Re: Most intelligent athletes
Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2018 7:15 am
Oscar Pistorius
Nieghorn wrote:Isn't Brendan Venter a doc as well? Castaignede has an engineering degree (not sure if he does anything with it).
Not in NZ. It has always been a sport for everyone. Except, perhaps, the gays.Wilson's Toffee wrote:Rugby was a sport for an elite, where education and intelligence are more easily manifested.
naki wrote:Not in NZ. It has always been a sport for everyone. Except, perhaps, the gays.Wilson's Toffee wrote:Rugby was a sport for an elite, where education and intelligence are more easily manifested.
Nieghorn wrote:Isn't Brendan Venter a doc as well?
Agreed. It's insane when they tell the athlete what they must have been thinking before their debut or something.Nieghorn wrote:To be fair to many athletes, the people doing the interviewing ask questions ranging from 'already answered the question with the question' to 'completely inane'.
CGW's "Yeah, Definitely!" segment showed that they always get closed questions with obvious responses (but it seems they've taken them all down from youtube )
... found a supercut on fb: https://www.facebook.com/CrowdGoesWild/ ... 415448764/
Magic Johnson, a genius on the Basketball court and a massively successful businessman. I think he won awards for most successful afro-american business man multiple times.shereblue wrote:Michael Johnson might not be an intellectual but he is a mature and intelligent commentator and successful business man - as well as having been an amazing 200 and 400m runner.
It's accepted that Saffers are smarter people in general.Brumby_in_Vic wrote:Venter is a practising GP. Jannie du Plessis has trained to become a full time doctor after his Rugby career finishes.Nieghorn wrote:Isn't Brendan Venter a doc as well? Castaignede has an engineering degree (not sure if he does anything with it).
Amaechi, also the first gay player to come out in the NBA, surely the intellectual type and definitely not one of the best so exactly to the point. His case is more understandable as large body 7footers with a bit of mobility are so rare there's been lots of pretty avg centers in the NBA.Nieghorn wrote:Growing up, being a devotee of the NBA and NFL, I was always interested which of them actually got through uni without struggling. Probably most, but there were always stories of the rampant boosters and coaches doing whatever to keep their best athletes in 'The Program' (the film by that name a stark look at it).Dork Lard wrote: Definitely the consistent more clever role player...but there's room in RU for the hardworking type that isn't blessed with incredible athleticism where it's less common in for eg basketball I'd say where explosiveness/athletic ability will practically guarantee you a spot. There have been clever bball players, but I mean actually intelligent, not just high basketball/Rugby/soccer IQ but, straight-up high IQ.
David Robinson and Grant Hill were two who went four years at school and seem very intelligent.
John Amaechi is now a psychologist and has some great things to say about life and sport: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/26/spor ... index.html
https://soundcloud.com/your-brain-on-sp ... nba-career
Unless the gay man has the strongest right shoulder!naki wrote:Not in NZ. It has always been a sport for everyone. Except, perhaps, the gays.Wilson's Toffee wrote:Rugby was a sport for an elite, where education and intelligence are more easily manifested.