Wolf, Jason
His college career culminated with him hitting the game-winning shot that led UNC to win the NCAA Championship in 1982. After college, he entered into professional basketball as a first-round pick by Chicago Bulls during NBA Draft 1984. Over time, Jordan earned fame not on...
The Dodger star of yesteryear set a precedent in Brooklyn and Los Angeles. Three Cy Young awards in four years perfectly depicts his dominant 12-year career in Major League Baseball. It all began when he walked on to the Cincinnati basketball team. The next spring in 1954, he joined the...
My son was a baseball and basketball player when he was younger. And he was pretty good at his age when he was 8 through 11. But, the reality was that his dad (me) is 5-10. His mom is 5-4. And both of his grandfathers are under 6 feet tall. He was never going to be tall...
Here are all songwriting teams, or individual songwriters, who have won two Oscars for best original song in the space of three years. Full list.
With his polished post moves, adept passing, and basketball IQ, Gasol has enjoyed a long and successful NBA career. As he nears the twilight of his playing days, the impact of Gasol's overseas journey on the globalization of the NBA and the rise of European talent cannot be und...
Every year, billionaireWarren Buffett offers $1 million per year for lifeto any employee at his company who fills out a perfect bracket for the NCAA March Madness college basketball tournament. The exact odds of correctly predicting the outcome of all the match-upsdepend on who you ask:Forbes...
In 1939, just eight months after the birth of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Basketball Championship,Dr. James Naismith diedat the age of 78. He had challenged the NCAA to “use every means to put basketball (as...
let alone by the absurd margin he won by. 112 of 120 first place votes suggests an all-time dominant season. For a 22-year-old, former 1st overall pick and Exhibit A of basketball’s new breed of point guard it may very well have been. Compared to his two nearest competitors it most...
Basketball is deliciously ubiquitous on television right now. The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) March Madness competitions are very popular. This may be partly because they symbolize the arrival of spring—which is extra welcome this year after an unrelenting winter. But the ...