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here’s a good 50-year gap in the story of basketball’s evolution. We go from the game’s invention late in the 19th century and fast forward to the NBA’s late-1940s inception. In the interim, though, there were the Black Fives (teams were called “fives” in reference to their five starters). They were amateur, semi-pro and professional teams sponsored mostly by churches, athletic clubs, social clubs and “colored” YMCAs. The basketball equivalents to baseball’s storied Negro League were the Philadelphia Panthers, the Los Angeles Red Devils, the Washington 12 Streeters and many more, including the historic New York Renaissance (Rens). The Rens, from 1923 to 1948, won a dumbfounding 2,588 of 3,117 games and whose watershed rivalry with all-white Original Celtics (of New York) helped put the entire team in the Hall of Fame.
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n 1919, when Fritz aron Glenn Pollard first bebrings 19 years gan playing footof playing, front office and coaching ball in the NFL, sports was one experience to the Saints staff in of only a few opportunities for his first season in New Orleans. African Americans to advance From 2014-15, Glenn served as the assistant secondary coach with the Cleveland Browns. In a 2015 campaign where starting cornerback Joe Haden played in only five games due to injuries, Cleveland’s secondary was led by veterans in S Donte Whitner and CB Tramon Williams, who led the defensive backfield with 81 and 69 tackles respectively. In 2014, Glenn worked with a defensive backs unit that garnered Pro Bowl honors from S Tashaun Gipson, Haden and Whitner, marking the first time in team history that three defensive backs were selected to the Pro Bowl.
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their social and economic status. He may not have been the first black man to play professional football, but he certainly was one of the most influential of his time, emerging as a dominant force in the quest to keep the NFL integrated. Throughout his career, he continued to struggle to allow African Americans to retain their rights to play the game of football at the highest possible level. His pioneering efforts had a lasting impact that helped delay the eventual segregation of the NFL, and through Fritz Pollard’s unparalleled dedication and love of football,...
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Spittin’ at the water cooler From the Publisher
ories of my first sports memories.
This week’s blessing is “A Heart Transplant”. By Max Lucado:
Since, this is Black history month .
At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. John 14:20
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When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor. “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you” (Ezekeil 36:26; see also John 14:20; Romans 8:10; Galatians 2:20). You might call it a spiritual heart transplant.
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Tara Storch understands this miracle as much as anyone can. In the spring of 2010, a skiing accident took the life of her thirteen-year-old daughter, Taylor. What followed was every parent’s worst nightmare: a funeral, a burial, a flood of questions and tears. Tara and her husband, Todd, decided to donate their daughter’s organs to needy patients. Few people needed a heart more that Patricia Winters. Her heart had begun to fail five years earlier, leaving her too weak to do much more than sleep. Taylor’s heart gave Patricia a fresh start on life. i.e. John Q Tara had only one request: she wanted to hear the heart of her daughter. She and Todd flew from Dallas to Phoenix and went to Patricia’s home to listen to Taylor’s heart. The two mothers embraced for a long time. Then Patricia offered Tara and Todd a stethoscope. When they listened to the healthy rhythm, whose heart did they hear? Did they not hear the still-beating heart of their daughter? And when God hears your heart, does he not hear the still-beating heart of His Son? Now time to spit at the water cooler!!!
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This is the time of the sports year, where things are kind of settled. The Super Bowl, was just played and baseball season has not started yet. Basketball just finished the trade deadline and we have not made it to the All-Star break yet. Hockey is almost in the same boat as the NBA, that’s if you follow hockey. So, having said all of that what is it that I have to talk about. Well, me not being short of words, I would like to reflect on some of my fondest mem-
I think I became interested in sports, football, to narrow it down and to really pin-point it the Dallas Cowboys. That was in 1977. I was 7 years old and would watch the games every once in a while before that time, but I remember going to the shcool libary (which I hated going), but we had to read a book to pass the time away when we were in trouble (I did that a lot). I didn’t like reading very much so I would grab books with very little pages. One of the first books that I picked up was a book about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I found myself reading the book and became interested about his life. So, I looked for more books about Dr. King and had no luck finding more books about him. I had to think quick because the time was not going by too fast and I was stuck in the libary (which I hated). So I looked for more books the size of the the King book I just read. It was quick, interesting, and to the point. That led me to Tony Dorsett. The Dallas Cowboys had just drafted him and I’d remember my dad watching the Cowboys all the time. So I started reading and the start of his story kind of sounded like mine. My brother loved the sport and I could care less but my dad made me play and so the only thing I did when he made me play was run the ball. What was very interesting is Tony would act like he was playing by dragging his pants in the dirt and mud to make it look like he played to his brothers. That was the start for me, I read that book and others about Dorsett and the things he was able to accomplish, then watching him on TV, I couldn’t get enough. Later on I was able to meet him and we did a cover story on him, which he kept. But everytime I have seen him, we would have some pretty deep conversations. We don’t see each other often but when we do it is always a treat for me. So Tony, even though my father and brother introduced me to football, Thank you for your influence.
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2018 TBSHOF Inducts Rita Crockett - Aaron Glenn
Rita Crockett
Aaron Glenn
Considered as one of the best all-round volleyball players ever in the world, Rita Crockett has been a trailblazer in the sport of volleyball for parts of five decades and continues to be active in the sport today.
Aaron Glenn brings 19 years of playing, front office and coaching experience to the Saints staff in his first season in New Orleans.
Rita continued channeling her energies into her volleyball career. In 1981, she was voted to the All-World Team as one of the top six players as she played a key role in the U.S. placing fourth at the FIVB World Cup in Osaka, Japan. One year later, Rita and her American teammates captured the bronze medal at the FIVB World Championship in Lima, Peru. Outside of the U.S. National Team program, Rita played 16 years of professional volleyball in Japan, Italy and Switzerland. From 1982 to 1986, she honed her skills in Japan’s V-League playing for Daiei. In her final season with Daiei, she helped lead the squad to the V-League title. Rita returned to the United States to play in the new Major League Volleyball league from 1986-87, earning the league’s most valuable player award in 1987. During this time, she moved into the coaching field serving as an assistant with Long Beach State University from 1986 to 1988. While not competing in the MLV or coaching, Rita took to the sand and became an accomplished beach volleyball star competing on the Women’s Professional Volleyball Association Tour from 1988 to 1996. In 1989, she teamed with Volleyball Hall of Famer Jackie Silva to win the World Beach Volleyball Championship to become the first African-American woman to earn the title. Rita transferred her skills to the Swiss League from 1993 to 1998 as she played for RTV Basel, doubling as the team’s head coach. RTV Basel won the Swiss Cup from 1994 to 1996, the Swiss Championship from 1995 to 1996 and participated in the European Cup of Champions in 1995. Rita, who also served as the Swiss National Team Head Coach in 1995, was named most valuable player of the league four times.
After her playing career ended in 1998, Rita continued to coach back in the United States. She served as the head coach at the University of Iowa from 1998 to 2004 before taking on the associate head volleyball coach role at Florida State University in 2004 to 2005. From 2000 to 2002, she was active within USA Volleyball High Performance pipeline coaching youth volleyball players. Rita, who was named to USA Volleyball’s Women’s All-Era Team for 1978 to 2003, established the Rita Crockett Academy in 2005 and serves as the director and head court trainer for the North Florida Volleyball Academy.
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From 2014-15, Glenn served as the assistant secondary coach with the Cleveland Browns. In a 2015 campaign where starting cornerback Joe Haden played in only five games due to injuries, Cleveland’s secondary was led by veterans in S Donte Whitner and CB Tramon Williams, who led the defensive backfield with 81 and 69 tackles respectively. In 2014, Glenn worked with a defensive backs unit that garnered Pro Bowl honors from S Tashaun Gipson, Haden and Whitner, marking the first time in team history that three defensive backs were selected to the Pro Bowl. The Browns led the NFL in opponent passer rating (74.1), completion percentage (57.1) and passes defensed (99). Cleveland finished second in the league with 21 interceptions, the team’s highest total since 2008. They also finished fifth in the league in yards per pass attempt (6.44), fifth in red zone defense (46.3) and ninth in points per game (21.1). Prior to joining the Browns, Glenn spent two seasons (2012-13) in the New York Jets front office. He served as a college area scout in 2013, after a season as a pro personnel scout. A first-round pick (12th overall) by the Jets in 1994 out of Texas A&M, Glenn started 176 of his 205 career games during his tenure with New York (1994-2001), Houston (2002-04), Dallas (2005-06), Jacksonville (2007) and New Orleans (2008). A three-time Pro Bowler (1997-98, 2002), Glenn recorded 661 career tackles, 41 interceptions and 167 passes defensed. He scored eight career touchdowns, including six interceptions returns, a 96-yard kickoff return and a 104-yard return on a missed field goal. Glenn earned a degree in business management from Texas A&M, where he was a two-time All-American, departing as the school’s all-time leader in passes defensed in a season (20), season punt-return average (19.9) and punt return yards in a game (131). In 2003, he established the Aaron Glenn Foundation, which supports education and health initiatives for families and children. PLAYING CAREER: Navarro (Texas) JC, 1990-91; Texas A&M, 1992-93; New York Jets, 1994-2001,
Houston Texans, 2002-04; Dallas Cowboys, 200506; Jacksonville Jaguars, 2007; New Orleans Saints 2008.
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number of African-American female athletes have emerged as trailblazers in their particular sports over the years, from track and field and tennis to figure skating and basketball. The struggles and hard-won glory of pioneers such as Alice Coachman, Althea Gibson, Wilma Rudolph and Lynette Woodard helped pave the way for later generations of sports greats like Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Sheryl Swoopes and Venus and Serena Williams. THE PIONEERS One of the first women’s track teams in the United States began at the all-black Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in 1929. Three years later, Louise Stokes and Tidye Pickett qualified for the 1932 Olympics in track and field, but were not allowed to participate in the event (held in Los Angeles) because of their race. In Berlin in 1936, Stokes and Pickett became the first African-American women to represent their country in the Olympics. Alice Coachman, a star track and field athlete at Tuskegee Institute, became the first black woman to win Olympic gold, setting records with her high jump at the 1948 Olympics in London. Coachman, who dominated her sport, would likely have won more medals if the 1940 and 1944 Olympics had not been canceled due to World War II. Another pioneering black female athlete, tennis player Ora Washington, won her first American Tennis Association singles title in 1929. She held the title for the next seven years, until 1936, then regained it once again in 1937. Washington’s record of seven consecutive ATA titles would stand until 1947, when it was broken by the great Althea Gibson, who won 10 straight titles. BARRIERS COME DOWN The debut of Jackie Robinson as the first African-American player on a major league baseball team–the Brooklyn Dodgers–in 1947 was a major milestone in the history of African Americans in sports. Barriers continued to come down throughout the next few decades: In 1950, Gibson became the first black player (male or female) to compete in a U.S. Lawn Tennis Association (USLTA) event, the national championship at Forest
History.COM Hills, in Queens, New York. A year later, she repeated that historic first at Wimbledon. Gibson won her first Grand Slam singles title at the French Open in 1956, and then won back-toback titles at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in 1957 and ’58. The Associated Press voted Gibson the Female Athlete of the Year in both 1957 and ’58; she was the first African-American woman to hold that honor. After retiring from amateur tennis in 1958, Gibson launched another pioneering effort in 1964, when she became the first black women to join the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA). If Gibson was an inspiration in the tennis world, Wilma Rudolph proved equally so in the realm of track and field. Stricken by polio as a young girl, Rudolph regained her strength and went on to win three gold medals (in the 100- and 200-meter dash and 400-meter relay) at the 1960 Olympics in Rome. She was the first American woman to accomplish that feat, and in 1961 she became the first black woman to win the James E. Sullivan Award, America’s highest honor in amateur athletics. (She was also the AP’s female athlete of the year in 1960 and ’61.) Rudolph’s compatriot Willye White was the first American woman to compete in five Olympic Games (1956, 1960, 1964, 1968 and 1972); she won silver in the long jump in 1956 and in the 4×100-meter relay in 1964. MORE TRIUMPHS Another historic first came in 1985, when Lynette Woodard became the first woman to join the famous Harlem Globetrotters basketball team. Around the same time, Cheryl Miller became one of the most decorated high school and collegiate women’s basketball players in history, leading the U.S. team to a gold medal in the 1984 Olympics. In 1986, Debi Thomas became the first black woman
to win the U.S. figure skating singles championship; she was also the world champion that year, as well as a bronze medalist at the 1988 Winter Olympics. The late 1980s marked a golden era for American women in track and field, as Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Florence GriffthJoyner dominated the Olympics. Joyner-Kersee, whom many described as the best allaround female athlete in the world at the time, competed in the long jump and the grueling two-day-long heptathlon, winning two golds at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Korea. She repeated as the Olympic heptathlon champ in 1992. Griffith-Joyner, dubbed “Flo-Jo,” earned a reputation as “the fastest woman in the world,” smashed world records at the Seoul Olympics, winning gold in the 100- and 200-yard runs and anchoring the gold-medal-winning U.S. 4×100-meter relay team. Both Joyner-Kersee and Griffith-Joyner were winners of the AP’s Female Athlete of the Year and the Sullivan Award. A NEW GENERATION In 1996, former Texas Tech University basketball star Sheryl Swoopes became the first player to
sign with the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), which made its debut the following year. While at Texas Tech, Swoopes had been named the AP Female Athlete of the Year for basketball as well as the National Player of the Year by nine different organizations, including USA Today and Sports Illustrated. An Olympic gold medalist in 1996, 2000 and 2004, Swoopes played for the WNBA’s Houston Comets for 11 years and was named the league’s MVP three times. She later played for the Seattle Storm. Other African-American women who have starred in the WNBA over its history include Woodard (the former Globetrotter signed with the league in its inaugural season and played until 1999, finally fulfilling her dream of playing in a women’s pro basketball league) Cynthia Cooper, Lisa Leslie and Tina Thompson. Althea Gibson’s worthy legacy got new life in the 21st century, with the extraordinary careers of Venus and Serena Williams. Though her younger sister Serena was the first Williams to win a Grand Slam singles title (the 1999 U.S. Open) Venus emerged at the top of her game in 2000, winning her first Slam–Wimbledon–and going on to win the U.S. Open as well as an Olympic gold medal. Over the next decade, the extraordinary power and athleticism of the Williams sisters was credited with bringing the women’s tennis game to a new level, and final-round match-ups between the two sisters became common at Grand Slam events.
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Baseball Training Programs - By: Jillian Anderson
Modern day baseball players are superb athletes. Professional players tend to be lean (body fat percent of 8-9%) (2) and quick (under 7 seconds in the 60 yard run) (2). As for strength training, studies have shown that baseball-specific program can significantly increase batting speed and striking power (3) as well as throwing velocity (6). Power training (through plyometrics or ballistics for example) can increase a baseball player’s speed and agility. It may also improve throwing and batting velocity over and above conventional weight training (7). Shoulder injuries are a particular concern in baseball. Pitching (the overhand throw in particular) places an inordinate amount of stress on the shoulder complex (4). While strength conditioning can help to prevent such injuries, traditional weight lifting exercises may not be suitable in targeting the correct muscles or the correct movement patterns (4,5). Fortunately special exercises can be easily adopted into a baseball training program which help to significantly reduce the risk of overuse damage. Take a look through the articles below as we uncover some of the key principles involved in the
complete baseball training approach. If you are interested in cricket, check out our cricket training section. The Sport Specific Approach to Strength Training Programs Sport-specific strength training programs are fundamental to an athlete’s development and success. Long gone are the days when coaches shunned weight lifting for fear that it might hinder the performance of fine skill and correct technique. It’s now accepted that high levels of strength are a prerequisite to superior speed, power, strength endurance and overall sporting performance. Unfortunately, most strength training programs fall well short of what an athlete requires… Bodybuilding and Olympic weightlifting programs still dominate many athletes’ training regimes. While these types of training have their place, strength training for sport consists of a more refined approach than simply lifting heavy weights as many times as possible. This article outlines the concept and the benefits of a periodized strength training plan. This is the
most effective approach to strength training for sport. Not only does it help in the prevention of over training, it gives the athlete the best chance of peaking physically at the right time. Exercise Selection The principle of specificity states that training should mirror the demands of the sport as closely as possible (1). This applies not only to way the body’s energy systems and neuromuscular system is taxed (through manipulation of intensity and rest intervals etc) but also to the movement patterns of each exercise. Bodybuilders tend to isolate a muscle group and work it to exhaustion. Athletes on the other hand should train movements rather than muscles. A simple example is the vertical jump. The muscles involved in this action (calves, quadriceps, hamstrings, gluteals etc.) could be trained separately with exercise choices such as toe raises, leg extensions, leg curls, kickbacks and so on. For more on this article please go to www.sport-fitness-advisor.com
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It’s time for Satchel Paige Day in Major League Baseball there is anything that cannot afford to be marginalized by the passing of calendars over the years, it is the joint importance of what and why the Negro Leagues still matter so much, even after coming to end over 60 years ago. It is an existence that was triumphant and necessary, as well as defiant and proud. It is a group that overachieved even in its existence, as it battled the plights of limited financial reaches of the minority ownership of the time but still soldiered on through a strong network of loyalty, necessity and pure talent. Many of the great players of the era have become figures of legend in some regard, modern-day Greek gods of sorts, whose accomplishments sound more to be fabrication than actual outcome. The stories of the mammoth clouts of Josh Gibson, landing in towns miles away the next day after he hit them. Or the speed of Cool Papa Bell rivaling that of Hermes, complete with winged feet to make sense of it all. Perhaps chiefly among them all is the eccentric efficiency of Satchel Paige, the ageless wonder who in his prime was able to work full innings without the benefit of a defense behind him — mainly because he called them out of the field himself, because he would rather strike out the side instead.
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s the corner turns to March, the spring picks up pace and the sounds of the national pastime begin ringing out again. The waning days of February also bring to a close yet another Black History Month and the reminders and reminiscing the month brings of the works of many
great African-Americans throughout the nation’s history. It is at the intersection of these two institutions that one can find both a striking reminder of cultural history and the sport. It also provides a chance to dig in to how that weathering institution will be remembered as more and more years gather in between the time and place and the future that lies ahead. The cultural establishment that is in play here is the Negro Leagues, the various baseball leagues that housed the substantial gathering of African-American baseball talent that was excluded from Major League Baseball due to the vicious color barrier rulings that were upheld by the league. And while baseball’s 1947 integration is celebrated appropriately, as Jackie Robinson’s 42 is retired roundly throughout the league and April 15 (the day that he made his MLB debut) has been named in his honor, there is a legacy that lies decades before that historic day that needs to remain clear, present and relevant as well.
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As Jackie Robinson Day becomes a more tenured tradition, it also is at risk of reaching representative redundancy. Another year, another date, another tip of the cap and move on. Yet if
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While these and many more legends have grown to enduring status, there should be legitimate concern that the reality of the conditions in which they occurred could be lost to time. In a country that is both fighting to be beyond racial divides and combating some clear polarizations that could reverse those efforts, the importance of the era that housed the Negro Leagues and the success that they ultimately bred deserves to be kept prominent and in current context. The idea that we are at a “finish line” of any sort regarding the Negro Leagues era, due to the integration mark being three decades behind us and the prime contributors enshrined into the Baseball Hall of Fame already, defeats the point. A greater understanding and appreciation of what came before Jackie made it over is needed, in the same way that the time before the Emancipation Proclamation stands out and is a reminder of how things once were. Now, is baseball as serious of a matter as slavery and the national climate of those times? Of course not, and it would be asinine to associate the two. But more than any other sport, due to its age and establishment, baseball is more aligned with the history of race relations and social conditions than any other sport. Major League Baseball has a unique place in telling the story of the evolution of American society through its doors, thus it carries the ability to retroactively keep that awareness relevant by making an even greater point to highlight its own history — even by showcasing its prior missteps and corrections. The MLB has done a great job of telling the post-mortem story of African-American inclusion in its ranks, but it is time to raise that relevancy by telling more of the backstory in greater depth. This can be singularly achieved by bringing forward one of the most renowned member of the Negro Leagues and designating recognition for him and the flag he carried for so long: the iconic Paige.
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NBA Trade Deadline did not disappoint us!!! Winners and losers of the NBA trade deadline Now that the dust has settled after a hectic trade deadline, let’s take stock of the moves that went down across the NBA, and separate the wheat from the chaff. Here are the winners and losers of Deadline Day 2018:
Los Angeles Lakers All the Lakers wanted to do at this deadline was dump long-term money and clear cap space for the next two offseasons. In the trade that sent Jordan Clarkson to Cleveland, they managed to do that and extract a 2018 first-round pick from the Cavaliers. Without their own pick in the coming draft, that’s no small feat, even with the Cavs’ pick likely to fall in the 20s. (Look what the Lakers got with the 27th pick last year!) Giving up Larry Nance Jr. - an elite athlete and a strong defender with a year left on his rookie contract - will sting a bit, but the Lakers were already anticipating having to use him as a sweetener to offload Clarkson’s contract, and as a 25-year-old with little shooting range, it’s not like Nance was bursting with upside. If you think about this as two separate trades, you could say the Lakers got a first-rounder for Nance, and a pair of expiring contracts - plus a chance to see if Isaiah Thomas still has value - for Clarkson, who is owed $26 million for two seasons after this one. That’s a straight-up coup.
markedly improving their perimeter defense. In theory, anyway. Look, it’s not like the Cavs did anything earth-shattering here. This is far from a no-doubt home run. They didn’t acquire a star, didn’t address their lack of rim protection, and took on a ton of long-term money for middling talent. With so much turnover, there’s no telling how well their remade roster will gel. They probably improved their odds of getting out of the Eastern Conference, but they’ll still need a miracle to beat the Warriors. But with so much rot festering in their locker room, the Cavs needed an aggressive shakeup like this, and this is about as well as they could’ve done without moving their precious Brooklyn Nets pick. It should signal to LeBron James that they’re still willing to take on significant risk and cost in order to keep him around after this season. It may not work - again, the Lakers now have room to sign two max free agents - but if nothing else, this was a worthwhile roll of the dice.
New York Knicks
For all the rumblings about the Lakers shifting their focus to the 2019 free-agent class, they’re suddenly positioned to have two max-salary slots in July, with just $37 million committed for next season.
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As much as the Lakers seemed to definitively win the first trade, the Cavs salvaged their deadline day with a flurry of subsequent activity that totally overhauled their broken, dysfunctional roster. All told, they replaced Thomas, Channing Frye, Jae Crowder, Dwyane Wade, Iman Shumpert, and Derrick Rose with Clarkson, Nance, Rodney Hood, and George Hill. Without sacrificing much (if anything) in the way of shooting or playmaking, they got younger, more athletic, and more switchable, while
Look at the Knicks, doing smart things! It obviously would have been nice if they could’ve moved Courtney Lee or Kyle O’Quinn for assets, but they can still try move Lee in the offseason, and in the meantime, taking a flier on Emmanuel Mudiay - a talented but frustrating point guard who desperately needed a change of scenery - is exactly the type of low-risk move the Knicks need to making
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NBA Trade Deadline did not disappoint us!!! continued from page 9 in the wake of Kristaps Porzingis’ devastating injury. Mudiay has a lot to figure out, particularly at the defensive end, but he’s just 21, in the midst of the best shooting season of his career, and has a year left before restricted free agency. And all he cost the Knicks was a couple pointless months of Doug McDermott. Now all they need to do is find the strength to give Mudiay Jarrett Jack’s minutes.
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both at incredibly low cost.
After gutting their wing and guard depth to acquire Blake Griffin, the Pistons did well to acquire a steady veteran hand in point guard Jameer Nelson, and a bouncy 3-and-D swingman in James Ennis,
It wasn’t sexy, but the Pistons were worryingly top-heavy, and with their star frontcourt tandem already carrying them to five straight wins while shouldering an immense offensive load, a bit of depth could go a long way.
Phoenix Suns The Suns picked up Elfrid Payton - a 23-yearold, starting-caliber point guard who’s shooting 52 percent from the field and 37 percent from
3-point range, and has some defensive upside in exchange for a single second-round pick. Even given the uncertainty regarding Payton’s pending restricted free agency, that’s a nice piece of business for a rebuilding squad.
9-32 since. Thursday wasn’t much better. Orlando made no upgrades, and instead traded away its starting point guard for a second-round draft pick. In dealing Payton to the Suns, the Magic have no heir apparent at the point either.
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While Payton is a flawed player, he’s still only 23 and is having his best season shooting the ball. A high second-rounder seems like a less-than-ideal return. While Payton may not be a long-term star in Phoenix, it’s a low-risk deal for the Suns.
Utah Jazz Seven months ago, Jazz general manager Dennis Lindsey was talking about Rodney Hood being his team’s new primary scorer in the wake of Gordon Hayward’s exit. On Thursday, Lindsey signed off on Hood’s trade along with veteran Joe Johnson - and netted just Jae Crowder and Derrick Rose (who will reportedly be waived) in return.
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The Grizzlies sat Tyreke Evans the last week as they took trade calls on him, but in the end were unable to swing a deal. Multiple reports indicate it may have been because teams weren’t willing to part with a first-rounder in exchange for the 28-year-old guard.
What are the Jazz doing here, other than helping facilitate the Cleveland Cavaliers’ makeover? In Crowder, Utah gets a declining player who has seen his production on both ends decrease since the Boston Celtics included him in last summer’s fleecing of the Cavs in the Kyrie Irving trade. One possibility: Crowder’s contract is still a relative bargain at a total of $15 million through next season. So in other words, the Jazz dealt away one of their three best players for a cheap contract. Vexing, given that up to 20 teams reportedly called the Jazz about Hood.
Orlando Magic The Magic started this season 8-4, and have gone
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Now, Memphis may want to keep Evans in the offseason and re-sign him to the mid-level exception if he’s amenable, a situation he holds no loyalty to. The Grizzlies did achieve something of a selloff Thursday, by dealing Ennis’ useful minutes and expiring contract for a future second-round pick and Brice Johnson - who’s played a total of 12 NBA games in two seasons.
It’s time for Satchel Paige Day in Major League Baseball
Leroy “Satchel” Paige was as far ahead of his time as any athlete in history. He was boastful, eccentric and dynamic; he was able to captivate fan bases and wow the greats of the game, both in his time and before. His sayings and stories endure as a part of the American sports lexicon. He named his pitches all sorts of fantastic titles (“jump ball” and “trouble ball” ring out much better than slider or curveball) and would ask batters what they wanted to hit before ultimately giving them just that and still coming out on top more often than not. Bob Feller, Dizzy Dean, Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio all say he was the greatest pitcher they ever saw, and he would have posted some eye-staggering numbers if he was permitted to compete in the Majors during his prime. However, he was not, and that is where the story begins, as well as where the call for a Satchel Paige Day stands.
While highlighting the importance of the breakthrough that Robinson represented is forever important, highlight why that breakthrough was so important and longstanding is told better through the spectrum of spotlighting perhaps the best player who was blocked for much of his career. While there were many greats who never got to eventually see their careers reach the Majors, highlighting Paige shows both the tragedy of why he did not get to work in the Majors until past his 40th birthday and also why it is not as big of an issue as it may be seen either. Despite the fact that the Negro Leagues’ existence
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was necessitated by the color ban, it was far from a consolation league. There was great pride in the league by those who played in it, the fans that followed it and the communities that hosted it. The idea that this league was not a pride point and that there was only longing for recognition in the MLB is inaccurate and a point that is increasingly lost in history. By recognizing the star that Paige was and the reverence he commanded, it tells an entirely different story: an inspirational one that completes the story of African-Americans in baseball. By further highlighting Paige, we complete the story of baseball and further accent the rightful position of African-American history along with the game.
At a time when African-American participation in the game is at a post-integration all-time low, further exposure of the heritage of the game is greatly needed. It is also a time when there are still living participants who competed in both the Negro and Major Leagues who have names that can carry the esteem to speak to this divide, because they lived it. Being opportunistic in these times is not only needed; it’s essential. When would be the most opportune time to host such a recognition day ,and what is the best format to do it within? A common complaint from many African-American sports fans is that baseball is not relatable due to the lack of black stars in the game. By returning the game to the format in which Paige built much of his legend, a barnstorming game, that can begin to change. Many times, Negro League All-Star teams would
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assemble and travel to play against teams made up of stars from the MLB in contests that were a different type of entertainment than the standard MLB product... and were often won by the Negro Leagues teams. Imagine what type of boost an exhibition game held with Mookie Betts, Andrew McCutchen, Jason Heyward, Dexter Fowler, Dee Gordon, Chris Archer, David Price and more, coming together to play an exhibition game against any number of the other collections of baseball talent that assembles, such as another country’s World Baseball Classic team, a collection of minor leaguers or even another pickup team of Major Leaguers. Combine it with a tribute to Paige and other Negro League greats, as well as many African-American Hall of Famers and dignitaries that have benefited from tracks laid in the pre-integration days. Such a display would be a powerful reminder of what the game (and country) was once upon a time, while also highlighting the legacy of where it is now. The imagery would be potent, and the message would be clear: Baseball and America have continued to move forward. But there is a perpetual need to never forget what got us to where we are now and how the nation’s most perpetual game and league can provide that contest. Satchel Paige is the greatest ambassador of the entire experience of African-American life as seen through the eyes of sport. Major League Baseball has the power and platform to make bring this past into the present... and beyond.
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Meet… Fritz Pollard By: CALVIN JOHNSON
was named as a first team All-American, the second black player ever to receive this honor and the first to do so as a member of the back field. Due to these accomplishments, Pollard began to receive recognition from various civil rights groups and black organizations, traveling from city to city along the East Coast to accept awards and accolades. Unfortunately, he also began to neglect his studies, and the following season he was ruled academically ineligible to compete on the Brown football team.
Pollard was born in 1894 into a middle class family outside Chicago. Like his three older brothers, Fritz emerged as a football star once he reached high school. It was as a student and athlete of his predominately white school that Pollard first learned how to deal with the discrimination and racial prejudice he received from his fellow students and athletic opponents. Although he excelled in baseball and track as well, he decided to focus on football in college, presuming that he would have more opportunities in the sport as an African American. After bouncing around from several colleges, he eventually ended up at Brown University where he joined the football team. At first, things weren’t easy. Pollard was ostracized by his white teammates and targeted on the practice field. However, he endured this blatant racism and ultimately emerged as the star of the Brown football squad. After proving himself to be one of the most talented halfbacks in the country, Pollard went on to become the first African American to play in the prestigious Rose Bowl on January 1st, 1916. The following year, he elevated the Brown team even more, leading them to consecutive victories over heavily favored Harvard and Yale. His performances this year were so great, in fact, that he
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In 1921, Pollard was named co-coach of the Akron Pros, making him the first African American coach in NFL history. During this time, he emerged as one of the best players in professional football alongside Jim Thorpe, a football legend. He went on to play for several other teams in the league, often acting as both a coach and player while remaining one of the most dominant men on the field. During this time, more African Americans began to enter the league, many of whom were recruited by Pollard himself. Because of his efforts to help more blacks play professional football, Fritz was also able to organize an interracial all-star game in Chicago that showcased a team made up of the finest African American players in the league against an all white squad. His purpose was clear: to showcase the talent of black athletes and promote integrated competition in sports. Later, as the head coach of the Hammond Pros in 1925, Pollard brought in three black
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Eventually, a ban on African American participation in the NFL was passed in 1934, and so in response Pollard formed and coached an all-black professional Harlem football team, the Brown Bombers. Like the Black Hawks, the Bombers played against all-white professional teams, usually dominating behind the strength of their all-star African American talent. With his team soundly defeating NFL team after NFL team, Pollard was able to prove that blacks were talented enough to play in professional leagues, thus challenging the NFL’s race ban and bringing the issue of segregation to the forefront of professional football. After resigning as head coach of the Bombers, Pollard continued to oppose the NFL ban and remain a prominent advocate for integration in football. Sadly, the immense contributions of Fritz Pollard are often regarded as merely a footnote in the history of the NFL, but in reality they were so much more. As a player, he helped pave the way for his fellow African Americans to enter the sport, and as a coach he maintained integration by recruiting other black players to join his teams. Once he left the NFL, he continued his advocacy by organizing first the Chicago Black Hawks and then the Brown Bombers, two teams that proved African Americans had just as much a place in professional football as anyone else. Indeed, the Bombers enabled blacks to continue to play against professional teams after they had been excluded from the NFL due to the league’s race ban. Ultimately, Fritz Pollard was a man whose extensive contributions to the game of football helped promote integration and establish a place for African Americans to participate at the professional level.
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n 1919, when Fritz Pollard first began playing football in the NFL, sports was one of only a few opportunities for African Americans to advance their social and economic status. He may not have been the first black man to play professional football, but he certainly was one of the most influential of his time, emerging as a dominant force in the quest to keep the NFL integrated. Throughout his career, he continued to struggle to allow African Americans to retain their rights to play the game of football at the highest possible level. His pioneering efforts had a lasting impact that helped delay the eventual segregation of the NFL, and through Fritz Pollard’s unparalleled dedication and love of football, African Americans were able to define their place in the sport before they were ultimately forced out.
Because of his ineligibility, Pollard entered military service for a few years before returning to football. When he did return, however, it was as a member of the Akron Pros professional football team in 1919. The next year the Pros joined the American Professional Football Association (APFA), later the National Football League. That year, Pollard assumed some of the coaching duties, and behind his powerful backfield play and the eastern formations he had brought from college, the Pros went on to win the APFA championship. Despite this success, Pollard still suffered as an African American in an all-white league. Indeed, when he first began playing, he was one of only two black players in professional football, and life was certainly not easy because of it. On the road, he was not allowed to eat at the same restaurants or stay in the same hotels as his teammates. He sustained verbal and physical abuse from Akron’s fans, who he claimed were just as prejudiced as anyone from the South. He even had to dress for home games at a local cigar store and arrive at the stadium just before game time in order to protect his safety.
players who, alongside his own play, made Hammond the most integrated team in the NFL. This year would mark the height of African American participation in the NFL before growing discrimination would cause the number of black football players to begin to fall, until there was only one African American player in 1927. Dismayed by these numbers, Pollard went on to found an all-star black professional team in 1928 called the Chicago Black Hawks. This team played games against all-white professional teams before folding due to Depression. They were able to prove that interracial play was possible without the ugly incidents that had marred NFL competition between whites and blacks.
Works Cited: Brooks, Scott, and Charles Kenyatta Ross. Race and Sport: The Struggle for Equality on and off the Field. Jackson: University of Mississippi, 2004. Print.
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Sports History... The NBA and the Black Man
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Basketball’s Forgotten (Black) History
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here’s a good 50-year gap in the story of basketball’s evolution. We go from the game’s invention late in the 19th century and fast forward to the NBA’s late1940s inception. In the interim, though, there were the Black Fives (teams were called “fives” in reference to their five starters). They were amateur, semi-pro and professional teams sponsored mostly by churches, athletic clubs, social clubs and “colored” YMCAs. The basketball equivalents to baseball’s storied Negro League were the Philadelphia Panthers, the Los Angeles Red Devils, the Washington 12 Streeters and many more, including the historic New York Renaissance (Rens). The Rens, from 1923 to 1948, won a dumbfounding 2,588 of 3,117 games and whose watershed rivalry with all-white Original Celtics (of New York) helped put the entire team in the Hall of Fame. When some yahoo from Atlanta tried to hijack the media with his farmhand idea for an all-white league in today’s integrated America, David Aldridge tried to point us to the Black Fives and their forgotten history in his NBA.com column, directing curious parties to Black Fives, an information treasure chest created and run by Black Fives historian Claude Johnson. Did I go there and
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spend some quality time reading up on an absolutely essential piece of basketball and African-American history? Of course not. Why? Because history was spoon-fed to me on the boob tube. Now that’s shameful. The Black Fives Era is Americana that needs to be appreciated, promoted and commemorated. People should know about the New York Rens, a team that once won 88 games in 86 days, the best collection of basketball players for two decades. Everyone should know that Jackie Robinson played with the L.A. Red Devils before he made American history and crashed through the MLB color barrier for the Dodgers. We need more than just Bob Douglas, William “Pop” Gates and Charles “Tarzan” Cooper in the Basketball Hall of Fame as either players or contributors. What about contributors like Edwin Henderson, the man many credit for introducing basketball to the black community or Cumberland Posey Jr., the Michael Jordan of the 1910s and first half of the 1920s? It is the basketball Hall of Fame, not the NBA Hall of Fame. Imagine a Jazz Hall of Fame without Lester Young or Chick Webb. Just as Major League Baseball teams occasionally wear the colors of vintage Negro League teams, we need to see the New York Knicks periodically sporting Rens jerseys and the Chicago Bulls
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rocking Chicago Roma jerseys. Before Earl Lloyd broke the NBA’s color barrier in 1950, the Knicks made Nathaniel “Sweetwater” Clifton, a former Ren, the first black player to sign an NBA contract. That wasn’t a Big Bang; that was an evolution. Before them, there was Hudson Oliver of the Smart Set Athletic Club, the Washington 12 Streeters and Howard University, who dominated the first decade of the 20th century. Later, there was John “Boy Wonder” Isaacs, Chris Dorsey and William “Dolly” King and a host of other cats who barnstormed across the country, inspiring, coaching and mentoring thousands of young black men that, as each generation passed, would soon hit the NBA and morph the predominantly white league into what we see today. Current players owe it to themselves to investigate how basketball got from the peach basket to today’s game. The Black Fives era is an integral part of that. But it’s not race pride that should spur us all to first learn and then spread the word about the Black Fives era; it’s that we can’t allow all this important history to get buried, as Johnson would say, in an “unmarked grave.” It’s been there for too long, and it needs a resurrection.
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Integration on the Court: College Basketball in the South
The first step in integrating collegiate basketball was integrating the school itself. White southern colleges did not even begin to admit black students until the early 1960s, despite the fact that Brown vs. Board of Education had deemed segregated public schools unconstitutional in 1954. Once African Americans were allowed on campus, they were still excluded from athletic teams until the late 1960s and early 1970s. Northern liberals found this segregation ridiculous, and hoped that integrating collegiate sports teams would provide the South and the rest of the country with an example of prosperous cooperation between whites and blacks. Indeed, many colleges outside of the South had opened their athletic teams to African Americans by the mid-1950s, and the National Basketball Association had been integrated in 1950. The rest of the country was taking strides forward, but the South remained stubbornly in its discriminatory past. This divide between the South and the rest of the country became prominent when it came time for segregated southern teams to play integrated teams from the North. In the first half of the 20th century, southern colleges had simply not scheduled games against teams with black players or had entered into “gentleman’s agreements” with schools with integrated teams. These agreements dictated that the southern college would play a northern school only if that school excluded its African American players from the game. This code of conduct governed play between northern and southern colleges until 1950, by which time most integrated schools refused to agree to a gentleman’s agreement and bar their black players from competition. This resulted in southern colleges either organizing careful scheduling so as not to play any team with an African American player or simply canceling a game against an integrated team, as the University of Tennessee did against Duquesne in 1945. By the 1950s, most colleges outside of the South had removed barriers preventing African American involvement in athletic programs. In basketball, this resulted in the emergence of a number of African American stars, such as the great Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson, and Bill Russell. The success of the interracial squads of the north
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put pressure on colleges of the South to integrate their own teams. Any move to recruit black players, however, was halted by vehement opposition on behalf of southern society. Fans and officials alike protested federally mandated desegregation, and officials in Birmingham, Alabama even went so far as to pass laws prohibiting interracial sporting events. This practice was carried out by the state of Louisiana as well, which in 1956 adopted a bill making it illegal for blacks and whites to compete in any athletic event. The attitude of Southern society toward athletic integration was perhaps best summarized by Georgia senator Leon Butts, who in 1957 said interracial competition should be banned because, “when Negroes and whites meet on the athletic fields on a basis of complete equality, it is only natural that this sense of equality carries into the daily living of these people.” This ideology eventually affected the Mississippi State basketball and denied them any chance of winning the NCAA Championship tournament. After winning the SEC in 1959, 1961, and 1962, and thus securing a bid into the post season tournament, the Bulldogs were forced to decline their invitation to the NCAAs because of their state and school’s policy against interracial competition. By the time Mississippi State won the SEC again in 1963, university officials were determined to give their basketball team a chance in the NCAA tournament, thus challenging the segregationists of the state. This move was not appreciated by some fans, who felt that though athletic achievement was important to the state and to the school, “our southern way of life is infinitely more precious.” As a result, they were granted a temporary injunction preventing the team from leaving the state to play against integrated teams in the north for the postseason. This was eventually dissolved, but Mississippi State officials were so worried about the actions of die-hard segregationists that the team had to secretly sneak out of the state to travel to their game. Mississippi State went on to play against Loyola University, a team with four black starters who beat the Bulldogs on their way to the championship game. This has since been considered an important step towards achieving racial equality in the South, and it made interracial competition between southern and northern schools politically, if not socially, acceptable. This shifting attitude began to spread throughout the
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While the SEC remained all-white, southern Texas schools began integrating their own basketball teams. This was first achieved in 1956, when Texas Western College became the first historically white southern university to become integrated with the enrollment of Charles Brown and his nephew, Cecil Brown. This policy was continued in 1961 when the school hired coach Don Haskins, who asserted that he would recruit the best players he could, regardless of race. The University of Louisville would later go on to become the first school to integrate the Upper South in 1964 when three black players, Wade Houston, Stan Smith, and Eddie Whitehead, began playing for the Cardinals.
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Today, we think nothing of seeing a star African American player or an all-black starting lineup in college basketball. In fact, this is somewhat common in the world of collegiate hoops. What many people fail to comprehend, however, is the amount of effort and time it took to integrate college basketball, especially in the American South, an area dominated by discrimination and prejudice. Often, storied programs refused to change their ways and integrate, and fans continued to protest interference in their segregated teams’ affairs. In the end, it took the audacity of innovative coaches, a changing social attitude, and simply time to alter the face of college basketball in the South.
South as schools moved towards fully integrating their own teams. Supported by student protests and campus opinion, the University of Kentucky announced in 1963 that its athletic programs would be open to all students, regardless of race. Despite this, however, the school’s basketball team did not actually become integrated until 1970.
It would still be Texas Western, however, that would radically change the face of college basketball in the 1966 championship game against the Kentucky Wildcats. This game featured the all black starting lineup of Texas Western against the all white starters of the segregated Kentucky squad. Texas Western would go on to defeat the Wildcats, proving to the South that having the best available talent, regardless of race, was more important to winning than maintaing racial prejudices and a “southern way of life”. Indeed, this game had since been considered the “emancipation proclamation” of southern collegiate basketball. Shortly after this victory, Perry Wallace was recruited by Vanderbilt University and went on to break the SEC’s color barrier in 1967. Change was slow, however, and the 19691970 basketball season saw only 2 African Americans among 120 SEC players. It wasn’t until 1972, when Mississippi State finally signed a black player, that the SEC became a fully integrated athletic conference. Eventually, by 1975, black athletes made up 45 percent of SEC players, and the conference was considered to have achieved relative racial equality.
The road to integration in southern college basketball was both incredibly long (spanning from 1945 until 1972) and incredibly difficult. So why did it change? Contributing factors include: changing student and faculty attitudes, African American presence on campuses, pressure from integrated northern colleges, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the will to win and recruit the best talent available. Eventually, the integrated teams of the South proved to the rest of southern society that blacks and whites could work together toward a common goal, and provided an example of successful interracial cooperation. Works Cited: Miller, Patrick B., and David Kenneth Wiggins. Sport and the Color Line: Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth-century America. New York: Routledge, 2004. Print.
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TIDBITS
James Earl Jones – The True Distinguished Gentleman
By Shellye Lyons
4.Field of Dreams (1989) is a fantasy-drama film directed by Phil Alden Robinson, who also wrote the screenplay, adapting W. P. Kinsella’s novel, Shoeless Joe. In the movie, Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) seeks out fictional author Terence Mann. For the movie, not only was the name of the author changed, but so was his race. James Earl Jones played the role of the reclusive writer to near perfection. 5.Clear and Present Danger (1994) is a spy action thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce, based
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escribed as “one of America’s most distinguished and versatile” actors and “one of the greatest actors in American history”, James Earl Jones has given himself over to acting since 1955 and made his Broadway debut in 1957. That’s over 60 years! He will always be acclaimed for his booming and fluid speaking voice and many of the films he’s participated in were well before I was even born.
VI Return of the Jedi, even going as far as telling people it wasn’t him who did the voice-over! 2.The Lion King (1994) is an animated musical epic film produced by Walt Disney Feature Ani-
on Tom Clancy’s book of the same name. In this film, James Earl Jones plays CIA Vice Admiral, James Greer who is diagnosed with cancer so Agent Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) becomes acting deputy director. 6.The Sandlot (1993) is a coming-of-age film Comedy directed by David M. Evans, which tells the story of a group of suburban boys playing endless days of baseball during the summer of 1962, when two of the youngsters nervously encounter a blind recluse named Thelonius Mertle, played by James Earl Jones, and his dog, Hercules.
So, for you seasoned readers, please keep that in mind as I present my top 10 James Earl Jones movies!
7.Patriot Games (1992) is the second installment in the action-suspense film directed by Phillip Noyce and based on Tom Clancy’s novel of the same name. It is a sequel to the 1990 film The Hunt for Red October, and the prequel to Clear and Present Danger. James Earl Jones reprises his role as CIA Vice Admiral, James Greer.
mation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 32nd animated feature in the Walt Disney and James Earl Jones is the voice of King Mufasa, the father of the main character, Simba. He is set to reprise the part in the upcoming remake.
1.Star Wars (1977) is an epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. James Earl Jones is the voice of Darth Vader. He only spent one day recording Darth Vader’s voice-over dialogue for Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope at Goldwyn Studios. As such, Jones refused to be credited until the release of Star Wars: Episode
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3.Coming to America (1988) is a comedy film directed by John Landis, and based on a story originally created by Eddie Murphy, who also starred in the lead role. He plays King Jaffe Joffer, the father of Prince Akeen (Eddie Murphy), an extremely pampered African Prince who travels to Queens, New York, undercover to find a wife he can respect for her intelligence and will.
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8.Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins (2008) is a comedy film written and directed by Malcolm D. Lee and distributed by Universal Pictures. James Earl Jones plays Roscoe Jenkins, Sr, the patriarch of the family. His son, Roscoe, Jr, aka Dr. RJ Stevens is a talk show host who visits his family in the deep south. While there he reunites with his brother Otis, his sister Betty, his cousin/rival Clyde and his childhood love interest Lucinda Allen. 9.Soul Man (1986) is a comedy film about a man who undergoes racial transformation with pills to qualify for a black-only scholarship at Harvard Law School. James Earl Jones plays the
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HE SAID; SHE SAID
Cheaters are some of the most insecure people on the planet. They don’t cheat to prove a point, they cheat to fill a void!
By: Harold Jr E That’s very true.
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Phil Harris Aww grasshopper ur starting to heat up. Lawana Nikia Mitchell Lazarus I agree Stephany DeBerry You can’t tell the cheater that, though! Full of themselves, yet empty! The irony! Alexander Tony Has anyone that has commented so far ever been a cheater? At a young age I displayed this behavior but it had nothing to do with being insecure. Being a Playboy was a learned behavior taught to me. It was a way of life. Financially and Sexually. I had to learn that it was all wrong. It’s a lot more to this type of behavior. I’m going to write a book “The Cheating Victim”. It’s easy to talk down but do you really know what’s going on? This is cancer, diabetes, homosexuality etc. It takes God healing. Stephany DeBerry Being a playboy is a mask for insecurity though. Who just opens themselves up sexually to any and every woman available? That’s evident of a lack of self love and low self esteem. Some men never seem to think about it that way, but it’s true. Something is lacking inside, definitely!
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Alexander Tony @Stephany DeBerry I had eyes for one growing up..if you think it’s all about insecurities, that’s not so. I grew up in a family that had money, nice looking people, but didn’t have morals. My family used the money and the fact of being pleasant to the eyes as a weapon. Beautiful women do it all the time. But out of respect to Ms Winter Harris this as far as I will go on this on her page...u can always message me with ur concerns. Be blessed Stephany DeBerry I hear you Alexander! However, what I do know is there is a lack somewhere. Sometimes we just need to dig deeper then just surface; looks, money, etc. I know from experience. Beverly Johnson Ok question.... how does filling a void equate to being insecure? Winter Harris We seek to fill what we lack, it’s a subconscious action in a lot of ways really. Most cheaters will say that isn’t true until they are willing to address. Cheating is a choice not a sympton of a relationship. You dont break a leg to treat a cough. Beverly Johnson Well I was a cheater because I was trying to fill a void but that didn’t satisfy me because that’s not my spirit. I HATE cheating and lying with a passion.... but never felt like I was an insecure person.... that’s why I asked lol Winter Harris Im an advocate for the Redeemed, no need for shame my dear!! Marcus Evans Is being a sex addict a form of mental illness or an excuse Derrick Hunt Marcus Evans It can be deemed as both..just like any addiction it derived from mental imbalance.. Actions are made by impulse and why a person makes the excuse to act.. Now medically someone has put a
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HE SAID; SHE SAID title to this but spiritually it all stems from a similar reason given by Winter Harris.. In fact all addictions derived from this. We all have an addiction. The problem is many choose addictions that hurt us more than helps us and others..just like an alcoholic, drug user..etc.. A stronghold has come over them that started off to fill a void whether it was from lack of love, education, attention..or dispointment, or hopelessness. While other choose religions or practices to help themselves within to find Spirituality (even though many get lost in the religion vs.Spirit). In truth the addiction or excuse comes from a root that was caused in unwanted moment of their life but until one goes deeper than the root and plucks and makes peace with the seed (sometimes going back to childhood experience) ..it will always be a battle..because this is the only way people truly change and with God to replace the insecurity or void..with True Forgiveness, fulfilment of joy and contentment during the process of growth and pressing for better. Finding Spiritual Faith from within themselves first despite man’s theories or religion terms. Marcus Evans I did it just to do it! I always had the state of mind if you’re not married it’s not cheating!!!!! PS Hargrove Was this mindset applied towards the women you were with as well? You didn’t mind the woman you were with sleeping with someone else?
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Marcus Evans No, she could do what she wanted to do. My motto was and still is that your mate is going to do whatever anyway so don’t stress about it. you either deal with it or don’t. You got the power!!!!! Stacy KM I’m sure that’s the case for a handful, but just as many are cheating because they are full of themselves and always think they can do better. Winter Harris And I dont disagree with you! Stephany DeBerry Many of these so called cheaters, especially the men are the biggest babies, Couldn’t handle it they were cheated on. So much for security. Cheating usually involves some type of dishonesty, lying...Tell the truth! Shame the devil! How secure are you in a relationship where you lie to take advantage of people? Jackie Williams The truth Sugar P McMillian hummmm ya think Ron Grace @Winter Harris you may be on to something!!!
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James Earl Jones – The True Distinguished Gentleman primary professor who holds him to the highest standards. Now, I’m not necessarily happy about “blackface” in this movie. But it was actually kind of a funny movie. 10. Roots: The Next Generations (1979). I know it’s not a film, per se. But it should be noted that James Earl Jones was cast as the historian, Alex Haley, in his continuation of account of his family’s history dating back to Africa.
About JEJ James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is an American actor. His career has spanned more than 60 years, and he has been described as “one of America’s most distinguished and versatile” actors and “one of the greatest actors in American history”. Since his Broadway debut in 1957, Jones has won many awards, including a Tony Award and Golden Globe Award for his role in The Great White Hope. Jones has won three Emmy Awards, including two in the same year in 1991, and he also earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role in the film version of The Great White Hope. He is also known for his voice roles as Darth Vader in the Star Wars film series and Mufasa in Disney’s The Lion King, as well as many other film, stage and television roles. Jones has been said to possess “one of the bestknown voices in show business, a stirring basso profondo that has lent gravel and gravitas” to his projects, including live-action acting, voice acting, and commercial voice-overs. In 1970, he
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won a Grammy Award for Great American Documents. As a child, Jones had a stutter. In his episode of Biography, he said he overcame the affliction through poetry, public speaking, and acting, although it lasted for several years. A pre-med major in college, he went on to serve in the United States Army during the Korean War before pursuing a career in acting. On November 12, 2011, he received an Honorary Academy Award. On November 9, 2015, Jones received the Voice Arts Icon Award. On May 25, 2017, he received an Honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Harvard University and concluded the event’s benediction with “May the Force be with you”.
Childhood James Earl Jones was born in Arkabutla, Mississippi on January 17, 1931, to Ruth (Williams) Jones, a teacher and maid, and Robert Earl Jones, a boxer, butler, and chauffeur who left the family shortly after James Earl’s birth. He later became a stage and screen actor in New York and Hollywood. Jones and his father did not get to know each other until the 1950s but became reconciled then. His parents were African-American, and Jones has learned they also had Irish and Native American ancestry.
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From the age of five, Jones was raised by his maternal grandparents, John Henry and Maggie Williams, who had moved from Mississippi in the Great Migration and had a farm in Jackson, Michigan. Jones has described his grandmother, Maggie, as “the most racist person I have ever known”, having a “double edged contempt for White folk”. He had to develop his own independent thinking. His grandmother was of African-American, Cherokee and Choctaw ancestry. Jones found the transition to living with his grandparents in Michigan traumatic, and developed a stutter so severe that he refused to speak. When his family moved to the more rural Brethren, Michigan, a teacher helped him overcome his stutter. He remained functionally mute for eight years until he entered high school. He credits his English teacher, Donald Crouch, who discovered he had a gift for writing poetry, with helping him end his silence. Crouch urged him to challenge his reluctance to speak. “I was a stutterer. I couldn’t talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year, and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.”
Personal life Jones married American actress/singer Julienne Marie in 1968, whom he met while performing as Othello in 1964. They had no children, and divorced in 1972. In 1982, he married actress Cecilia Hart, with whom he had one child, son Flynn Earl Jones. Hart died on October 16, 2016, after a one-year battle with ovarian cancer.[49] In April 2016, Jones spoke publicly for the first time in nearly 20 years about his long-term health challenge with type 2 diabetes. He has been dealing with diabetes since the mid 1990s.
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Every day is your Valentine’s day
By: Valder Beebe ach year on February 14th, Housewives of New York Reality many people exchange TV Show a sneak peek into the cards, candy, gifts or flowers shows upcoming antics and great with their special “valentine.” The gift ideas. day of romance we call Valentine’s Day dates back to the 5th So as you plan to romance and century. gift give use this time to think over your relationship, what
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is working? What can be enhanced? I say contemplate how to make your relationship more romantic every day. I love romance and the love of my life is James Beebe. We have raised our four children (and survived) and now we focus on “the love of us.” It is a delicious time in our lives, it’s like living with a new person as we have spent the last 20-something years being parents now we are truly partners. Our anniversary is on Valentine’s Day and it is a special day yet I strive to live everyday with James as special. Each morning as he prepares to leave for work we pray Jeremiah 29 :11 together, kiss and we are off to work. Daily after I complete the Valder Beebe Show (radio and soon television show) James calls for our morning “I Love You Call”. These and other daily acts of love make Valentine’s Day just another day to be in love. Our audience can view the full conversation between me and my guests for Valentine’s Day inspiration by clicking on The Valder Beebe Show videos on ValderBeebeShow.com, 411Gospel and 411Jazz network, YouTube.com/ valderbeebeshow. Happy Valentine’s Day to the love of my life, James Beebe and Happy Anniversary too! #### Jennifer Jolly’s video interview is provided by FTD, Shari’s Berries, Prynt, Minted Heather Thompson’s video interview is provided by Samsung, De Rigueur Designs, and Man Crates.
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Happy “Self-LOVE” Day! By: Laneen “Dr. Intimacy” Haniah
So, National Loneliness Day… uh… er… um… I mean Valentine’s Day, is here once again. If you are lucky enough to be in a good relationship, you are probably looking forward to this day. But for millions of single people, this is a dreaded time of year. Let’s face it, you’re just recovering from holiday loneliness. For months you were bombarded with images of happy families and couples, and now, before you’ve even had a chance to enjoy the reprieve, it starts all over again. It seems like “love is in the air”, for everyone except you. Of course, you have the option to just ignore the day. It could just be another day for you. You don’t have to give it any regard at all. But, I have another idea – a radical notion! What if you were your own Valentine this year? Regardless of its origins or intended meaning, Valentine’s Day has become a symbol of love. However, it’s not just any kind of love we honor on that day. It is the MOST INTIMATE kind of love we celebrate. Valentine’s is the one day a year that is set aside on the calendar, to celebrate the person that you love the most; the person that you have the deepest connection and intimacy with; the person whose presence in your life matters more than anyone else’s. Sure, it’s commercialized. Sure, Hallmark, Russell Stovers, 1-800-Flowers and Kay Jewelers are probably the driving forces behind all this “love”. But even if “love” is only pushed to the forefront as a smokescreen for a revenue increase, it’s still LOVE at the forefront. Any reason
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to appreciate love in your life, is a good enough reason! That being said, why should love NOT be celebrated, just because you don’t happen to have a significant other at this time? As a matter of fact, my point precisely is that you DO have a significant other who deserves to be celebrated, and the significant other is – YOU! Who makes your coffee for you in the morning? Who supports your dreams? Who compliments you when have on a knockout outfit? Who treats you to lunch on hard days? And, who curls up on the couch with you to binge watch your favorite show? YOU DO! It’s all you. Just think about it… Everything that a significant other will one day provide in your life, at this season of your life, you provide for yourself (hopefully with a few exceptions, lol). Aside from the love of GOD, Self-love is the greatest and most important love of all. It should also be the most intimate love you experience. When I say “intimate”, please understand that intimacy has nothing to do with sex. Intimacy at its core, is about familiarity and fondness; acceptance and support. Don’t you know yourself better than anyone else? Don’t you wake up every morning and accept yourself just as you are? Of course you do, and your love for yourself should be honored and appreciated, above any other person’s love.
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So here is my radical idea: This year on Valentine’s Day, if you happen to be single currently, or in a relationship with someone who doesn’t celebrate you – CELEBRATE YOURSELF! Set the day aside to spend some quality with you. Write yourself a card. Buy yourself a gift. Take yourself out on a date. Make an occasion of it. Make you feel special on that day. Tell yourself how grateful you are for your own love, commitment and friendship. It might sound a little silly, but the truth of the matter is, you can’t do for someone else what you don’t know how to do for yourself. If you don’t know how to celebrate yourself, you won’t know how to celebrate a significant other. If you don’t appreciate your own self-love, how can you appreciate someone else’s love? And if you happen to be the person reading this, who realized at some point during this short article that your self-love is lacking, this is your opportunity to acknowledge that and correct it. Maybe you are not being to yourself what you should be, in the absence of a significant other. Perhaps you are allowing certain areas of your life to be neglected, as you wait for that “special someone” to show up and treat you right. Well guess what? You are that special someone, and it is your obligation to treat yourself right, right now. So happy Valentine’s Day, from you, to you!
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