http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2015/12/2 ... at-83.html

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Not a mult.

I grew up watching the Harlem Globetrotter cartoons and reading about their amazing history. I still have the album from the TV Show. Loved him & the Globetrotters....Rest in Peace.


http://theweek.com/speedreads/596295/me ... ce-dead-83

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

When I was a kid, we saw the old Globetrotters. Meadowlark made a hook shot from half court. Not in the center of the court, but over by the side line. Nothing but net.

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I know now that the shows where scripted but as a kid he was the greatest player till that kid from North Carolina showed up

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

Loved the Globetrotters and Meadowlark,...Curly Neal too. I liked their cartoon,...especially when they joined up with Scooby Doo & the gang.

Meadowlark was a cooool dude.

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Proud to be UNVERIFIED.

It's sad - but 83 is a full life - and lived through a backstabbing wife. She stabbed the man in his back. WTF!

RIP Meadowlark!

Will they put his ashes in a bucket and throw it on the crowd?

You're a bad person, and you should feel bad.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

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Not a mult.

I used to try those hook shots at school after seeing Meadowlark effortlessly pot those suckers. I think my percentage was about .02

I remember the WWOS broadcast from the then-new Omni in Atlanta (RIP). Meadowlark was up in the stands, or a catwalk or something - some ridiculous distance, and tried the hook shot from there, and damned if he didn't almost make it - I believe he hit the rim. Wonder how many tries they edited out?

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I like the Generals to finally win one now!!!!!!!!!

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Red Klotz lived to 93 years old!

http://deadspin.com/how-red-klotz-14-00 ... 1605235415

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Both Klotz and Saperstein could have owned the Bulls. Not sure people realize how unpopular hoops was until Jordan arrived!!!!

1979 to 1981 a number of NBA finals and playoff games got "Tape Delayed" status by CBS and shpwn on Late Night, after the news.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

As a small boy,I once ordered a book about the Trotters. It had mentioned they were owned by a few businessmen. One was a guy named Gillette out of Chicago. I looked him up in the phone book and called him. I told him I had a neighborhood team that would like to play the Globetrotters. He was very nice and laughed saying they only played teams with older players.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

I was partial to Geese Ausbie.

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Sex isn't dirty, sex isn't a crime. It's a loving act between two or more consenting adults.

-Hank Kingsley

I remember watching those games on tape delay as a kid. I got to know the rosters of a number of Western Conf. teams by watching the tape delayed games on CBS.
It's also the pd. when DePaul basketball was much bigger than the Bulls in Chicago.

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Meadowlark Lemong getting ready to 'check in to' Betty Ford ......

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

That looks like Lbj's wife

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

"They had lost 220 in a row, they were due..."

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The nephew still doesnt believe me about that!

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

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If you placed a bet with him about more people knowing the name Skip Dillard rather than Ricky Sobers you'd win every time.

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