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Mt. Rushmore of Sports figures
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from the state you live in.  Who would they be and why?  I got to thinking about this a few days ago because Zach Johnson recently won the British Open, and the local radio sports talking heads asked who would be on Iowa's Mt. Rushmore.  Here is a list of people they came up with from Iowa.

Dan Gable- a retired American Olympic wrestler and head coach. He is best known for his tenure as head coach at the University of Iowa where he won 15 NCAA team titles between 1976 and 1997. He is also famous for having only lost one match in his entire Iowa State University collegiate career – his last – and winning a gold medal at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany, while not giving up a single point.[/url]

Bob Feller- nicknamed "The Heater from Van Meter", "Bullet Bob", and "Rapid Robert", was an American [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball]baseball
pitcher who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Indians. Feller pitched from 1936 to 1941 and from 1945 to 1956, interrupted only by a four-year sojourn in the Navy. In a career spanning 570 games, Feller pitched 3,827 innings and posted a win–loss record of 266–162, with 279 complete games, 44 shutouts, and a 3.25 earned run average (ERA).

Nile Kinnick- was a student and a college football player at the University of Iowa. He won the 1939 Heisman Trophy and was a consensus All-American. He died during a training flight while serving as a United States Navy aviator in World War II. Kinnick was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951, and the University of Iowa renamed its football stadium Kinnick Stadium in his honor in 1972.

Shawn Johnson- a retired American artistic gymnast. She is the 2008 Olympic balance beam gold medalist and team, all-around and floor exercise silver medalist.

Kurt Warner- a former American football quarterback, a current part-time TV football analyst, and a philanthropist.[1] He played for three National Football League teams, the St. Louis Rams, the New York Giants, and the Arizona Cardinals. He was originally signed by the Green Bay Packers as an undrafted free agent in 1994 after playing college football at Northern Iowa.[2] Warner went on to be considered the best undrafted NFL player of all time,[3] following a 12-year career regarded as one of the greatest stories in NFL history.

Zach Johnson- an American professional golfer who has 12 victories on the PGA Tour, including two major championships, the 2007 Masters and the 2015 Open Championship.
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Mt. Rushmore of Sports figures - BengalHawk62 - 07-23-2015, 03:15 PM
RE: Mt. Rushmore of Sports figures - J24 - 07-24-2015, 03:27 AM
RE: Mt. Rushmore of Sports figures - J24 - 07-24-2015, 03:37 PM
RE: Mt. Rushmore of Sports figures - jason - 07-25-2015, 03:43 PM

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