Former NFL player Gerome Sapp creates app where sneakerheads can invest in their obsession

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Former NFL player Gerome Sapp creates app where sneakerheads can invest in their obsession

Gerome Sapp is a sneakerhead, and the former NFL player has created an opportunity for others like him to make

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African-American newspapers

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Alaska Airlines and star NFL quarterback Russell Wilson are coming to the rescue of Seahawk fans across the country by offering to fly two loyal fans to Seattle this weekend to watch the Seahawks battle the New Orleans Saints in their divisional playoff game. In “Russell’s 12th Fan

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Kirby Puckett was a professional baseball player for the Minnesota Twins of the Major Baseball League. He was born on March 14, 1960 in Chicago, Illinois and raised in a public housing project in Chicago. He attended and graduated from Calumet High School, where he played baseball. Due to his short

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Shoeless Joe Jackson

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Buddy (Claude Henry Keystone) Young (1926-).

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