Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 3 Ncaa championships; 6 NBA championships; a record 6 Mvp awards Abdul-Jabbar's L.A. sports connection goes back to his New York boyhood, when the Dodgers played in Brooklyn: "I was Dodgers all the way. Yankee fans were very obnoxious. I wore my Dodgers cap. Sometimes I had to be ready to run or fight." He still has a home-run bat Pedro Guerrero gave him after the Dodgers beat the Yankees in the 1981 World Series. Abdul-Jabbar, 67, an author of eight books, also is a basketball scholar — a 1940s ball has
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- 7/16/2014
- by Andy Lewis, Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
... I remember back when MSNBC's Keith Olbermann provided me with Los Angeles Dodgers updates. It was the summer of '87, a gallon of milk cost a dollar and a nickel, and Pedro Guerrero was hitting the ball a country mile... sorry, I got stuck in Old Man Story voice for a second. Olbermann has been suspended by MSNBC, where he was an anchor, for making political donations to Democratic candidates. Making contributions to any political purpose is a big no-no at MSNBC, and Olbermann has been suspended without pay. Meanwhile, Fox News takes 50 percent of all its employees' paychecks and deposits the cash into the NRA's bank account. [More >>...
- 11/5/2010
- by Tim Surette
- TV.com
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