black dominated USA team got smashed in world championships of 1998,2002,2006 and Olympics of 1988,2004 from white teams such as Argentina, Spain, Greece, USSR, Serbia, WHERE WAS THEIR ATHLETIC SUPERIORITY?

PEACE! OWNED HARD ALL OF YOU CAUSE I BROUGHT NUMBERS AND FACTS, IF YOU BRING ME BETTER NUMBERS AND RATIOS FOR ALL SPORTS THEN OK


Blacks made 22,4% of athletes in Olympics of 2008 in all sports and won 11% of medals (underachieve) , whites made 43,1% of athletes in all sports and won nearly 69% of all medals , ENOUGH SAID!

yeah CLOSE THREAD

but ..Soccer is played all over the world...look how many Central American & African countries that have BLACK players on them...

blacks dont care about RUGBY, we care about football...whats more popular the rugby championships or the Super Bowl?

Blacks dont care about cricket man, tennis and Volleyball....those sports are boring to us.....Golf? boring.....

Also who is the biggest rugby star, cricket star, volleyball star? Now compare them to the biggest Basketball star in America.....now tell me who is more recognizable throughout the world....cause I can guarantee that the most famous Basketball player is far more famous and known than the #1 cricket, rugby & vollyball player in the world

[Gino Ros]

however, duke has the best basketball team in the past 2 years and has a

bunch of white guys on it.

Please name the best white players on the duke team over time.

Now, please name the best black players on duke's teams over time.

Thanks for playing.

[Gino Ros]

yeah CLOSE THREAD

[Cash Cow]

Please name the best white players on the duke team over time.

Now, please name the best black players on duke's teams over time.

Thanks for playing.

Greatest Duke B Ball Player - Grant Hill...Game over...lol

[Gino Ros]

however, duke has the best basketball team in the past 2 years and has a

bunch of white guys on it.

...in a country that is a little over 10% Black:





You may want to pick another example. maybe an example where the country isn't 13% black and duke's team is a third black.

I give the black guys their props. They are athletic.

[iNDOLiFER]

is dumbmican people consider black? Or are they a mixed breed? just wondering didnt really hear about this race until i saw a dumbmican girl on a **** video.. girl got a$$ for dayz!!!