{"id":16940,"date":"2012-09-20T15:56:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T19:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16940"},"modified":"2012-09-20T15:56:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T19:56:45","slug":"legends-meet-monthly-to-share-life-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16940","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Legends\u2019 Meet Monthly To Share Life Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY LEON B. CREWS<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Sentinel Staff Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With their days of glory as athletes and\/or coaches gone, a group of men get together twice a month to share their life stories and discuss today\u2019s sports scene and political landscape.<\/p>\n<p>These men call themselves \u201cLegends,\u201d and when you read who they are, you\u2019ll know why.<\/p>\n<p>The youngest athlete of the group, and the first African American athlete to win the Guy Toph Trophy, <strong>Alfred Pyles<\/strong>, said he sits in awe of these gentlemen, and has learned a lot just being around them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese guys have so much history to share, it\u2019s a shame more people don\u2019t come around. Some of them don\u2019t walk as upright as they used to, and for others their speech may be impaired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, their energy level hasn\u2019t changed when they start talking about their past, and what\u2019s going on today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the legends are men like <strong>Morris \u201cBlizz\u201d Everett<\/strong>, <strong>Cleo Stinyard, Sr.<\/strong>, <strong>Troy Collier<\/strong>, <strong>John E. Glenn<\/strong>, <strong>Willie Thompson<\/strong>, <strong>Coach Chuck White<\/strong>, <strong>John Billups<\/strong>, <strong>Bryant Everet<\/strong>t, <strong>Julius Adams<\/strong>, <strong>Willis Everett<\/strong>, <strong>Leroy McBride<\/strong>,<strong> Arthur Dunnigan<\/strong>, <strong>Alfred Pyles,<\/strong> <strong>Henry DuPree<\/strong>, <strong>James Billups<\/strong>, <strong>Coach Billy Reed<\/strong>, and <strong>Arnold \u201cDaddy<\/strong> <strong>Bo\u201d Watson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one is prohibited from being around these gentlemen,\u201d said <strong>Pyles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is living history I\u2019m talking about, and it\u2019s right here for everyone to enjoy. We have to appreciate them while they are still with us, and let them know how grateful we are for the roles they all played in our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY LEON B. CREWS Sentinel Staff Writer With their days of glory as athletes and\/or coaches gone, a group of men get together twice a month to share their life stories and discuss today\u2019s sports scene and political landscape. These men call themselves \u201cLegends,\u201d and when you read who they are, you\u2019ll know why. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}