Karl Anthony

Karl Anthony (born March 14, 1967) is a former all-star and award winning Canadian Football League defensive back and Grey Cup champion.

Career

Anthony played his college football at Southwest Missouri State University and first played professionally for three years with the Calgary Stampeders, where he was an all-star in 1993. In 1994 he moved to the Baltimore Stallions he won the Grey Cup's Most Valuable Player in a losing cause against the British Columbia Lions. He helped Baltimore win the Grey Cup in 1995 against his old team, the Calgary Stampeders.

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Karl-Anthony Towns

Karl-Anthony Towns Jr. (born November 15, 1995) is a Dominican-American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the University of Kentucky. Towns was named to the Dominican Republic national basketball team Olympic squad as a 16-year-old, although the Dominican Republic ultimately did not qualify for the 2012 Olympics. He was selected with the first overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Early life

Towns was born in Piscataway, New Jersey to an African American father Karl Towns, Sr. and a Dominican mother Jacqueline Cruz. He attended Lake Nelson Seventh-Day Adventist School, he then went to Theodore Schor Middle School after transferring in from Our Lady of Fatima School in 2009. At Theodore Schor, he repeated seventh grade in order to gain an extra year of development. Towns's father played basketball for Monmouth University and coached basketball at Piscataway Technical High School, where the precocious Towns practiced with the junior varsity team as a fifth grader.