Famous/Celebrity Dads [Archive]

365Duke

01-24-2008, 02:51 PM

I was wondering this morning about our former Duke athletes that have had famous/celebrity fathers. And really, I was surprised at the one's that I could name off the top of my head. Obviously, there must be many more, but the one's I thought of first were;

Nolan Smith - Derek Smith

Gerald Henderson - Gerald Henderson Sr.

Mistie Bass/Williams - Chubby Checker

Kyle Shanahan - Mike Shanahan

Chris Collins - Doug Collins

Mike Dunleavy - Mike Dunleavy Sr.

O.K who else?

jjasper0729

01-24-2008, 02:56 PM

grant hill - calvin hill

jeff staubach - roger staubach (baseball)

Indoor66

01-24-2008, 02:57 PM

Jay Wilkinson/Bud Wilkinson - Football

jjasper0729

01-24-2008, 02:59 PM

steve spurrier jr. - steve spurrier sr. (football)

devildeac

01-24-2008, 02:59 PM

Shane Battier=EVERYBODY'S daddy

Lotus000

01-24-2008, 03:02 PM

Shane Battier=EVERYBODY'S daddy

ZZZZZZINNNGGG!!!!!!

:D

hurleyfor3

01-24-2008, 03:12 PM

Connie Mack, Jr.

The elder Bob Hurley was rather well known in basketball circles

365Duke

01-24-2008, 03:15 PM

jeff staubach - roger staubach (baseball)

I met Roger at Circuit City years ago at a local Circuit City. He said he was there to get a stereo installed in his sons car, and that he was a student at Duke. Doing a quick check today though, I could not find him. I must admit that I was looking in the sport though:o

johnb

01-24-2008, 03:26 PM

golf and a presidential candidate

http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=4200&ATCLID=250295

jjasper0729

01-24-2008, 03:27 PM

dan quayle's son played on the lacrosse team too i think

Bluedog

01-24-2008, 03:28 PM

Joe Pagliuca - Stephen Pagliuca (co-owner of Celtics)

MikeS

01-24-2008, 03:50 PM

Isn't Rudy Guiliani's son on the golf team at Duke?

allenmurray

01-24-2008, 03:59 PM

Chubby Checker - Mistie Bass

I saw Chubby Checker at the women's ACC tournament in Greensboro a few years ago. He was simply elegant. After the game I was in the concourse. When he walked down the hallway he simply commanded the place. He had no entourage, but the crowd parted like Moses parting the Red Sea as he walked through.

He was also incredibly friendly. I must have seen him stop and pose for pictures with folks (most of them 65+ year old women) 20 times. Each time he seemed to be enjoying it as though it was his first concert in 1960.

His niceness passed on to his daughter. When I would see her around town and say something to the effect of "nice game last night", she would always stop, thank me with sincerety and a huge smile. she acted like I had just made her queen of the world simply by commenting on the game.

ugadevil

01-24-2008, 04:10 PM

His niceness passed on to his daughter. When I would see her around town and say something to the effect of "nice game last night", she would always stop, thank me with sincerety and a huge smile. she acted like I had just made her queen of the world simply by commenting on the game.

I'll second the quality of Mistie as a person. A couple years ago, I went to CIS with my dad and brother with the hopes of getting into a men's game. We arrived a few hours early and we were standing outside taking pictures when the women's team started coming out of the building. We didn't seek any of them out, but Mistie came over and talked to us and told us to enjoy ourselves and was extremely polite. It was an extremely nice gesture because it was completely initiated by her and she went out of her way to make us feel welcome. A class act.

greybeard

01-24-2008, 04:33 PM

The walk-on from a few years ago whose old man played at Duke and uncle at Vil. and then the pros.

DangerDevil

01-24-2008, 04:33 PM

Rometra and Roger Craig

greybeard

01-24-2008, 04:34 PM

The father and son LAX guys from last year's near championship team.

lazee

01-24-2008, 04:51 PM

Tom Brokaw's daughter attended Duke (although I can't remember her name). Didn't the camera catch him on TV with the Crazies at a game in the early 90s?

Raleighfan

01-24-2008, 05:18 PM

Tom Brokaw's daughter attended Duke (although I can't remember her name). Didn't the camera catch him on TV with the Crazies at a game in the early 90s?

Don't know about Brokaw. Ted Koppel's daughter was a Dukie and I do remember seeing him at least once at a game....sat a row or two behind where the Keohanes (now the Brodheads) sat.

hurleyfor3

01-24-2008, 05:19 PM

Tom Brokaw's daughter attended Duke (although I can't remember her name). Didn't the camera catch him on TV with the Crazies at a game in the early 90s?

Was she an athlete (which is the topic here)? Anyway, I believe he had *three* daughters who attended Duke. Ted Koppel's daughter is an alumna as well.

OZZIE4DUKE

01-24-2008, 05:25 PM

Sean McManus, president of CBS news and sports, was class of '77. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/26/broadcasts/main981781.shtml
Don't think he was an athlete, but you know his father - sportscaster Jim McKay.

Atldukie79

01-24-2008, 05:35 PM

The walk-on from a few years ago whose old man played at Duke and uncle at Vil. and then the pros.

Perhaps you are thinking of Gary and Lee Melchioni ?

TillyGalore

01-24-2008, 05:38 PM

I think Al Franken's daughter went to Duke. IIRC he mentioned in an interview with a local TV station.

dkbaseball

01-24-2008, 07:02 PM

Bill Werber Jr. and Sr. (Sr. is the oldest living major league player)

Larry Doby Jr. and Sr. (Jr. also played baseball, at Duke)

If we're allowing non-athletes now, Tom Wolfe's daughter attended '98-'02, inspiring the novel "I Am Charlotte Simmons."

dairedevil

01-24-2008, 08:01 PM

What about Danny Ferry? Wasn't his dad GM of Washington?

Indoor66

01-24-2008, 09:21 PM

Dan Hill - Football line in '38-39 + Dan Hill, Jr - Golf '66.

Devil in the Blue Dress

01-24-2008, 09:35 PM

Devil in the Blue Dress

01-24-2008, 09:38 PM

Speaking of children of the famous who were not athletes..... While I was an undergraduate, one of the DeBeers heirs was enrolled in the Woman's College as was Huey Long's granddaughter.

duke74

01-24-2008, 09:40 PM

Isn't Rudy Guiliani's son on the golf team at Duke?

Yup, Andrew. Still remember him as the chubby little kid at one of Rudy's mayoral inaugurations making faces and crawling around. Funny scene.

duke74

01-24-2008, 09:42 PM

I think Al Franken's daughter went to Duke. IIRC he mentioned in an interview with a local TV station.

Yup, with my son (98-02). Also Joe Witte's daughter (NYC weatherman then) and Alexandra Wolfe (Tom's daughter). Also think Ralph Lauren's daughter (Dylan??) attended Duke.

Indoor66

01-24-2008, 10:37 PM

Speaking of children of the famous who were not athletes..... While I was an undergraduate, one of the DeBeers heirs was enrolled in the Woman's College as was Huey Long's granddaughter.

Susie DeBeers

Devil in the Blue Dress

01-24-2008, 10:41 PM

Susie DeBeers
I thought her name was Annie.... but my memory could be wrong!

IStillHateJimBain

01-24-2008, 11:46 PM

Wasn't former NASA astronaut and United Airlines president Frank Borman's grandson a walkon on the men's basketball team in the 1990s?

dukepsy1963

01-24-2008, 11:50 PM

Well, since this has deteriorated into sons/daughters of famous people in general...
In my time:

Sean Flynn- Errol Flynn's son; believe he was MIA in Vietnam (photographer)
John "What's My Line?" Daly's son
Les Brown's son

OZZIE4DUKE

01-25-2008, 01:18 AM

Wasn't former NASA astronaut and United Airlines president Frank Borman's grandson a walkon on the men's basketball team in the 1990s?

Yes, Andy Borman was a scholarship soccer player and walk on to the bball team. He is also Mickey K's nephew (and Coach K's to by marriage).

dukemomLA

01-25-2008, 01:56 AM

Brian Mulroney (former Prime Minister of Canada) has a son, Patrick, who graduated in 2001.

Devilsfan

01-25-2008, 02:48 AM

I thought the thread was famous not most shameful i.e., Air Franken.

365Duke

01-25-2008, 08:32 AM

about James "too quick" Tillis the boxer - Icliss' dad

johnb

01-25-2008, 10:13 AM

This thread is a bit embarrassing, and I hope it doesn't extend into every nonathlete child of a rich person. If so, it would take over as the longest thread ever.

365Duke

01-25-2008, 10:20 AM

This thread is a bit embarrassing, and I hope it doesn't extend into every nonathlete child of a rich person. If so, it would take over as the longest thread ever.

It was intended to be for athletes, but obviously it went past that. I'm sorry you get embarrassed so easy though:o

devildeac

01-25-2008, 11:16 AM

This thread is a bit embarrassing, and I hope it doesn't extend into every nonathlete child of a rich person. If so, it would take over as the longest thread ever.

No, that's already on the off-topic board:D

CathyCA

01-25-2008, 11:59 AM

Tom Heinsohn's son, Paul Heinsohn graduated from Duke in the early '80s. I don't think Paul was an athlete at Duke, but his dad is a former Celtics player and coach.

jjasper0729

01-25-2008, 12:07 PM

chris hammonds (baseball) - tom hammonds (nbc announcer)

SouthgateWindsor

01-25-2008, 01:26 PM

If you want embarrassing....

I went to school with Maurice. Never lent him money, though.

And as we all know, he was a Rothschild. A baron, I believe? ;)

bludev03

01-25-2008, 10:02 PM

Nick Arison (manager '03) = dad Micky Arison (owns Miami Heat and Carnival Cruises; est. worth $5.8 billion; on the Forbes List as #1 in High Scorers)