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"  Not everyone has Archie Manning&amp;#039;s golden parental touch. When former NFL player and self-proclaimed &amp;quot;sports enhancement specialist&amp;quot; Marv Marinovich&amp;#039;s wife got pregnant, he took a firm hand in guiding his son, Todd. He controlled every aspect of the boy&amp;#039;s life as he prepared him for football superstardom -- &amp;quot;I told him when to eat, what to eat, when to go to bed, when to get up, when to work out, how to work out&amp;quot; -- made certain he played QB at his alma mater USC, and finally saw him drafted by the Raiders. At last out from under Marv&amp;#039;s thumb, Todd imploded, earning the nickname &amp;quot;Marijuanavich&amp;quot; and racking up ten drug-related cases. (By contrast, his NFL career lasted only eight games.) See the parents who, despite failing to specialize in sports enhancement, still did a little better than Marv. 9. Rick Barry and his ex-wife Pamela It&amp;#039;s like Dolemite said: &amp;quot;If you can&amp;#039;t get yourself a 10, go home with five 2&amp;#039;s.&amp;quot; While none of the Barry children approached pop&amp;#039;s gifts on the hardwood (Hall of Famer Rick is the only man to lead the NCAA, ABA, and NBA in scoring), his son Brent became the first Caucasian winner of the NBA Slam Dunk Contest. Two more of his sons, Jon and Drew, made the NBA, while the oldest, Scooter, won the NCAA title with Kansas and played pro ball in Europe. That said, Rick&amp;#039;s never had a reputation as a cuddly guy (one-time teammate Billy Paultz observed, &amp;quot;Half of the players disliked Rick Barry. The other half hated him&amp;quot;) or a good father. In a notorious 1991 Sports Illustrated profile called &amp;quot;Daddy Dearest,&amp;quot; Barry was depicted as a self-absorbed absentee dad who walked out on his family and compared his sons to racehorses. 8. Wladimir Rodionovich and Nadezhda Ulyanovna It&amp;#039;s impressive enough to raise two heavyweight champs (younger son Wladimir Klitschko holds the IBF and IBO titles and fights at the end of the month to regain his WBO belt, while Vitali is a former WBC champ), but the Klitschko brothers have something else in common: PhDs. Yes, Wladimir -- aka Dr. Steelhammer -- has a doctorate in Sports Science, and Vitali possesses a doctor of philosophy in Sports Science, meaning they can shatter a fighter&amp;#039;s ribs and then make him feel insecure about his educational background. 7. Gallant Fox He had a life any man would envy: Three years of competition, followed by 22 years of getting paid to have non-stop sex. While Secretariat may have run faster, Gallant Fox was better in the boudoir and remains the only horse to win the American Triple Crown and sire a winner as well (Omaha). For good measure, he also produced Glanville, who took Horse of the Year in 1936. 6. Press Maravich In many ways, he wasn&amp;#039;t any better than Marv Marinovich. He trained his son relentlessly before coaching him at LSU, where &amp;quot;Pistol&amp;quot; Pete Maravich was a virtual one-man team. Press declared, &amp;quot;We win with Pete. If he gets special treatment, it&amp;#039;s because he is so special,&amp;quot; while Pete mused, &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s hard when your father&amp;#039;s the coach, too. Sometimes you don&amp;#039;t know where one leaves off and the other begins.&amp;quot; Things went downhill from there, as he struggled with alcoholism, his mother&amp;#039;s suicide, and general depression, which may have led to his obsession with aliens -- he painted &amp;quot;TAKE ME&amp;quot; on his roof -- before his death during a pickup game at 40. So why is Press here? From an athletic standpoint, his tactics worked to absolute perfection. Pistol put up a staggering 44.2 points per game in college before averaging a mere 24.2 during a Hall of Fame NBA career. 5. The Alous In 1963, the San Francisco Giants fielded an outfield consisting of three Dominicans. All right, that isn&amp;#039;t particularly unusual, except Felipe, Matty, and Jesus were brothers, marking the first and only time defense has been this much of a family affair. The superb parenting and quality Alou genes have continued with the next generation, as Felipe&amp;#039;s son Moises is a six-time All-Star. 4. Richard Williams When you hear &amp;quot;Compton&amp;quot;, few people think, &amp;quot;Tennis!&amp;quot; So when Richard decided to raise the world&amp;#039;s best tennis players using instructional manuals and videotapes it seemed, well, a little odd. Now, Venus has six grand slam singles titles, Serena has eight, and they have six more as a doubles team, plus an Olympic gold medal. (Not to mention their two terrible fashion lines -- Serena&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Aneres,&amp;quot; and Venus&amp;#039; &amp;quot;EleVen.&amp;quot;) With his girls firmly entrenched in tennis history, Richard has largely abandoned the limelight, leaving behind memories of some of the strangest press conferences ever. The best came in 1999, when Richard was asked about watching his both of daughters beat German legend Steffi Graf in the Lipton Championships: &amp;quot;Actually, Steffi Graf is my favorite player on the Tour, and Venus and Serena would be my second and third... I wanted to see my daughter beat Steffi Graf, but I guess I was hoping Steffi would win, too.&amp;quot; Aw, they love you too, dad. 3. Jiu-Jitsu Grand Master Helio Gracie Now ninety-four years old, this Brazilian is generally credited as the creator of &amp;quot;Gracie Jiu-Jitsu&amp;quot;, which he passed along to his children Rickson, Royler, Royce, and Ultimate Fighting Championship founder Rorion. During the early years of the UFC, the Gracies were unbeatable, creating a style of mixed martial artistry that has provided the blueprint for the entire sport. Today, there are more than one-hundred-and-fifty Gracies (Helio expressed his patriarchal pride when he declared, &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know even half of them&amp;quot;). Brazil&amp;#039;s first family of jiu jitsu is so prevalent that other fighters, like Kazushi &amp;quot;The Gracie Hunter&amp;quot; Sakuraba, have made entire careers fighting Gracies. 2. Archie and Olivia Manning Every morning Archie Manning must ride a unicorn to his gumdrop office, because no man has ever had a more magical life. At Ole Miss, he not only married the homecoming queen, he was so beloved the speed limit on campus has been set to 18 miles per hour in honor of his uniform number. After graduation, Archie became the #2 pick in the 1971 NFL draft and, despite playing on some of the worst teams in NFL history, twice managed to be a Pro Bowl quarterback. These genes were passed on to his son, Peyton, who went on to be a #1 draft pick, surprisingly entertaining Saturday Night Live host, ubiquitous commercial pitchman, Super Bowl winner, and future NFL Hall of Famer. Indeed, things would be absolutely perfect if only Eli (the other quarterback son who, despite appearing to be about 14, also was a #1 draft pick) could just pull it together and...you win this round, Mannings. 1. Futagoyama There&amp;#039;s nothing more frustrating than almost, but not quite, making it to the top. Sumo wrestler Futagoyama knew this misery, watching as his brother reached the highest sumo rank of Yokozuna (or &amp;quot;grand champion&amp;quot;) while he remained a mere ozeki (or &amp;quot;champion&amp;quot;). Fortunately, he had a trump card: reproduction. Since 1624 -- yes, that is nearly 400 years ago -- there have been only 69 Yokozuna and two of them are a result of his sperm. His son Takanohana became a Yokozuna in 1994 and was joined by older brother Wakanohana in 1998. Futagoyama&amp;#039;s joy in this accomplishment was undermined somewhat by his death from mouth cancer at the age of 55, triggering a messy feud between the boys over who would get to be chief mourner. Hey, can&amp;#039;t have it all. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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