knoxville aces “I want to thank all of my fans: Thank you for your support Jabari Greer through a tough year. I has played for the New Orleans love coming back to Saints since 2009; he was a member Knoxville: it’s a place where everyone of the Saints’ XLIV victory wants to hug me in February 2010. Greer graduated from the and give me strength.” University of Tennessee in 2004, after starting as a cornerback for the Volunteers for three years. He signed as an undrafted free agent with in 2004.

Jabari Greer

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Chamique Holdsclaw

Holdsclaw is, quite simply, one of the greatest women’s basketball players ever. At Christ the King in Queens, New York, she won four high school state championships from 1992 through 1995. As a Lady Vol, playing for Pat Summitt, she won three consecutive NCAA championships in 1996, 1997, and 1998. She was a two- “Winning the Super Bowl was pure exhaustion. It’s an time Naismith Award winner, the No. 1 experience of joy and happiness and fulfillment, but the pick of the 1999 WNBA draft, a six-time biggest joy that I had was seeing my children on the 50- yard line with the confetti flowing.A s a kid, I could only professional all-star, and an Olympic watch the Super Bowl from my room at my house, but now Gold medalist. Her recent book, God has blessed me with the opportunity to actually have my children and my family on the 50-yard line with the “Breaking Through: Beating the Odds confetti falling on them. That was the pinnacle. That was Shot After Shot,” details Holdsclaw’s life the best feeling—just sharing that moment with my family. challenges and personal obstacles. Photo courtesy of Michael C. Hebert /

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