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Joan Allen
An Oscar-nominated actress. Because of her Eastern ties, she'll never win.

Calli Cox
What do you do with an elementary education degree from EIU? Why, porn of course!

Kevin Duckworth
The NBA's greatest 300-pound center ever to come from Eastern.

Gov. Jim and
Brenda Edgar
The former Illinois governor loves Eastern so much he now works at the University of Illinois.

Joan Embery
Her EIU degree qualified her to feed animals at the San Diego zoo.

Jeff Gossett
As a Raiders punter, he worked more often than any Eastern grad.

Burl Ives
Getting kicked out of Eastern launched this folk legend's career.

John Jurkovic
Meet the school's best pro-football player: A mediocre lineman.

Danny from The Shining
Danny’s at EIU Mrs. Torrence

Fabulous Moolah, Uncle Elmer, Abdullah the Butcher, Booker T and Matt Hughes
EIU's real strength: violence.

John Malkovich
Hates the school. Has a great movie career. Any questions?

Marty Pattin
More Eastern students have had a beer in his name than any other person in history.

Kevin Seitzer
Baseball star who swings for Jesus.

Mike Shanahan
Head coach of the Denver Broncos. Similarities between Denver and Eastern? Both high.

Larry Smith
Why is he famous?

Triumph
EIU: A great school – for me to poop on!

Jerry Van Dyke
'Coach' co-star learned to play dumb at Eastern.

So why does everyone on the internet make fun of Kevin Duckworth!?

Even years after his retirement, Eastern Illinois University's favorite basketball player gets verbally thrashed across the internet. People in fantasy leagues, the mainstream press and especially this craphouse website called OnHoops call him one of the worst players in the NBA. They make fun of his weight and one online punk even suggested Duckworth write a foreward for the book Eating What You Like and Maintaining Proper Weight.

This goes too far. Only people who went to Eastern Illinois University can make fun of someone from Eastern Illinois University.

So the EIU Hall of Fame wants loyal alums to help wage an email-and-chat-room war to defend Kevin Duckworth . Go into chat rooms and stick up for Duck! Tell them about Duckworth's two all-star appearances and his Most Improved Player Award. Email them about his career highs in points (32, three times!) and rebounds (18).

Who should you email? How can you do your part on your own homepage? Just check below, Duckworth fans.

The Worst Offender
Duck's life has taken a sad turn and he needs your help. Duckworth is a key prosecution witness in a 12-year-old double homicide case in which two brothers -- one a former Duckworth pal -- face charges of aggravated murder, according to the Portland Oregonian. Duckworth was one of several people whom the defendants confessed to after the 1991 shooting.

Duckworth told the press he never came forward because he didn't consider Foreman's statements to be a confession, in part because Foreman smirked when he gave the account. Duckworth said Foreman was always bragging. "If it was a confession, and I knew it, I would have said something," he told the newspaper.

It's important to write the local paper to remind people how nice of a guy Duckworth has been all these years!

Other Anti-Duck Jerks
Cheap shots come from everywhere. Jerkface New York Post reporter Fred Kerber took a shot at Duckworth in a February 2003 piece about Michael Jordan in an all-star game.

"And so Jordan - who said that, honest to gosh, he means it this time, no more comebacks - will leave the game that he help popularize on a global level with one final All-Star appearance. Only one player ever produced an All-Star Game triple-double. Suffice to say it wasn't Kevin Duckworth ."

Write The New York Post's Sports Editors to complain.

Then, another sportswriter - this time L.Z. Granderson of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution - tried in Februrary 2003 to disparage Duck's All-Star appearances versus the likes of overrated Eddie Johnson.

Shooting star Eddie Johnson (not the former Hawks player) scored more than 19,000 points and shot better than 47 percent for his 17-year career but not once was selectedthought of as an All-Star.

In 1989, Johnson averaged 21.5 points and still lost out to the likes of Kevin Duckworth , who finished with a career average of less than 12 points a game.

"It's funny," said Johnson, now a television analyst for the Phoenix Suns. "Especially when you think about the coaches not selecting me. Here they are devising their scouting report with emphasis on stopping me from influencing the game and then I'm not selected. One year I was scoring 21 points in 27 minutes, and I still was not an All-Star."

Whatever.

Then there is OnHoops. The creators of this site have delivered consistent backhanded slaps to our hooping hero both during his career and after. In May 1997, they nominated Duckworth for "The Jenny Craig Chuck," saying it was hard to believe Duckworth was an all-star. Lucky for them, Greg Ostertag won the award.

But in 1996, Duckworth was nominated to "The Bolted to the Floor Chuck Award," along with past and present players Bill Cartwright, Gheorghe Muresan, Ulianna Semenova, James Edwards, James Donaldson, and Joe and Danny Schliene. I have no idea who those last two are.

OnHoops snipes at Kevin by saying "this four hundred pound duck will never soar again" and then gives our honored alum the award "because at least Georghe tries."

This site has also kept up the insults since Duck’s departure from the NBA. Their fantasy league section includes a division called The Kevin Duckworth League: Where there are no weight penalty clauses in contracts. In addition, in May 1999 they changed the named of “The Jenny Craig Chuck” to The Duckworth Chuck. Read closely! The title of The Duckworth Chuck page is “simple kevin met a pieman, going to the fair.”

OnHoops fittingly died back in 2001 (no doubt because of the Duckworth slights). So we keep their attacks on record to show what happens when you mess with Kevin Duckworth .

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