{"id":643,"date":"2009-02-09T04:04:49","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T12:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/09\/2008-%e2%80%93-2009-year-of-sigma-champions\/"},"modified":"2009-02-22T09:02:08","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T17:02:08","slug":"2008-%e2%80%93-2009-year-of-sigma-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/09\/2008-%e2%80%93-2009-year-of-sigma-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 ? 2009 Year of Sigma Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past NFL, NCAA, and MLB season has been a championship year for the athletes who are members of Phi Beta Sigma International Fraternity, Inc. Below please find the players and coaches who are Sigmas that have won championships:<br \/>\n<u><br \/>\nMajor League Baseball ? World Champion Philadelphia Phillies<\/u><br \/>\nBro. Ryan Howard, First Baseman<\/p>\n<p><u>NCAA Football ? National Champion University of Florida Gators<\/u><br \/>\nBro. Brandon Antwine, Defensive Tackle<br \/>\nBro. Roderick Blackett, Linebacker<br \/>\nBro. Jermaine Cunningham, Defensive End<br \/>\nBro. Charlie Strong, Defensive Coordinator<br \/>\n<u>NCAA Football ? National Subdivision Champion University of Richmond Spiders<\/u><br \/>\nBro. Mike London, Head Coach<\/p>\n<p><u>National Football League ? Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh Steelers<\/u><br \/>\nBro. Charlie Batch, Quarterback<br \/>\nBro. Deshea Townsend, Cornerback<br \/>\nBro. Hines Ward, Wide Receiver<\/p>\n<p><u>National Football League &#8211; NFC Champion Arizona Cardinals<\/u><br \/>\nBro. Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, Cornerback<\/p>\n<p><u>U.S. Olympic Track &#038; Field &#8211; Beijing Summer Olympics Bronze Medalist<\/u><br \/>\nBro. Walter Dix, Mens 100m, 200m<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all the Sigma men in professional and collegiate athletics who won championships this past season! If I missed the names of other Sigma brothers who belong on this list, please post their information on this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past NFL, NCAA, and MLB season has been a championship year for the athletes who are members of Phi Beta Sigma International Fraternity, Inc. Below please find the players and coaches who are Sigmas that have won championships: Major League Baseball ? World Champion Philadelphia Phillies Bro. Ryan Howard, First Baseman NCAA Football ? &#8230; <a title=\"\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/09\/2008-%e2%80%93-2009-year-of-sigma-champions\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2008 ? 2009 Year of Sigma Champions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}