Oregon athletics walk of fame

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Alan
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I was listening to Clownzono yesterday and he brought up an interest, at least it made me think, topic. He was dealing with the the Hollywood walk of fame....... stars on the sidewalk. If we put a stars walk of fame on a sidewalk in Portland who would be the first five people to go in? They don't have to be a great athlete the only requirement is they were involved in sports but also they had a influence or impact on Oregon and the recognition that followed them. No team all individuals. Mine at this point I may change things up. Not ranking just listing.

1. Phil Knight
2. Bill Walton.....First real championship to Oregon
3. Steve Prefontaine...track town USA
4. Chip Kelly.. the rise of Duck football to a national stage
5. Marcus Mariota...... he could fall out of the top five, but the most recent hiesman to come to Oregon
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Phil Knight
Pre
Bill Walton
Marcus Mariota
Ronnie Lee: The Basketball Ducks under Dick Harter were similar in how they shocked the system, to Kelly and the football team, and Lee was the leader.
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1. Bill Bowerman - His life was just pretty damn amazing and I think what's most impressive was his time in WW2 having Germany surrender Italy to him.
2. Phil
3. Danny Ainge
4. Pre
5. Walton
6. Marcus
7. Scott Brosius
8. Ashton Eaton
9.
10. Terry Baker

I'm leaving #9 open since I know I'm missing some people. We've got quite a few NFL HOF'ers who probably belong on that list too like Fouts, Zimmerman and Rashad (Moore).

Here's a link to the wiki for the actual Oregon Sports Hall of Fame
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Glad Duck07 mentioned Bowerman and Terry Baker.

Clyde Drexler is up there with Walton.

Pick any names off this list: https://sos.oregon.gov/blue-book/Pages/ ... ympic.aspx
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a slam dunk candidate who no one has mentioned: dick fosbury.
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oregontrack wrote:a slam dunk candidate who no one has mentioned: dick fosbury.
X1! A name I have not heard mentioned yet! Changed the high jump world!
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oregontrack wrote:a slam dunk candidate who no one has mentioned: dick fosbury.
I'd call him a flop for sure.
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