Okay, check out the articles in both the Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press:
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070613/SPORTS18/706130353/1048/SPORTS
I can sum up here… On Tuesday, June 12th at a press conference from the Detroit Athletic Club, the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame announced their 2007 class of inductees. Eleven names are on the list, including my boss Pete Karmanos (hockey owner, etc…) and one name that our family is very close to, Clarke Scholes. We’ve known him for years through the theatre group, and years before that, he won Gold at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics as the “Fastest Man in the Water”, the 100 meter freestyle.
He’s humble about it today. But he can strut his stuff as he is now a member of the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame. (He’s already in the International Swimming Hall of Fame, as well as in the inaugural class of the Michigan State University Sports Hall of Fame.)
One of the other “notable” names, is a certain local hockey player. He posed for pictures and was as nice as can be. Clarke is pretty proud to be inducted with the Detroit Red Wings Captain of 22 years, Steve Yzerman!
I can sum up here… On Tuesday, June 12th at a press conference from the Detroit Athletic Club, the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame announced their 2007 class of inductees. Eleven names are on the list, including my boss Pete Karmanos (hockey owner, etc…) and one name that our family is very close to, Clarke Scholes. We’ve known him for years through the theatre group, and years before that, he won Gold at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics as the “Fastest Man in the Water”, the 100 meter freestyle.
He’s humble about it today. But he can strut his stuff as he is now a member of the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame. (He’s already in the International Swimming Hall of Fame, as well as in the inaugural class of the Michigan State University Sports Hall of Fame.)One of the other “notable” names, is a certain local hockey player. He posed for pictures and was as nice as can be. Clarke is pretty proud to be inducted with the Detroit Red Wings Captain of 22 years, Steve Yzerman!
