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Thread started 02/26/09 10:13pm

thatruth

Singers/Musicians who excelled in sports

The only time the topic of sports come up on here, it's usually about who's doing the halftime show at the Super Bowl, or the best renditions of the National Anthem. But what about singers who were good at a particular sport.

Of course everybody heard the story about Prince playing basketball on the Chappelle Show, my teacher who's also a Bay Area entertainment lawyer once told the story about how Prince beat the members of Tony Toni Tone in a pick up game and when they told people how good Prince was, nobody believed them.

Are there any other singers who were good athletes as well? I know about Jackie Wilson being a Golden Gloves welterweight champion. Are there any others?
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Reply #1 posted 02/26/09 11:39pm

punkofthemonth

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the only one i could think of is master p, who was playing b-ball for a bit and i'm not sure if he excelled any lol
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Reply #2 posted 02/27/09 2:29am

junebug18

kobe bryant had a song with brian mcknight.

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Reply #3 posted 02/27/09 2:45am

Harlepolis

Didn't Marvin Gaye played with a basketball team at some point? hmmm
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Reply #4 posted 02/27/09 3:10am

alphastreet

^ stevie wonder :p
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Reply #5 posted 02/27/09 4:44am

scorp84

Jackie Jackson (baseball/basketball)
R. Kelly (basketball)
Queen Latifah (basketball)
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Reply #6 posted 02/27/09 5:10am

KeithyT

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I think Glenn Hoddle and Chris Waddle played professional soccer in the UK at one point before they became international pop superstars...
Just somewhere in the middle,
Not too good and not too bad.
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Reply #7 posted 02/27/09 5:46am

JackieBlue

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Bernie Williams - baseball player/guitarist
Wayman Tisdale - basketball player/bassist
Oscar de la Hoya - boxer/singer
Been gone for a minute, now I'm back with the jump off
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