Later in life, I interviewed two-time NBA Most Valuable Player Steve Nash, who looked me directly in the eye during our conversations when he played for the Phoenix Suns. Nash, a “tall civilian” at 6ft3 by regular human standards, is well below the average NBA height. Shaquille O’Neal...
In the Field Wrapping it Up Aurora Science and Forecasts UNDERSTANDING THE AURORA Screenshot from my eBook. Aurora science and forecasts. It was only 100 years ago that scientists discovered that the sun was responsible for the northern lights. Since then, we have come a long way in unde...
Yao Ming was brought to the world on September 12, 1980, in Shanghai, China. Yao Zhiyuan is Yao Ming’s dad, and Fang Fengdi is his mom. Ming’s dad was also a basketball player for a neighborhood Shanghai team, standing 6 feet 10 inches (roughly 208 cm) tall. In the 1970s, Ya...
In 2016, Ichiro Suzuki reached4,257 hitsbetween his pro careers in Japan and MLB. That is enough to top Pete Rose’s career total in the majors and had some arguing that Ichiro’s achievement was equallyor even more impressive. Whether or not he deserves the crown as the true hit king,...
Depending on your age, it might seem like night games have always been a thing at Wrigley Field, the home of the Chicago Cubs--or, you vividly remember the time when there were absolutely no lights, right up to their installation in 1988. ...
1993: Bullets tall twins become tallest NBA tandem Focus on Sport // Getty Images 1993: Bullets tall twins become tallest NBA tandem In 1993, the Washington Bullets draftedGheorghe Muresan, a 7 feet 7 inches tall center from Romania, who wastied as the tallest player in NBA history. Who wa...
We gathered data from the construction companies in the area, by applying a questionnaire, as explained below. We focused on the employability skills they expect from the future graduates for entry-level jobs. The next step was to rank them and to deliver them to the students, through courses...
There is not such a tall observation deck in either St. Petersburg or Moscow. This rock dominating the city, where did it come from? It seems to us that this mysterious rock with a "dreamer" on a high terrace, came to Golovin directly from Bely's sketches and is in fact a variant ...