It'll be a night to remember, for sure.
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf will be at the head table.
So will Lance Armstrong, Patrick Ewing, Emmitt Smith, Wade Boggs, Dean Smith, Tony Hawk (yay!), Michael Chang and Beverly Kearney.
Tom Brokaw (shown) will be master of ceremonies.
Also to be honoured in New York City's Waldorf Astoria Grand Ballroom on September 19 is someone you know.
John Vanbiesbrouck.
Here's the announcement from the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis: ******************* The Great Sports Legends Dinner pledges to bring The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis more than two million dollars closer to a cure.
Over the past twenty years, more than $29,000,000 has been raised at the Sports Legends Dinners, making it the cornerstone of The Miami Project's annual budget.
The Sports Legends Dinner has gained a reputation for uniting individuals from the worlds of sports, business and entertainment.
Over 1,300 people attend this gala event each year, which honors Great Sports Legends from different athletic categories.
This year again, we are honored to have Tom Brokaw be our master of ceremonies.
We are thrilled to be honoring General H. Norman Schwarzkopf as our Great American Icon recipient, the Chambers Family as our Buoniconti Fund Humanitarian Award recipient and Craig H. Neilsen as our Outstanding Business Leader.
2005 Legends: Lance Armstrong, Patrick Ewing, Emmitt Smith, Wade Boggs, Dean Smith, Tony Hawk, John Vanbiesbrouck, Michael Chang and Beverly Kearney.
2004 Legends were: Ray Bourque, Tony Dorsett, Lenny Wilkens, Ozzie Smith, Hal Sutton, K. C. Jones, Mike Richter, Gary Hall Jr., Don Garlits, Phil Mahre and Bob Costas.
We were also thrilled to honor golfing legend Jack Nicklaus as our Buoniconti Fund Humanitarian Award recipient, Oscar Award Winner Tommy Lee Jones as our Outstanding Philanthropist and Outback Steakhouse Founder Tim Gannon as our Charitable Business Leader recipient.
When Tuesday, September 19, 2006
5:30 p.m. Cocktail Reception & Silent Auction
7:30 p.m. Dinner and Live Auction
Business Attire Where
Waldorf Astoria Grand Ballroom Park Avenue at 50th Street New York, New York
Past Legends and Honorees
Hank Aaron | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Amy Alcott | Muhammad Ali | Marcus Allen | Lyle Alzado | Mario Andretti | Michael Andretti | Eddie Arcaro | Arthur Ashe | Red Auerbach | Jerry Bailey | Charles Barkley | Rick Barry | Carmen Basilio | Bob Beamon | Johnny Bench | Yogi Berra | Bonnie Blair | George Blanda | Julius Boros | Mike Bossy | Ray Bourque | Scotty Bowman | Bill Bradley | George Brett | Jim Brown | Dick Butkus | Rod Carew | Gary Carter | Billy Casper | Nadia Comenici | Bart Conner | Jimmy Conners | Angel Cordero, Jr. | Bob Costas | Jim Courier | Bob Cousy | Walter Cronkite | Larry Csonka | Oscar de la Hoya | Donna de Varona | Dave DeBusschere | Gail Devers | Joe DiMaggio | Marcel Dionne | Mike Ditka | Tony Dorsett | Roy Emerson | Mike Eruzione | Julius Erving | Phil Esposito | Gloria Estefan | Chris Evert | Bob Feller | Mary Joe Fernandez | Carlton Fisk | Emerson Fittipaldi | Bruce Fleisher | Peggy Fleming | Ray Floyd | Whitey Ford | George Foreman | A. J. Foyt | Joe Frazier | Walt Frazier | Rowdy Gaines | Tim Gannon | Don Garlits | Boom Boom Geoffrion | Ed Giacomin | Althea Gibson | Frank Gifford | Rod Gilbert | Pancho Gonzales | Evonne Goolagong | Wayne Gretzky | Darrell Gwynn | Gary Hall, Jr. | Scott Hamilton | Dorothy Hamill | Mia Hamm | Franco Harris | John Havlicek | Larry Holmes | Evander Holyfield | Gordie Howe | Bobby Hull | Jim "Catfish" Hunter | Julio Igelesias | Hale Irwin | Dan Jansen | Bruce Jenner | Jimmy Johnson | Michael Johnson | Rafer Johnson | K. C. Jones | Roy Jones, Jr. | Tommy Lee Jones | Michael Jordan | Florence Griffith Joyner | Jackie Joyner-Kersee | Jim Kelly | David Kiley | Bernard King | Billie Jean King | Roger King | Franz Klammer | Olga Korbut | Julie Krone | Mike Krzyzewski | Guy Lafleur | Pat LaFontaine | Tom Landry | Bob Lanier | Tommy Lasorda | Rod Laver | Greg LeMond | Mario Lemieux | Sugar Ray Leonard | Marv Levy | Carl Lewis | Lennox Lewis | Nancy Lopez | Greg Louganis | Jerry Lucas | John Madden | Phil Mahre | Mickey Mantle | Dan Marino | John McEnroe | Frank McGuire | Rick Mears | Stan Mikita | Johnny Miller | Earl "The Pearl" Monroe | Joe Montana | Archie Moore | Edwin Moses | Stan Musial | Joe Namath | Martina Navritalova | Cam Neely | NFL Hall of Fame Class 2001 | Jack Nicklaus | Greg Norman | Ken Norton | Dan O'Brien | Al Oerter | Bobby Orr | Jim Palmer | Bill Parcells | Robert Parish | Ara Parseghian | Benny Parsons | Floyd Patterson | Walter Payton | Willie Pep | Roger Penske | Richard Petty |Laffit Pincay, Jr. | Denis Potvin | Don Prudhomme | Bobby Rahal | Mike Richter | Pat Riley | Cal Ripken, Jr. | Phil Rizzuto | Oscar Robertson | Brooks Robinson | David Robinson | Chi Chi Rodriguez | Wilma Rudolph | Johnny Rutherford | Jim Ryun | Barry Sanders | Gale Sayers | Mike Schmidt | Tom Seaver | Willie Shoemaker | Don Shula | Charlie Sifford | Ozzie Smith | Stan Smith | Sam Snead | Randy Snow | Bart Starr | Roger Staubach | Curtis Strange | Picabo Street | Danny Sullivan | Pat Summerall | Hal Sutton | Lawrence Taylor | Isiah Thomas | Jenny Thompson | John Thompson | Tony Trabert | Bryan Trottier | Ron Turcotte and Secretariat | Johnny Unitas | Al Unser, Jr. | Al Unser, Sr. | Ken Venturi | Dick Vermeil | Francis T. Vincent, Jr. | Virginia Wade | Bill Walsh | Bill Walton | Darrell Waltrip | Lenny Wilkens | Ralph Wilson | Katarina Witt | Kristi Yamaguchi | Cale Yarborough
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