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Pottstown, Pennsylvania
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Pottstown is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States about 40 miles northwest of Philadelphia and 20 miles southeast of Reading, on the Schuylkill River. Pottstown was laid out in 1752–53 and named Pottsgrove in honor of its founder, the old name was abandoned at the time of the incorporation as a borough in 1815. In 1888, the limits of the borough were considerably extended, Pottstown is the center of a productive farming and dairying region. In the past, its iron and steel interests were very extensive, in 1900,13,696 people lived there, in 1910,15,599, in 1920,17,431, and in 1940,20,194 people lived there. The population was 22,377 at the 2010 census, Pottstown is not to be confused with Pottsville, a city in Schuylkill County well known for being the home of the Yuengling brewery. Modern-day Pottstown is established on land deeded to William Penn. Germans, Swedes and English were among the first European settlers in the area, after establishment of the first iron forge in 1714, Pottstowns fortunes became tied to the iron industry. Eventually, blast furnaces for production of iron and later opened in the area. Iron and steel production brought the Potts family, iron masters by trade and they established a forge in the area and built a large home just west of the Manatawny Creek. John Potts founded a town in 1761 on part of the 995 acres that he owned and it is the home of the nations oldest mills, Pottstown Roller Mill. Over time, Pottsgrove grew and in 1815, was incorporated under the name Pottstown becoming the borough in Pennsylvania after Norristown. The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad mainline between Reading and Philadelphia reached Pottstown in 1838, the extension of the railroad to Mount Carbon in 1842 facilitated the movement of raw materials and finished goods which helped Pottstowns economy to grow. In the few years following the extension of the railroad, the population grew from 600 to 1,850 residents, Pottstowns metal production grew and notably, steel from the borough was used in the Panama Canal and Golden Gate Bridge. In 1944, the adopted a city manager form of government. By 1964, the saw the need to re-organize the municipal government. At the time, it had one of the largest borough councils in the state and this was reduced to seven members in redrawn wards. Pottstown has a city form of government with a mayor. The mayor is Sharon Thomas and the manager is Mark Flanders, the borough is part of the Sixth Congressional District, the 146th State House District and the 44th State Senate District
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High Street, east of North Hanover Street, looking north.
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Pottsgrove Manor, located on the west end of town, was the home of John Potts.
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
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Hilton Head Island, sometimes referred to as simply Hilton Head, is a Lowcountry resort town located on an island of the same name in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States. It is 20 miles northeast of Savannah, Georgia, and 95 miles southwest of Charleston, the island is named after Captain William Hilton, who in 1663 identified a headland near the entrance to Port Royal Sound, which he named Hiltons Head after himself. The island features 12 miles of beachfront on the Atlantic Ocean and is a vacation destination. In 2004, an estimated 2.25 million visitors pumped more than $1.5 billion into the local economy, the year-round population was 37,099 at the 2010 census, although during the peak of summer vacation season the population can swell to 150,000. Over the past decade, the population growth rate was 32%. Hilton Head Island is a city within the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Beaufort metropolitan area. The island has a history that started with seasonal occupation by Native Americans thousands of years ago, and continued with European exploration. It became an important base of operations for the Union blockade of the Southern ports during the Civil War, the Town of Hilton Head Island incorporated as a municipality in 1983 and is well known for its eco-friendly development. As a result, Hilton Head Island enjoys an unusual amount of tree cover relative to the amount of development, approximately 70% of the island, including most of the tourist areas, is located inside gated communities. It also hosts the Heritage Golf Classic, a PGA Tour tournament played on the Harbour Town Golf Links in Sea Pines Resort, the Sea Pines shell ring can be seen near the east entrance to the Sea Pines Forest Preserve. The ring, one of only 20 in existence, is 150 feet in diameter and is believed to be over 4,000 years old. Archeologists believe that the ring was a heap, created by Indians who lived in the interior of the ring. Two other shell rings on Hilton Head were destroyed when the shells were removed and used to make tabby for roads, the Greens Shell Enclosure, Sea Pines, and Skull Creek shell rings are listed in the National Register of Historic Places and are protected by law. Since the beginning of recorded history in the New World, the waters around Hilton Head Island have been known, occupied and fought for in turn by the English, Spanish, French, and Scots. A Spanish expedition led by Francisco Cordillo explored the area in 1521, in 1663, Captain William Hilton sailed on the Adventure from Barbados to explore lands granted by King Charles II of England to the eight Lords Proprietor. In his travels, he identified a headland near the entrance to Port Royal Sound and he named it Hiltons Head after himself. He stayed for days, making note of the trees, crops, sweet water. In 1698, Hilton Head Island was granted as part of a barony to John Bayley of Ballingclough, County of Tipperary, another John Bayley, son of the first, appointed Alexander Trench as the islands first retail agent
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Harbour Town Marina in
Sea Pines Resort
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Seal
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Location of Hilton Head Island in
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The Baynard Mausoleum, built in 1846, is the oldest intact structure on the island.
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The Hill School
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The Hill School is a coeducational preparatory boarding school located in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, about 35 miles northwest of Philadelphia. The Hill is part of the Ten Schools Admissions Organization, the School opened on May 1,1851, enrolling 25 boys for the first year. According to Paul Chancellor’s The History of The Hill School, 1851-1976, “He wanted to stress that he was not founding still another academy, there is a tendency to think that the boys’ boarding school as we know it existed as long as there have been private schools. Most of the 12 to 15 schools generally considered the group were established in the last half of the nineteenth century. Of this whole group of schools, The Hill was the first to be founded as a boarding school. In the thirty-five years of John Meigs administration The Hill, as it is known to all its boys, has one of the great secondary schools of the country. It might be said to bear the same relation to the English public schools of Rugby and Eton and it has the traditions of scholarship, good breeding, and moral ideals characteristic of the English-speaking race, and with them it has the spirit of American democracy. With the admission of 88 girls In 1918, faculty created an air school for children which has become the The Wyndcroft School. In 1910, several teachers purchased the Rust family farm in Wolfeboro and it also offered water sports, and other outdoor activities, and hired teachers from other prominent schools, and attracted students from both the US and abroad. The camp is currently run by the Wolfeboro Camp School. Areas of the school are included under the High Street Historic District Each grade at The Hill is known as a form, ninth grade is called third form, tenth grade is called fourth form, and so forth. The School’s academic year is divided into trimesters, casual academic dress and casual dress codes apply at other times. Two required nondenominational Chapel services are held during the school week, voluntary worship services are offered each weekend during the school year. The pipe club used to be an club for 5th and 6th formers for the purpose of smoking tobacco during leisure time and it operated by charging a membership fee, as well as from the sale of cigarettes. Playing cards was permitted in the Pipe club on Tuesdays and Thursdays only at the club. Indoor smoking with a lit flame is also grounds for immediate dismissal The Hill is one of the private schools in the United States to have a DECA club. Unlike at other schools, this is an independent activity, as The Hill does not offer courses in marketing. Despite this, several students make it to the international level
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Aerial View of the Quad
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Whatsoever things are true.
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Germantown Academy
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Germantown Academy, informally known as GA and originally known as the Union School, is the oldest nonsectarian day school in the United States. The school was founded on December 6,1759, by a group of prominent Germantown citizens in the Green Tree Tavern on the Germantown Road, Germantown Academy ranks within the nations top 100 private and public schools that send the most students to the Ivy Leagues. The original campus is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the school shares the oldest continuous high school football rivalry with the William Penn Charter School. The academy recently completed the first two phases of a rebuilding plan. The Union School was founded on the evening of December 6,1759, the school was founded by prominent members of the Germantown community who wished to provide a country school for their children. As some of the founders and residents of Germantown were of German descent, the founders chose David James Dove to head the English department and Hilarius Becker of Bernheim, Germany, to head the German school. In 1761, land was given to the school by trustee Charles Bensell, the school found itself in the crossroads of early American history. In 1777, the Battle of Germantown was fought on the front lawn of trustee Benjamin Chew at his home Cliveden less than a mile from campus, during the American Revolution, the school served as a hospital and camp for British soldiers. Legend says that the British officers played the first game of cricket in America on the Academys front lawn, after the war, the school was visited by President George Washington. Washington sent his adopted step-grandson George Washington Parke Custis to the Academy during the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, the school was visited by the Marquis de Lafayette on his 1825 visit to America and hosted Fernando, the adopted son of South American liberator Simón Bolívar. In 1830, Amos Bronson Alcott, father of Louisa May Alcott, was appointed headmaster, after the Civil War, the school was in decline, with a small student body and outdated facilities. In 1877, Dr. William Kershaw was appointed headmaster, during his headmastership, GA graduated a future University of Pennsylvania president, a Supreme Court justice, and a primate of the Episcopal Church. In 1915, Dr. Kershaw retired and Dr. Samuel E. Osbourn was appointed headmaster, under Dr. Osbourns leadership, the school increased in size, focused on scholarship and continued to produce some of Philadelphias finest citizens. Under Osbourn, GA established the eighth oldest Cum Laude Society chapter in the nation, after the World Wars, GA was led by headmaster Donald Miller who was instrumental in the move from Germantown to the current Fort Washington campus. By the 1960s, GA families had left Germantown for nearby suburbs, in five years, The Miracle of Fort Washington occurred as the school moved from city to suburb. In this transition, GA coeducated, accepting girls in 1961 with the first co-ed class graduating in 1968, the school colors are red, black, and blue. Originally, red, white, and blue, the white was changed to black upon the death of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. GA/PC Day is a tradition where GA plays against its rival William Penn Charter School in football, soccer, field hockey, cross country, girls tennis, water polo
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"By persevering we shall see the fruits."
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A view of the Administration Building, an exact replica of the original schoolhouse in Germantown
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A view of the original Germantown campus, 1954
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A view of McLean Hall shortly after its construction in 1965
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Detroit Pistons
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The Detroit Pistons are an American professional basketball team based in Auburn Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The Pistons compete in the National Basketball Association as a club of the leagues Eastern Conference Central Division. The team plays its games at The Palace of Auburn Hills and was founded in Fort Wayne, Indiana as the Fort Wayne Pistons in 1941. The Pistons joined the Basketball Association of America in 1948, in 1949, the NBL and BAA merged to become the NBA, and the Pistons became part of the merged league. Since moving to Detroit in 1957, the Pistons have won three NBA championships in 1989,1990 and 2004. The Detroit Pistons franchise was founded as the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons, owners Fred Zollner and his sister Janets Zollner Corporation was a foundry, manufacturing pistons, primarily for car, truck and locomotive engines. The Zollner Pistons were NBL champions in 1944 and 1945 and they also won the World Professional Basketball Tournament in 1944,1945 and 1946. In 1948, the became the Fort Wayne Pistons, competing in the Basketball Association of America. In 1949, Fred Zollner brokered the formation of the National Basketball Association from the BAA, there are suggestions that Pistons players conspired with gamblers to shave points and throw various games during the 1953–54 and 1954–55 seasons. In particular, there are accusations that the team may have intentionally lost the 1955 NBA Finals to the Syracuse Nationals, in the decisive Game 7, the Pistons led Syracuse 41–24 early in the second quarter, then the Nationals rallied to win the game. Syracuse won on a throw by George King with twelve seconds left in the game. After the 1956–57 season, Zollner decided that Fort Wayne was too small to support an NBA team, although it was the fifth largest city in the United States at the time, Detroit had not seen professional basketball in a decade. In 1947, they had lost the Detroit Gems of the NBL, Zollner decided to keep the Pistons name, believing it made sense given Detroits status as the center of the automobile industry. The new Detroit Pistons played in Olympia Stadium for their first four seasons, the franchise was a consistent disappointment, struggling both on the court and at the box office. During the 1960s and 1970s, the Pistons were characterized by strong individuals. In fact, in their first 27 years in Detroit, they only had three winning seasons, some of the superstars who played for the team included Dave DeBusschere, Dave Bing, Jimmy Walker, and Bob Lanier. At one point DeBusschere was the youngest player-coach in the history of the NBA, DeBusschere became a key player in leading the Knicks to two NBA titles. Detroit qualified for the postseason in four seasons, but never advanced beyond the second round of the playoffs
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Dave Bing joined the team in 1966, where in his rookie year he scored 1,601 points.
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The starting five of the Pistons' 2004 championship team. (left-to right:
Richard Hamilton,
Ben Wallace,
Rasheed Wallace,
Chauncey Billups,
Tayshaun Prince).
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A ticket for Game 1 of the 1988 NBA Finals at The Forum.
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Chuck Daly, coach of the 1989 and 1990 NBA Champions
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Indiana Pacers
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The Indiana Pacers are an American professional basketball team based in Indianapolis. The Pacers compete in the National Basketball Association as a club of the leagues Eastern Conference Central Division. The Pacers were first established in 1967 as a member of the American Basketball Association and they play their home games at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. The team is named after Indianas history with the Indianapolis 500s pace cars, the Pacers have won three championships, all in the ABA. The Pacers were Eastern Conference champions in 2000, the team has won nine division titles. Five Hall of Fame players – Reggie Miller, Chris Mullin, Alex English, Mel Daniels, in early 1967, a group of six investors pooled their resources to purchase a franchise in the proposed American Basketball Association. For their first seven years, they played in the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum, in 1974, they moved to the plush new Market Square Arena in downtown Indianapolis, where they played for 25 years. Early in the Pacers second season, former Indiana Hoosiers standout Bob Slick Leonard became the head coach. Leonard quickly turned the Pacers into a juggernaut and his teams were buoyed by the great play of superstars such as Mel Daniels, George McGinnis, Bob Netolicky, Rick Mount and Roger Brown. The Pacers were – and ended – as the most successful team in ABA history, in all, they appeared in the ABA Finals five times in the leagues nine-year history, a feat that was never bettered by any other ABA franchise. The Pacers were one of four ABA teams that joined the NBA in the ABA–NBA merger in 1976, for the 1976–77 season the Pacers were joined in the merged league by the Denver Nuggets, New York Nets, and San Antonio Spurs. The league charged a $3.2 million entry fee for each former ABA team, as a result of the merger, the four teams dealt with financial troubles. Additionally, the Pacers had some financial troubles which dated back to their days in the ABA. The new NBA teams also were barred from sharing in national TV revenues for four years, the Pacers finished their inaugural NBA season with a record of 36–46. Billy Knight and Don Buse represented Indiana in the NBA All-Star Game, however, this was one of the few bright spots of the Pacers first 13 years in the NBA. During this time, they had only three non-losing seasons and only two playoff appearances, a lack of continuity became the norm for most of the next decade, as they traded away Knight and Buse before the 1977–78 season even started. They acquired Adrian Dantley in exchange for Knight, but Dantley was traded in December, while the Pacers second-leading scorer, the early Pacers came out on the short end of two of the most one-sided trades in NBA history. In 1980, they traded Alex English to the Nuggets in order to reacquire former ABA star George McGinnis, McGinnis was long past his prime, and contributed very little during his two-year return
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Danny Granger led the team in scoring for 5 consecutive seasons.
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Bankers Life Fieldhouse, with its previous signage.
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Charlotte Hornets
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The Charlotte Hornets are an American professional basketball team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Hornets compete in the National Basketball Association, as a club of the leagues Eastern Conference Southeast Division. The team is owned by former NBA player Michael Jordan. The Hornets play their games at the Spectrum Center in Uptown Charlotte. The original Hornets franchise was established in 1988 as an expansion team, in 2002, Shinns franchise relocated to New Orleans and became the New Orleans Hornets. In 2004 the NBA established the Charlotte Bobcats, which was regarded as a new team at the time. In 2013, the New Orleans franchise announced it would rebrand itself the New Orleans Pelicans, ultimately returning the Hornets name, records, the Bobcats were officially renamed the Charlotte Hornets for the 2014–15 NBA season. In 1985, the NBA was planning to expand by four teams by the 1988–1989 season, the Charlotte area had long been a hotbed for college basketball. On April 5,1987, then-NBA Commissioner David Stern called Shinn to tell him his group had been awarded the 24th NBA franchise, franchises were also granted to Miami, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, and Orlando. Originally, the new team was going to be called the Charlotte Spirit, the team received further attention when it chose teal as its primary color, setting off a sports fashion craze in the late 80s and early 90s. The teams uniforms, designed by designer and North Carolina native Alexander Julian. Similar designs by other teams followed, as became a hit. Shinn hired Carl Scheer as the teams first President and General Manager, Scheer preferred a roster of veteran players, hoping to put together a competitive team as soon as possible. Former college coach and veteran NBA assistant Dick Harter was hired as the teams first head coach, in 1988, the Hornets and the Miami Heat were part of the 1988 NBA Expansion Draft. The team also had three draft picks at the 1988 NBA draft, the Hornets first NBA game took place on November 4,1988, at the Charlotte Coliseum, losing 133–93 to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Four days later, the team notched its first-ever victory over the Los Angeles Clippers, on December 23,1988, the Hornets really gave their fans something to cheer about, beating Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls 103–101 in Jordans first return to North Carolina as a professional. The Hornets finished their season with a record of 20-62. Scheer left prior to the 1989–90 season, despite initial concerns that the Coliseum was too big, the Hornets were a runaway hit, leading the NBA in attendance, a feat they would achieve seven more times in Charlotte
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Season tickets for the Hornets' inaugural season.
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The Bobcats in a game versus the
Dallas Mavericks on November 11, 2005.
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Michael Jordan acquired the Bobcats in 2010.
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New York Knicks
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The New York Knickerbockers, commonly referred to as the Knicks, are an American professional basketball team based in New York City. The Knicks compete in the National Basketball Association as a club of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. The team plays its games at Madison Square Garden, located in the borough of Manhattan. They are one of two NBA teams located in New York City, the other is the Brooklyn Nets, along with the Boston Celtics, the Knicks are one of only two original NBA teams still located in its original city. The Knicks were successful during their years and were constant playoff contenders under the franchises first head coach Joe Lapchick. Beginning in 1950, the Knicks made three appearances in the NBA Finals, all of which were losing efforts. Lapchick resigned in 1956 and the team began to falter. It was not until the late 1960s when Red Holzman became head coach that the Knicks began to regain their former dominance, Holzman successfully guided the Knicks to two NBA championships, in 1970 and 1973. The Knicks of the 1980s had mixed success that included six playoff appearances, however, the playoff-level Knicks of the 1990s were led by future Hall of Fame center Patrick Ewing, this era was marked by passionate rivalries with the Chicago Bulls, Indiana Pacers, and Miami Heat. During this time, they were known for playing tough defense under head coaches Pat Riley, during this era, the Knicks made two appearances in the NBA Finals, in 1994 and 1999, though they were unable to win an NBA championship. Since 2000, the Knicks have struggled to regain their former glory, in 2012–13, the franchise won its first division title in 19 years, but was eliminated in the second round of the playoffs by the Indiana Pacers. According to a 2016 Forbes report, the Knicks were the most-valuable NBA franchise, in 1946, basketball, particularly college basketball, was a growing and increasingly profitable sport in New York City. Hockey was another sport at the time and generated considerable profits, however. Max Kase, a New York sportswriter, became the editor at the Boston American in the 1930s. Kase developed the idea of a professional league to showcase college players upon their graduation. Brown, intrigued by the opportunity to attain additional income when the teams were not playing or on the road. Ned Irish, a college basketball promoter, retired sportswriter and then president of Madison Square Garden, was in attendance, Kase originally planned to own and operate the New York franchise himself and approached Irish with a proposal to lease the Garden. Irish explained that the rules of the Arena Managers Association of America stated that Madison Square Garden was required to own any professional teams played in the arena
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Lapchick was responsible for leading the Knicks during their early success. However, these ventures never culminated with a win in the
NBA Finals.
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William 'Red' Holzman guided the Knicks to two championships during his tenure.
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Walt 'Clyde' Frazier
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Portland Trail Blazers
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The Portland Trail Blazers, commonly known as the Blazers, are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon. The Trail Blazers compete in the National Basketball Association as a club of the leagues Western Conference Northwest Division. The team played its games in the Memorial Coliseum before moving to Moda Center in 1995. The team has advanced to the NBA Finals three times, winning the NBA championship once in 1977 and their other NBA Finals appearances were in 1990 and 1992. The team has qualified for the playoffs in 31 seasons of their 45-season existence, including a streak of 21 straight appearances from 1983 through 2003, the second longest streak in NBA history. The Trail Blazers 31 playoff appearances rank third in the NBA only behind the Los Angeles Lakers, six Hall of Fame players have played for the Trail Blazers. Bill Walton is the franchises most decorated player, he was the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player in 1977, four Blazer rookies have won the NBA Rookie of the Year award. Sports promoter Harry Glickman sought a National Basketball Association franchise for Portland as far back as 1955 when he proposed two new teams, the other to be located in Los Angeles. To raise the money for the $3.7 million admission tax, Glickman associated himself to real estate magnates Robert Schmertz of New Jersey, Larry Weinberg of Los Angeles and Herman Sarkowsky of Seattle. Two weeks later, on February 24, team management held a contest to select the teams name, the most popular choice was Pioneers, but that name was excluded from consideration as it was already used by sports teams at Portlands Lewis & Clark College. The name Trail Blazers received 172 entries, and was selected by the judging panel. Despite initial mixed response, the Trail Blazers name, often shortened to just Blazers, along with the Cleveland Cavaliers and Buffalo Braves, the Trail Blazers entered the NBA in 1970 as an expansion team, under coach Rolland Todd. Geoff Petrie and Sidney Wicks led the team in its years. During that span, the team had three coaches, team executive Stu Inman also served as coach. The team won the first pick in the NBA draft twice during that span, in 1972, the team drafted LaRue Martin with the number one pick, and in 1974 the team selected Bill Walton from UCLA. In 1976, the ABA–NBA merger saw those two rival leagues join forces, four ABA teams joined the NBA, the remaining teams were dissolved and their players distributed among the remaining NBA squads in a dispersal draft. The Trail Blazers selected Maurice Lucas in the dispersal draft and that summer, they also hired Jack Ramsay as head coach. The two moves, coupled with the stellar play, led Portland to several firsts, winning record, playoff appearance
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In his first season as the Trail Blazers head coach,
Jack Ramsay led the team to their first playoff berth and eventually
the championship.
Bill Walton was the
NBA Finals MVP.
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Clyde Drexler played in Portland from 1983 to 1995.
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After being drafted by the Trail Blazers several years prior,
Arvydas Sabonis made his NBA debut during the 1995–96 season.
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Boston Celtics
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The Boston Celtics are an American professional basketball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Celtics compete in the National Basketball Association as a club of the leagues Eastern Conference Atlantic Division. Founded in 1946 and one of eight NBA teams to survive the leagues first decade, the Celtics play their home games at the TD Garden, which they share with the National Hockey League s Boston Bruins. The franchises 17 championships are the most of any NBA franchise, as a percentage of championships won, the Celtics are the most successful franchise to date in the major four traditional North American professional sports leagues. The Celtics have played the Lakers a record 12 times in the Finals, including their most recent appearances in 2008 and 2010, four Celtics players have won the NBA Most Valuable Player Award for an NBA record total of 10 MVP awards. Their mascot Lucky the Leprechaun is a nod to the teams Irish heritage, in 1950, the Celtics signed Chuck Cooper, becoming the first NBA franchise to draft a black player. The Celtics struggled during their years, until the hiring of coach Red Auerbach. In the franchises early days, Auerbach had no assistants, ran all the practices, did all the scouting—both of opposing teams and college draft prospects—and scheduled all the road trips. One of the first great players to join the Celtics was Bob Cousy, Cousy eventually became the property of the Chicago Stags, but when that franchise went bankrupt, Cousy went to the Celtics in a dispersal draft. After the 1955–56 season, Auerbach made a stunning trade and he sent perennial All-Star Ed Macauley to the St. Louis Hawks along with the draft rights to Cliff Hagan in exchange for the second overall pick in the draft. Auerbach also acquired Holy Cross standout, and 1957 NBA Rookie of the Year, Russell and Heinsohn worked extraordinarily well with Cousy, and they were the players around whom Auerbach would build the champion Celtics for more than a decade. With Bill Russell, the Celtics advanced to the NBA Finals and defeated the St. Louis Hawks in seven games, Russell went on to win 11 championships, making him the most decorated player in NBA history. In 1958, the Celtics again advanced to the NBA Finals, however, with the acquisition of K. C. Jones that year, the Celtics began a dynasty that would last for more than a decade. In 1959, the Celtics won the NBA Championship after sweeping the Minneapolis Lakers, during that time, the Celtics met the Lakers in the Finals five times, starting an intense and often bitter rivalry that has spanned generations. In 1964, the Celtics became the first NBA team to have an all African-American starting lineup. On December 26,1964, Willie Naulls replaced an injured Tommy Heinsohn, joining Tom Satch Sanders, K. C. Jones, Sam Jones, the Celtics defeated St. Louis 97–84. Boston won its next 11 games with Naulls starting in place of Heinsohn, the Celtics of the late-1950s–60s are widely considered as one of the most dominant teams of all time. Auerbach retired as coach after the 1965–66 season and Russell took over as player-coach, with his appointment, Russell also became the first African-American coach in any U. S. pro sport
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Bob Cousy played 13 years for the team, winning 6 NBA titles.
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Tom Heinsohn coached the Boston Celtics to the 1974 and 1976 NBA Championship.
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Dave Cowens had helped the Celtics win 2 titles during the mid-1970s.
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Philadelphia 76ers
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The Philadelphia 76ers are an American professional basketball team based in Philadelphia metropolitan area. The 76ers compete in the National Basketball Association as a member of the leagues Eastern Conference Atlantic Division. Founded in 1946 and originally known as the Syracuse Nationals, they are one of the oldest franchises in the NBA and they have won three NBA championships, with their first coming as the Syracuse Nationals in 1955. The second title came in the 1966–67 season, a team which was led by Chamberlain, the third title came in the 1982–83 season, won by a team led by Erving and Malone. The 76ers have only been back to the NBA Finals once since then, in 2001, while in the NBL with teams largely consisting of small Midwestern towns, the Nationals put together a 21–23 record, finishing in 4th place. In the playoffs, the Nats would be beaten by the fellow upstate neighbor Rochester Royals in 4 games, in their second season, 1947–48, the Nationals would struggle, finishing in 5th place with a 24–36 record. Despite their struggles, the Nats would make the playoffs, getting swept by the Anderson Duffey Packers in 3 straight games, several teams began to leave the NBL for the BAA as the foundation for an absorption was laid. The Nationals recipe for success began by recruiting Leo Ferris, in the playoffs the Nationals would make quick work of the Hammond Calumet Buccaneers, winning the series in 2 straight games. However, in the semifinals the Nats would fall to the Anderson Duffey Packers for the second season in 4 games. In 1949, the Nationals were one of seven NBL teams that were absorbed by the Basketball Association of America to form the NBA, the Nationals were an instant success in the NBA, winning the Eastern Division in the 1949–1950 season, with a league best record of 51–13. In the playoffs the Nationals continued to play basketball, beating the Philadelphia Warriors in 2 straight. Moving on to the Eastern Finals, the Nationals battled the New York Knickerbockers, in the NBA Finals, the Nationals faced fellow NBL alums the Minneapolis Lakers. In Game 1 of the Finals the Nats lost just their home game of the season 68–66. The Nats did not recover, as they fell behind 3 games to 1 before falling in 6 games, despite several teams leaving the NBA for the National Professional Basketball League before the 1950–1951 season, the Nationals decided to stay put. In their second NBA season the Nationals played mediocre basketball all season, however, in the playoffs the Nats played their best basketball of the season as they stunned the 1st place Philadelphia Warriors in 2 straight, taking Game 1 on the road in overtime 91–89. In the Eastern Finals the Nationals were beaten by the New York Knickerbockers in a hard-fought 5-game series, in the playoffs the Nats knocked off the Philadelphia Warriors again in a 3-game series. However, in the Eastern Finals the Nats fell to the New York Knickerbockers again, the Nationals would finish in 2nd place in a hard fought 3-way battle for first place in the Eastern Division for the 1952–1953 season, with a record of 47–24. In the playoffs the Nationals would face the Boston Celtics dropping Game 1 at home 87–81, the Nationals acquired Alex Groza, and Ralph Beard as the Indianapolis Olympians folded leaving the NBA with just 9 teams for the 1953–1954 season
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Dolph Schayes joined the Syracuse Nationals in 1949 and played with them until their relocation to Philadelphia following the 1962–63 season. He retired in 1964 after playing 29 games with the 76ers.
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Wilt Chamberlain joined the Sixers in 1965, and in his third season (1967), he led the team to the NBA title.
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Philadelphia-born
Joe Bryant was a first round draft pick who played for the 76ers between 1975–1979.
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Ivy League
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The Ivy League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group beyond the sports context. The eight institutions are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, the term Ivy League has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism. While the term was in use as early as 1933, it became official after the formation of the NCAA Division I athletic conference in 1954. Seven of the eight schools were founded during the United States colonial period, Ivy League institutions account for seven of the nine Colonial Colleges chartered before the American Revolution, the other two are Rutgers University and College of William & Mary. Ivy League schools are generally viewed as some of the most prestigious, all eight universities place in the top fifteen of the U. S. News & World Report 2017 nation university rankings, including the top four schools and five of the top eight. Undergraduate enrollments range from about 4,000 to 14,000, making them larger than those of a private liberal arts college. Total enrollments, including students, range from approximately 6,400 at Dartmouth to over 20,000 at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard. Ivy League financial endowments range from Browns $3 billion to Harvards $36.4 billion, as of 2014, Harvard University has an endowment of $36.4 billion. Additionally, each university receives millions of dollars in grants and other subsidies from federal. Harvard University uses the date that the legislature of the Massachusetts Bay Colony formally allocated funds for the creation of a college, Harvard was chartered in 1650, although classes had been conducted for approximately a decade by then. The University of Pennsylvania initially considered its founding date to be 1750, later in Penns early history, the university changed its officially recognized founding date to 1749, which was used for all of the nineteenth century, including a centennial celebration in 1849. In 1899, Penns board of trustees adopted a third founding date of 1740. Penn was chartered in 1755, the same year classes began. Religious affiliation refers to financial sponsorship, formal association with, and promotion by, all of the schools in the Ivy League are private and not currently associated with any religion. Students have long revered the ivied walls of older colleges, planting the ivy was a customary class day ceremony at many colleges in the 1800s. In 1893 an alumnus told The Harvard Crimson, In 1850, the custom of planting the ivy, while the ivy oration was delivered, arose about this time. At Penn, graduating seniors started the custom of planting ivy at a university building each spring in 1873, Ivy planting ceremonies are reported for Yale, Simmons, Bryn Mawr and many others
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Brown University
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Columbia University
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Cornell University
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Dartmouth College
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Basketball
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Basketball is a non-contact team sport played on a rectangular court by two teams of five players each. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches in diameter and 10 feet high that is mounted to a backboard at each end of the court. The game was invented in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, a team can score a field goal by shooting the ball through the basket being defended by the opposition team during regular play. A field goal scores three points for the team if the player shoots from behind the three-point line. A team can also score via free throws, which are worth one point, the team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but additional time is mandated when the score is tied at the end of regulation. The ball can be advanced on the court by passing it to a teammate and it is a violation to lift, or drag, ones pivot foot without dribbling the ball, to carry it, or to hold the ball with both hands then resume dribbling. The game has many techniques for displaying skill—ball-handling, shooting, passing, dribbling, dunking, shot-blocking. The point guard directs the on court action of the team, implementing the coachs game plan, Basketball is one of the worlds most popular and widely viewed sports. Outside North America, the top clubs from national leagues qualify to continental championships such as the Euroleague, the FIBA Basketball World Cup attracts the top national teams from around the world. Each continent hosts regional competitions for teams, like EuroBasket. The FIBA Womens Basketball World Cup features the top womens basketball teams from continental championships. The main North American league is the WNBA, whereas the EuroLeague Women has been dominated by teams from the Russian Womens Basketball Premier League, in early December 1891, Canadian Dr. He sought a vigorous indoor game to keep his students occupied, after rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto a 10-foot elevated track. Basketball was originally played with a soccer ball and these laces could cause bounce passes and dribbling to be unpredictable. Eventually a lace-free ball construction method was invented, and this change to the game was endorsed by Naismith, dribbling was not part of the original game except for the bounce pass to teammates. Passing the ball was the means of ball movement. Dribbling was eventually introduced but limited by the shape of early balls. Dribbling only became a part of the game around the 1950s
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Michael Jordan goes for a
slam dunk
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The first basketball court:
Springfield College
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The 1899 University of Kansas basketball team, with James Naismith at the back, right.
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A basketball game between the
Heart Mountain and Powell High School girls teams, Wyoming, March 1944
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Assistant coach
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In sports, a coach is a person involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportspeople. A coach may also be a teacher, the original sense of the word coach is that of a horse-drawn carriage, deriving ultimately from the Hungarian city of Kocs where such vehicles were first made. Britain took the lead in upgrading the status of sports in the 19th century, for sports to become professionalized, coacher had to become established. It gradually professionalized in the Victorian era and the role was established by 1914. In the First World War, military units sought out the coaches to supervise physical conditioning, a coach, particularly in a professional league, is usually supported by one or more assistant coaches and specialist support staff. The staff may include coordinators, strength and fitness specialists, in elite sport, the role of nutritionists, biomechanists and physiotherapists will all become critical to the overall long-term success of a coach and athlete. In association football, the duties of a coach can vary depending on the level they are coaching at, in professional football, the role of the coach or trainer is limited to the training and development of a clubs first team in most countries. The coach is aided by a number of assistant coaches, one of which carries the responsibility for the training, the coach is also assisted by medical staff and athletic trainers. The medium to long term strategy of a club, with regard to transfer policies, youth development. The system also provides a level of protection against overspending on players in search of instant success. In football, the director of a football team is more commonly awarded the position of manager. Baseball coaches at that level are members of the staff under the overall supervision of the manager. The baseball field manager is essentially equivalent to head coaches in other American professional sports leagues, the term manager used without qualification almost always refers to the field manager, while the general manager is often called the GM. At amateur levels, the terminology is similar to that of other sports. The person known as the manager in professional leagues is called the head coach in amateur leagues. In American football, like other sports, there are many coaches. Sports coaching in the UK follows a structured pattern in principle. In June 2008, the Sports Councils together with the governing bodies of sport formally adopted the UK Coaching Framework at the UK Coaching Summit in Coventry
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Ross Lyon addresses the
St Kilda Football Club players in the
Australian Football League prior to the
2009 AFL Grand Final
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The coaching team of the
Liverpool Football Club monitoring players during a training session.
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National Collegiate Athletic Association
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The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a non-profit association which regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations, and individuals. It also organizes the programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The organization is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 2014, the NCAA generated almost a billion dollars in revenue. 80 to 90% of this revenue was due to the Division I Mens Basketball Tournament and this revenue is then distributed back into various organizations and institutions across the United States. In August 1973, the current three-division setup of Division I, Division II, under NCAA rules, Division I and Division II schools can offer scholarships to athletes for playing a sport. Division III schools may not offer any athletic scholarships, generally, larger schools compete in Division I and smaller schools in II and III. Division I football was divided into I-A and I-AA in 1978. Subsequently, the term Division I-AAA was briefly added to delineate Division I schools which do not field a football program at all, in 2006, Divisions I-A and I-AA were respectively renamed the Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision. Inter-collegiate sports began in the US in 1852 when crews from Harvard University, as other sports emerged, notably football and basketball, many of these same concepts and standards were adopted. Football, in particular, began to emerge as a marquee sport, the IAAUS was officially established on March 31,1906, and took its present name, the NCAA, in 1910. For several years, the NCAA was a group and rules-making body, but in 1921, the first NCAA national championship was conducted. Gradually, more rules committees were formed and more championships were created, a series of crises brought the NCAA to a crossroads after World War II. The Sanity Code – adopted to establish guidelines for recruiting and financial aid – failed to curb abuses, postseason football games were multiplying with little control, and member schools were increasingly concerned about how the new medium of television would affect football attendance. The complexity of problems and the growth in membership and championships demonstrated the need for full-time professional leadership. Walter Byers, previously an executive assistant, was named executive director in 1951. Byers wasted no time placing his stamp on the Association, as college athletics grew, the scope of the nations athletics programs diverged, forcing the NCAA to create a structure that recognized varying levels of emphasis. In 1973, the Associations membership was divided into three legislative and competitive divisions – I, II, and III, five years later in 1978, Division I members voted to create subdivisions I-A and I-AA in football. Until the 1980s, the association did not offer womens athletics, instead, the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, with nearly 1000 member schools, governed womens collegiate sports in the United States
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The current NCAA headquarters office in
Indianapolis
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NCAA National Championship
trophies, rings, and watches won by
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2006 NCAA championship banners hang from the ceiling of the NCAA Hall of Champions in Indianapolis.
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University of Pennsylvania
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The University of Pennsylvania is a private Ivy League research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Incorporated as The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn is one of 14 founding members of the Association of American Universities, the university coat of arms features a dolphin on the red chief, adopted directly from the Franklin familys own coat of arms. Penn was one of the first academic institutions to follow a multidisciplinary model pioneered by several European universities and it was also home to many other educational innovations. The first school of medicine in North America, the first collegiate school. With an endowment of $10.72 billion, Penn had the seventh largest endowment of all colleges in the United States, all of Penns schools exhibit very high research activity. In fiscal year 2015, Penns academic research budget was $851 million, over its history, the university has also produced many distinguished alumni. S. House of Representatives,8 signers of the United States Declaration of Independence, in addition, some 30 Nobel laureates,169 Guggenheim Fellows, and 80 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, have been affiliated with Penn. In addition, Penn has produced a significant number of Fortune 500 CEOs, in 1740, a group of Philadelphians joined together to erect a great preaching hall for the traveling evangelist George Whitefield, who toured the American colonies delivering open air sermons. The building was designed and built by Edmund Woolley and was the largest building in the city at the time and it was initially planned to serve as a charity school as well, however, a lack of funds forced plans for the chapel and school to be suspended. According to Franklins autobiography, it was in 1743 when he first had the idea to establish an academy, however, Peters declined a casual inquiry from Franklin and nothing further was done for another six years. Unlike the other Colonial colleges that existed in 1749—Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, Franklin assembled a board of trustees from among the leading citizens of Philadelphia, the first such non-sectarian board in America. At the first meeting of the 24 members of the Board of Trustees the issue of where to locate the school was a prime concern. The original sponsors of the dormant building still owed considerable construction debts and asked Franklins group to assume their debts and, accordingly, on February 1,1750 the new board took over the building and trusts of the old board. On August 13,1751, the Academy of Philadelphia, using the hall at 4th and Arch Streets. A charity school also was chartered July 13,1753 in accordance with the intentions of the original New Building donors, June 16,1755, the College of Philadelphia was chartered, paving the way for the addition of undergraduate instruction. All three schools shared the same Board of Trustees and were considered to be part of the same institution, the institution of higher learning was known as the College of Philadelphia from 1755 to 1779. In 1779, not trusting then-provost the Rev. William Smiths Loyalist tendencies, the result was a schism, with Smith continuing to operate an attenuated version of the College of Philadelphia. In 1791 the Legislature issued a new charter, merging the two institutions into a new University of Pennsylvania with twelve men from each institution on the new Board of Trustees
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"House intended for the President of the United States" (if Philadelphia remained the National Capital of the United States) from "
Birch's Views of Philadelphia " (1800). Home of the College of Philadelphia/University of Pennsylvania. from 1801 to 1829.
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Arms of the University of Pennsylvania
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Benjamin Franklin, (1705/06-1790), was the primary founder, President of the Board of Trustees, and a trustee of the
Academy and College of Philadelphia, which merged with the
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Charles Willson Peale, 1785)
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Ninth Street Campus (above Chestnut Street): Medical Hall (left) and College Hall (right), both built 1829-1830.
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Philadelphia
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In 1682, William Penn, an English Quaker, founded the city to serve as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony. Philadelphia was one of the capitals in the Revolutionary War. In the 19th century, Philadelphia became an industrial center. It became a destination for African-Americans in the Great Migration. The areas many universities and colleges make Philadelphia a top international study destination, as the city has evolved into an educational, with a gross domestic product of $388 billion, Philadelphia ranks ninth among world cities and fourth in the nation. Philadelphia is the center of activity in Pennsylvania and is home to seven Fortune 1000 companies. The Philadelphia skyline is growing, with a market of almost 81,900 commercial properties in 2016 including several prominent skyscrapers. The city is known for its arts, culture, and rich history, Philadelphia has more outdoor sculptures and murals than any other American city. Fairmount Park, when combined with the adjacent Wissahickon Valley Park in the watershed, is one of the largest contiguous urban park areas in the United States. The 67 National Historic Landmarks in the city helped account for the $10 billion generated by tourism, Philadelphia is the only World Heritage City in the United States. Before Europeans arrived, the Philadelphia area was home to the Lenape Indians in the village of Shackamaxon, the Lenape are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government. They are also called Delaware Indians and their territory was along the Delaware River watershed, western Long Island. Most Lenape were pushed out of their Delaware homeland during the 18th century by expanding European colonies, Lenape communities were weakened by newly introduced diseases, mainly smallpox, and violent conflict with Europeans. Iroquois people occasionally fought the Lenape, surviving Lenape moved west into the upper Ohio River basin. The American Revolutionary War and United States independence pushed them further west, in the 1860s, the United States government sent most Lenape remaining in the eastern United States to the Indian Territory under the Indian removal policy. In the 21st century, most Lenape now reside in the US state of Oklahoma, with communities living also in Wisconsin, Ontario. The Dutch considered the entire Delaware River valley to be part of their New Netherland colony, in 1638, Swedish settlers led by renegade Dutch established the colony of New Sweden at Fort Christina and quickly spread out in the valley. In 1644, New Sweden supported the Susquehannocks in their defeat of the English colony of Maryland
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From top left, the Philadelphia skyline, a
statue of Benjamin Franklin, the
Liberty Bell, the
Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Philadelphia City Hall, and
Independence Hall
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An 18th century map of Philadelphia.
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Penn's Treaty with the Indians by
Benjamin West
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Benjamin Franklin, 1777
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United States Marine Corps
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The U. S. Marine Corps is one of the four armed service branches in the U. S. Department of Defense and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the military officer in the U. S. Armed Forces, is a Marine Corps general, the Marine Corps has been a component of the U. S. Department of the Navy since 30 June 1834, working closely with naval forces for training, transportation, and logistics. The USMC operates posts on land and aboard sea-going amphibious warfare ships around the world, two battalions of Continental Marines were formed on 10 November 1775 in Philadelphia as a service branch of infantry troops capable of fighting for independence both at sea and on shore. The role of the Corps has since grown and evolved, expanding to aerial warfare and earning popular titles such as, Americas third air force, and, second land army. By the mid-20th century, the U. S. Marine Corps had become a major theorist of and its ability to rapidly respond on short notice to expeditionary crises gives it a strong role in the implementation and execution of American foreign policy. As of 2016, the USMC has around 182,000 active duty members and it is the smallest of the U. S. The USMC serves as an expeditionary force-in-readiness and this last clause, while seemingly redundant given the Presidents position as Commander-in-chief, is a codification of the expeditionary responsibilities of the Marine Corps. It derives from similar language in the Congressional acts For the Better Organization of the Marine Corps of 1834, in 1951, the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee called the clause one of the most important statutory – and traditional – functions of the Marine Corps. In addition to its duties, the Marine Corps conducts Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure operations, as well as missions in direct support of the White House. The Marine Band, dubbed the Presidents Own by Thomas Jefferson, Marines from Ceremonial Companies A & B, quartered in Marine Barracks, Washington, D. C. The Executive Flight Detachment also provides transport to Cabinet members. The relationship between the Department of State and the U. S. Marine Corps is nearly as old as the corps itself, for over 200 years, Marines have served at the request of various Secretaries of State. After World War II, an alert, disciplined force was needed to protect American embassies, consulates, in 1947, a proposal was made that the Department of War furnish Marine Corps personnel for Foreign Service guard duty under the provisions of the Foreign Service Act of 1946. A formal Memorandum of Agreement was signed between the Department of State and the Secretary of the Navy on December 15,1948, during the first year of the MSG program,36 detachments were deployed worldwide. Continental Marines manned raiding parties, both at sea and ashore, the Advanced Base Doctrine of the early 20th century codified their combat duties ashore, outlining the use of Marines in the seizure of bases and other duties on land to support naval campaigns. Throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries, Marine detachments served aboard Navy cruisers, battleships, Marine detachments served in their traditional duties as a ships landing force, manning the ships weapons and providing shipboard security. Marines would develop tactics and techniques of amphibious assault on defended coastlines in time for use in World War II, during World War II, Marines continued to serve on capital ships
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A Marine
Corporal and
Lance Corporal of
3rd Battalion, 6th Marines engaging the enemy during
Operation Moshtarak in Afghanistan's
Helmand Province.
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Rider University
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Rider University is a private, coeducational and nonsectarian university located chiefly in the Lawrenceville section of Lawrence Township in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. In addition to regional accreditation, the undergraduate and graduate programs in business are accredited by AACSB, as of 2014 there are 5,400 undergraduate and graduate students attending. The school was founded as The Trenton Business College on October 1,1865, by Henry Beadman Bryant and Henry D. Stratton, operators of the Bryant, the school was located in Temperance Hall at the corner of South Broad and Front Streets in Trenton, New Jersey. Andrew J Rider was appointed as its first president, President Rider owned 500 acres of cranberry bogs near Hammonton, New Jersey. According to tradition, this is why the school colors are cranberry, the school grew and periodically moved to larger quarters. In 1897 the school was renamed The Rider Business College, President Rider stepped down the following year. In 1921 the institution moved to East State Street in Trenton, in 1922 the New Jersey Board of Education granted Rider College permission to confer the degrees of Bachelor of Accounts and Bachelor of Commercial Science. In 1957 Rider Business College introduced liberal studies leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree, in 1959 Rider College moved its campus to a 280-acre suburban tract on Route 206 in Lawrence Township, N. J. On November 15,1961, President Franklin F. Moore announced the reorganization of the college into five separate schools. The changes took effect with the 1962-63 academic year, the five schools included a new School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Rider College merged with nearby Westminster Choir College, located in Princeton, New Jersey, the campus of Westminster became the Princeton campus of Rider College. On April 13,1994, the college became Rider University, in 2007 President Mordechai Rozanski announced the creation of the School of Fine and Performing Arts to integrate the Lawrenceville and Princeton campuses and expand programming for the arts. In recent years President Rozanski announced new academic programs and new financial aid resources, U. S. News & World Report ranked Rider University tied for 22nd in the Regional Universities North category in 2016. Rider University is listed by the Princeton Review in the 2014 edition of its annual college guide The Best 379 Colleges, forbes ranked Rider University 485th on its Americas Top Colleges list in 2015. The 280-acre Lawrenceville campus is in an area three miles north of Trenton and five miles south of Princeton. Facilities are clustered and within walking distance of one another on the large park-like campus. There is a man made lake with a bridge that allows students to cross easily, the Westminster campus is in Princeton, New Jersey. There is a shuttle that provides service between the campuses, central VAX systems provide electronic mail, conferencing, and Internet access tools
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Baseball
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Eugene, Oregon
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Eugene is a city of the Pacific Northwest located in the U. S. state of Oregon. It is located at the end of the Willamette Valley, near the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette Rivers. As of the 2010 census, Eugene had a population of 156,185, it is the second most populous city in the state, the citys population for 2014 was estimated to be 160,561 by the US Census. Eugene is home to the University of Oregon and Lane Community College, the city is also noted for its natural beauty, recreational opportunities, and focus on the arts. Eugenes official slogan is A Great City for the Arts and Outdoors and it is also referred to as the Emerald City and as Track Town, USA. The Nike corporation had its beginnings in Eugene, in 2021, the city will host the 18th Track and Field World Championships. The first people to settle in the Eugene area were known as the Kalapuyans and they made seasonal rounds, moving around the countryside as appropriate to collect and preserve local foods, including acorns, the bulbs of the wapato and camas plants, and berries. They stored these foods in their permanent winter village, when crop activities waned, they returned to their winter villages and took up hunting, fishing, and trading. They were known as the Chifin Kalapuyans and called the Eugene area where they lived Chifin, other Kalapuyan tribes occupied villages that are also now within Eugene city limits. Pee-you or Mohawk Calapooians, Winefelly or Pleasant Hill Calapooians, and they were close-neighbors to the Chifin, intermarried, and were political allies. Some authorities suggest that the Brownsville Kalapuyans were related to the Pee-you and it is likely that since the Santiam had an alliance with the Brownsville Kalapuyans that the Santiam influence also went as far at Eugene. According to archeological evidence, the ancestors of the Kalapuyans may have been in Eugene for as long as 10,000 years, French fur traders had settled seasonally in the Willamette Valley by the beginning of the 19th century. Having already developed relationships with Native communities through intermarriage and trade, by 1828 to 1830 they and their Native wives began year round occupation of the land, raising crops and tending animals. In this process the mixed race families began to impact Native access to land, food supply, in July,1830, intermittent fever struck the lower Columbia region and a year later, the Willamette Valley. Natives traced the arrival of the disease, then new to the Northwest, to the U. S. ship, Owyhee, intermittent fever is thought by researchers now to be malaria. In his book The Coming of the Spirit Pestilence Boyd reports that there was a 92% population loss for the Kalapuyans between 1830 and 1841 and this catastrophic event shattered the social fabric of Kalapuyan society and altered the demographic balance in the Valley. As the demographic pressure from the colonists grew, the remaining Kalapuyans were forcibly removed to reservations, though some Natives escaped being swept into the reservation, most were moved to the Grand Ronde reservation in 1856. Strict racial segregation was enforced and mixed people, known as Métis in French, had to make a choice between the reservation and Anglo society
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Downtown Eugene from
Skinner Butte, Clockwise: Lane County Farmers' Market, Hiking on
Spencer Butte, University of Oregon
Autzen Stadium, Delta Ponds pedestrian bridge
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Seal
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Spencer Butte can be seen from much of the city.
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Steve Belko
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Stephen Maxmillian Steve Belko was an American college basketball coach at Idaho State College and the University of Oregon. He was later the third commissioner of the Big Sky Conference, the son of Russian immigrants, Belko was born in Gary, Indiana and graduated from Froebel High School. He attended Compton Junior College in southern California for a year, with plans to play basketball at USC, where his older brother Max starred in football. A two-sport athlete for the Vandals, he was a guard and small forward in basketball and a halfback and quarterback on the team. Belko opted not to play baseball, though he considered it his best sport and he was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity and was senior class president. Following his military service, Belko briefly returned to Lewiston, then moved to the University of Idaho in Moscow, in 1950, Belko was hired as the head basketball coach at Idaho State College in Pocatello. His Bengals soon dominated the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference and made the NCAA tournament in four consecutive seasons, the NCAA tournament field varied from 22 to 25 teams in the mid-1950s. Belkos six-season record at Idaho State was 109–51, and he was named the coach of the year three times. The Bengals conference record in his last four seasons was 39–3 and this success led to his hiring in June 1956 at Oregon, then a member of the Pacific Coast Conference. Belko was the coach of the Ducks for fifteen seasons and posted a 179–211 record. His teams made the NCAA tournament twice, in 1960 and 1961, the 1960 team advanced to the Western regional finals, the national quarterfinals. After five years as an independent, Oregon joined the Pacific-8 Conference for the 1964–65 season, in February 1970, the Ducks upset three-time defending national champion UCLA at McArthur Court in Eugene, winning 78–65 to snap the Bruins 25-game winning streak. Following a pair of 17–9 seasons, Belko stepped down in April 1971 at age 55, after a year as assistant athletic director, Belko left the Oregon athletic department in 1972 to direct the Far West Classic basketball tournament in Portland for three years. In 1975, he moved to Boise to work for the Big Sky Conference as an evaluator of basketball officials, Belko was named commissioner of the conference in December 1976 and served from 1977 to 1981
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Wickiup 1951, Idaho State College yearbook
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Pac-12 Conference
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The Pac-12 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference that operates in the Western United States. It participates in 22 NCAA sports in the NCAAs Division I, its teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision. The conferences 12 members are located in Arizona, California, Colorado, Oregon, Utah and they include each states flagship public university, four additional public universities, and two private research universities. It became the Pac-12 in 2011 with the addition of the University of Colorado, with Arizona States softball title in 2011, the conference won its 400th NCAA Championship. The current commissioner of the conference is Larry Scott, Scott replaced Thomas C, hansen, who retired in July 2009 after 26 years in that position. Prior to joining the Pac-10, Scott was Chairman and CEO of the Womens Tennis Association, the Pac-12 has twelve full member institutions. Football currently is the sport where the conference is divided evenly into two geographic divisions, the North Division and the South Division. The Pac-12 spans six states in the Western United States, Arizona, California, Colorado, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. Unusual for a conference, the Pac-12s members are spread evenly between 3 regions, with 4 schools each in California, the Pacific Northwest, and the Four Corners region. The Pac-12 has four affiliate member institutions, three in California and Boise State University in Idaho, the school will maintain its Pac-12 affiliation in wrestling, which the WAC does not sponsor. No school has left the Pac-12 since its founding as the AAWU in 1959, two members of the PCC were not invited to join the AAWU or its successors. As private schools, Stanford and USC are not obligated to publish employees salaries, Eight of the twelve member schools are members of the Association of American Universities, including all of the conferences California schools. The only FBS conference with more AAU members is the Big Ten with 13 out of 14 member institutions having AAU membership, in 2014, of the twelve member schools, nine were ranked in the top 100 universities in the world. Total revenue includes ticket sales, contributions and donations, rights/licensing, student fees, school funds and all sources including TV income, camp income, food. Updated to show institutional reporting to the Department of Education as shown on the DOE Equity in Athletics website for the 2013-14 academic year, the national ranking of revenue is based on 2075 institutions reporting to the Department of Education that year. The roots of the Pac-12 Conference go back to December 2,1915, charter members were the University of California, the University of Washington, the University of Oregon, and Oregon Agricultural College. The conference began play in 1916, one year later, Washington State College joined the league, followed by Stanford University in 1918. In 1922, the PCC expanded to eight teams with the admission of USC, Montana joined the Conference in 1924, and in 1928, the PCC grew to 10 members with the addition of UCLA
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NCAA National Championship
trophies, rings, watches won by UCLA teams
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Big Game, 2004 between California and Stanford
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Stu Jackson
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Stuart Wayne Stu Jackson is an American former basketball coach and a former Executive Vice President of the National Basketball Association. He has coached two different NBA teams, the New York Knicks in 1990 and 1991, and the Vancouver Grizzlies in 1997, currently, Jackson serves as the Associate Commissioner for the Big East. Jackson played basketball at the University of Oregon and Seattle University, Jackson worked as an associate coach and head recruiting coordinator under Rick Pitino at Providence College from 1985 to 1987. He also worked as an assistant coach at Washington State University from 1983 to 1985, Jackson was named the head coach of the New York Knicks in 1989 at the age of 33, becoming the then second-youngest head coach in NBA history. The Knicks went 52-45 during his tenure, upsetting the Boston Celtics in the 1990 playoffs before losing to the eventual NBA champion Detroit Pistons and he was head coach of the Wisconsin Badgers in the 1992–1993 and 1993–1994 seasons, leading the Badgers to the NCAA Tournament. In June 2007, he became the Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations for the NBA and his duties included being in charge of on-the-court operations, scheduling, game rules, conduct, discipline and serving as the chair of the Competition Committee. Jackson holds a degree in business administration from Seattle University. Jackson resides in New York with his four daughters, Stu Jackson profile at NBA. com BasketballReference. com, Stu Jackson
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Stu Jackson, 2008
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Ernie Kent
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Ernest Ernie Kent is an American college basketball coach. He is the mens basketball coach at Washington State University. He is the head mens basketball coach at the University of Oregon. Kent was previously an assistant at Stanford University and also coached abroad in Saudi Arabia, Kent was a college basketball commentator with the Pac-12 Network. Kent played for the Oregon Ducks from 1973 to 1977 under head coach Dick Harter, nicknamed Million Moves, he was a part of the Kamikaze Kids, known for constant hustle and extremely aggressive play in their attempts to win ball games. Knee injuries ended his collegiate career, Kent played high school basketball for West High School in Rockford, Illinois. Between 1980 and 1987, Ernie Kent spent his days in Saudi Arabia coaching basketball for the Al-Khaleej Club. Kent and his wife were immersed in Arab culture, living in a Shiite Muslim village for their first two years, also working for the Arabian American Oil Company in Dhahran and he recalls learning how to be patient, since a translator was required for communication with his team. It was a period of his life and taught him how to deal with extreme pressure. After returning to the United States from Saudi Arabia, he became an assistant coach at Colorado State University and he later went on to become the head coach at Saint Marys College of California where he remained for six years. While at Saint Marys, Kents coaching relationship with the players changed drastically and his players told Kent that they could not relate to him due to his militaristic style. From that moment on, Kent reversed his stance and became more compassionate toward his players. He took his players every season to go to a retreat, where his players bonded with each other, strengthening the cohesiveness of the team. Under Kent, the Ducks reached the NCAA tournament five times, in 2000,2002,2003,2007 and 2008 and he also led the Ducks to the National Invitation Tournament Final Four in 1999 and 2004. In the 2002 season, Kent led the team to its first conference title since 1939 despite the Pacific-10 Conference sending a record of six teams into the NCAA tournament, under Kent, Oregon was known for playing an up-tempo pace and guard-heavy lineups. As head coach, Kent was known for his ability, bringing in a class of highly regarded recruits in 2004 such as Maarty Leunen, Bryce Taylor, Chamberlain Oguchi. He was highly criticized for failing to sign two of the highest profile recruits to come from the state of Oregon for the class of 2007, Kyle Singler, the following year, he signed the #21 recruiting class. During his tenure, he had four players drafted in the first round of the NBA Draft in Fred Jones, Luke Ridnour, but after the season, the schools athletic director at the time, Bill Moos, issued a statement affirming his support for Kent
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Kent during a Oregon men's basketball game on March 4, 2010
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Pat Riley
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Patrick James Riley is an American professional basketball executive, and a former coach and player in the National Basketball Association. He has been the president of the Miami Heat since 1995. He is regarded as one of the greatest NBA coaches of all time, Riley has served as the coach of five championship teams, four with the Los Angeles Lakers. He was named NBA Coach of the Year three times and he was head coach of an NBA All-Star Game team nine times, eight times with the Western Conference team and once with the Eastern team. In 1996 he was named one of the 10 Greatest Coaches in the NBA history, as a player, he played for the Lakers championship team in 1972. Riley most recently won the 2012 and 2013 NBA championships with the Heat as their team president and he is the first North American sports figure to win a championship as a player, coach, and executive. He received the Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award from the NBA Coaches Association on June 20,2012, Riley was born in Rome, New York and raised in Schenectady. His father, Leon Riley, played twenty-two seasons of minor league baseball as an outfielder and first baseman, Riley played basketball for Linton High School in Schenectady, New York under head coach Walt Przybylo and his assistants Bill Rapavy and Ed Catino. In 1991, Riley called it, One of the greatest games in the history of Schenectady basketball, Riley was a versatile athlete in college, participating in both basketball and football. Coached by Adolph Rupp, UK lost to Texas Western, a game that was reenacted in the movie Glory Road, in his senior year Riley made First Team All-SEC, one of the only players in storied Kentucky Basketball history to make two or more First Team All-SEC teams. He was selected by the San Diego Rockets in the 1st round of the 1967 NBA draft and he retired after the 1975–76 NBA season as a member of the Western Conference champion Phoenix Suns. Riley finished his NBA playing career with a 7.4 points per game scoring average, Riley returned to the NBA in 1977 as a broadcaster for the Lakers. During the 1979–80 season, when the head coach, Jack McKinney, was injured during a near fatal bicycle accident, assistant coach Paul Westhead took over the teams head coaching duties. Riley then moved from the broadcast booth to the bench as one of Westheads assistant coaches, however, the team lost in the playoffs the next year to the Moses Malone-led Houston Rockets. Six games into the 1981–82 season, Magic Johnson said he wished to be traded because he was playing for Westhead. Shortly afterward, Lakers owner Jerry Buss fired Westhead, at an ensuing press conference, with Jerry West at his side, Buss named West head coach. West, however, balked, and Buss awkwardly tried to name West as offensive captain and then named West, West made it clear during the press conference that he would only assist Riley, and that Riley was the head coach. Thereafter, Riley was the head coach, until his status became permanent
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Riley speaks at
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Riley in 2007 during his second stint as the Heat's coach
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Larry Bird
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Larry Joe Bird is an American professional basketball executive, former coach and former player, currently serving as president of the Indiana Pacers in the National Basketball Association. Since retiring as a player for the Boston Celtics, he has been a mainstay in the Indiana Pacers organization, Bird was a 12-time NBA All-Star and was named the leagues Most Valuable Player three consecutive times. He played his professional career for Boston, winning three NBA championships and two NBA Finals MVP awards. He was a member of the 1992 United States mens Olympic basketball team won the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Bird was voted to the NBAs 50th Anniversary All-Time Team in 1996 and he served as head coach of the Indiana Pacers from 1997 to 2000. In 2003, he assumed the role of president of operations for the Pacers. After a year away from the position, he announced he would return to the Pacers as president of operations in 2013. In addition to being part of the 50–40–90 club, he is the person in NBA history to be named Most Valuable Player, Coach of the Year. Bird was born in West Baden Springs, Indiana to Georgia and Claude Joseph Joe Bird and he was raised in nearby French Lick, where his mother worked two jobs to support Larry and his five siblings. Bird has said that being poor as a child still motivates him to this day, Georgia and Joe divorced when Larry was in high school, and Joe committed suicide about a year later. Bird received a scholarship to college basketball for the Indiana University Hoosiers in 1974. After less than a month on campus he dropped out of school and he returned to French Lick, enrolling at Northwood Institute in nearby West Baden, and working municipal jobs for a year before enrolling at Indiana State University in Terre Haute in 1975. Indiana State would lose the game 75–64, with Bird scoring 19 points, despite failing to win the championship, Bird earned numerous year-end awards and honors for his outstanding play, including the Naismith College Player of the Year Award. For his college career, he averaged 30.3 points,13.3 rebounds, Bird also appeared in one game for the baseball team, going 1-for-2 with 2 RBI. Bird was selected by the Boston Celtics with the sixth pick in the 1978 NBA draft. He did not sign with the Celtics immediately, instead, he played out his season at Indiana State. After protracted negotiations, Bird inked a five-year, $3.25 million contract with the team, shortly afterwards, NBA draft eligibility rules were changed to prevent teams from drafting players before they were ready to sign, a rule known as the Bird Collegiate Rule. Bird immediately transformed the Celtics into a contender, helping them improve their win total by 32 games from the year before he was drafted
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Bird battling for a rebound with
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A Larry Bird plaque at
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Penn State Nittany Lions basketball
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The Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team is a NCAA Division I college basketball team representing the Pennsylvania State University. They are a member of the Big Ten Conference and play games at the 15, 261-seat Jordan Center. Their student cheering section is known as The Legion of Blue, the program has nine NCAA tournament appearances with its best finish coming in 1954, reaching the Final Four. Its most recent appearance was in 2011, when the team lost to the Temple Owls in the round of 64, the program also has 10 appearances in the National Invitation Tournament, with the most recent being in 2009, when they beat Baylor to win the NIT championship. At a school where the program captures the vast majority of media and fan interest. According to ESPN. com writer and Penn State graduate Dana ONeil, In ONeils view, the team normally practices at a dedicated facility within the Jordan Center. The following week, the team was evicted from the BJC for a career fair, on both occasions, the team was forced to practice at the nearby Intramural Building, a facility normally used by Penn States volleyball teams. Although retrofitted with basketball hoops, the left much to be desired. Multiple holes for volleyball net stanchions had to be taped over, during the Bon Jovi rehearsals, the hoops had been visibly lower than regulation height. While this error was corrected the following week, one of the hoops remained visibly misaligned, the Nittany Lions have appeared in the NCAA Tournament nine times. The Nittany Lions have appeared in the National Invitation Tournament ten times and they were NIT champions in 2009. The Nittany Lions have appeared in the College Basketball Invitational one time
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Atlantic 10 Conference
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The Atlantic 10 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference whose schools compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Associations Division I. Although some of its members are state-funded, half of its membership is made up of private, despite the name, there are 14 full-time members, and two affiliate members that participate in womens field hockey only. The Atlantic 10 Conference was founded in 1975 as the Eastern Collegiate Basketball League, at that time, basketball was its only sport. After its first season, it added other than basketball. However, despite its official names, it was known as the Eastern 8. Further membership changes saw the league expand to its maximum of 16 members, from 1997 through 2006, the league also operated a football conference, during that period, more than 20 schools were participating in A-10 competition in at least one sport. This ended when the A-10 football programs all departed to join a new football conference sponsored by the Colonial Athletic Association, in 2012, Butler joined the conference after leaving the Horizon League and VCU joined after leaving the CAA. Conference realignment in 2013 saw the departure of Temple to the American Athletic Conference, Butler and Xavier to the reconfigured Big East, george Mason joined from the CAA, and Davidson from the Southern Conference announced they would join in 2014. The league office headquarters has been located in Newport News, Virginia since the Fall of 2009, prior to that, the headquarters was in Philadelphia, within a few miles of member schools Saint Josephs and La Salle. The conference currently has media deals with ESPN, CBS Sports Network, ^ – Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Richmond also played football within the A-10 from 1997 to 2006 after the Yankee Conference was absorbed. None of these institutions played football in the A-10 during their tenure as full members, membership dates include time in the Yankee Conference which merged into the A-10 in 1997. Notes Boston University dropped football after the 1997–98 season, connecticut moved to FBS after the 1999–2000 season, which eventually joined the Big East for that sport in the 2004–05 season. Hofstra dropped football after the 2009–10 season, Northeastern dropped football after the 2009–10 season. Villanova was originally a charter and full member of the A-10 during the 1976–77 through the 1979–80 seasons in all sports except football, Full members Full members Associate members Assoc. member Notes* - Virginia Tech did not participate in wrestling. There are a number of intense rivalries within the Atlantic 10, with rivalries that carry over from the Big 5 which includes Saint Josephs, La Salle, URI and UMass also have a long-standing rivalry. St. Bonaventure and Duquesne also maintain a rivalry that predates their affiliation with the conference, UMass and Temple also had a basketball rivalry while John Chaney was coaching Temple but it has died down a bit since, and even more so now that Temple has left the conference. Due to both sharing the Ram mascot, the Fordham - URI rivalry has increased in recent years as the competitions are heralded as The Battle of the Rams. The long-standing crosstown rivalry between Richmond and VCU, now known as the Capital City Classic, became a rivalry with VCUs arrival in the A10
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The Oregonian
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The Oregonian is a daily newspaper based in Portland, Oregon, owned by Advance Publications. It is the oldest continuously published newspaper on the U. S. west coast, founded as a weekly by Thomas J. Dryer on December 4,1850, and published daily since 1861. It is the largest newspaper in Oregon and the second largest in the Pacific Northwest by circulation, the Sunday edition is published under the title The Sunday Oregonian. The Oregonian received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the gold medal annually awarded by the organization. The papers staff or individual writers have received seven other Pulitzer Prizes, chief among these pioneer community organizers seeking establishment of a Portland press were Col. W. W. Chapman and prominent local businessman Henry W. Corbett. There the pair met Thomas J. Dryers press was transported to Portland, each weekly issue consisted of four pages, printed six columns wide. Little attention was paid to current news events, with the bulk of the papers content devoted to political themes, a loud and bitter rivalry between the competing news organs ensued. Henry Pittock became the owner in 1861 as compensation for unpaid wages, pittocks goal was to focus more on news than the bully pulpit established by Dryer. From 1866 to 1872 Harvey W. Scott was the editor, Henry W. Corbett bought the paper from a cash-poor Pittock in October 1872 and placed William Lair Hill as editor. Scott, fired by Corbett for supporting Ben Holladays candidates, became editor of Holladays rival Bulletin newspaper, the paper went bankrupt around 1874, Holladay having lost $200,000 in the process. Corbett sold The Oregonian back to Pittock in 1877, marking a return of Scott to the editorial helm. A part-owner of the paper, Scott would remain as editor-in-chief until shortly before his death in 1910, in 1881, the first Sunday Oregonian was published. The paper became known as the voice of business-oriented Republicans, as evidenced by consistent endorsement of Republican candidates for president in every election before 1992. The new building was, the same as its predecessor, called the Oregonian Building and it contained about 100,000 square feet of floor space, including the basement but not the tower. The newspaper did not move again until 1948, the 1892 building was demolished in 1950. Following the death of Harvey Scott in 1910, the papers editor-in-chief was Edgar B, piper, who had previously been managing editor. Piper remained editor until his death in 1928, in 1922, The Morning Oregonian launched KGW, Oregons first commercial radio station. Five years later, KGW affiliated with NBC, the newspaper purchased a second station, KEX, in 1933, from NBC subsidiary Northwest Broadcasting Co
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The Weekly Oregonian front page on March 19, 1859
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Harvey W. Scott as he appeared in the 1870s.
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The Morning Oregonian, January 22, 1912.
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Find a Grave
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Find a Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of cemetery records. It is owned by Ancestry. com, the worlds largest for-profit genealogy company, the site was created in 1995 by Salt Lake City resident Jim Tipton to support his hobby of visiting the burial sites of celebrities. He later added an online forum, Find a Grave was launched as a commercial entity in 1998, first as a trade name and then incorporated in 2000. The site later expanded to include graves of non-celebrities, in order to allow visitors to pay respect to their deceased relatives or friends. In 2013, Tipton sold Find a Grave to Ancestry. com, burial information is a wonderful source for people researching their family history. In a September 30,2013, press release, Ancestry, as of March 2017, Find a Grave contained over 159 million burial records and 75 million photos. The website contains listings of cemeteries and graves from around the world, american cemeteries are organized by state and county, and many cemetery records contain Google Maps and photographs of the cemeteries and gravesites. Individual grave records may contain dates and places of birth and death, biographical information, cemetery and plot information, photographs, Interment listings are added by individuals, genealogical societies, and other institutions such as the International Wargraves Photography Project. Contributors must register as members to submit listings, called memorials, the submitter becomes the manager of the listing but may transfer management. Only the current manager of a listing may edit it, although any member may use the features to send correction requests to the listings manager. Managers may add links to other listings of deceased spouses, parents, members may post requests for photos of a specific grave, these requests will be automatically sent to other members who have registered their location as being near that grave. Find a Grave also maintains lists of memorials of famous persons by their claim to fame, such as Medal of Honor recipients, religious figures, Find a Grave exercises editorial control over these listings. Canadian Headstones Interment. net National Cemetery Administrations Nationwide Gravesite Locator Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness Tombstone tourist Colker, web site answers grave concerns about stars. Web site attracts millions of grave-seekers, Find VIPs who R. I. P. through online cemetery. Genealogy, Find a Grave tremendous on many different levels, terre Haute, Indiana, Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. Archived from the original on May 14,2011, tip, Find a Grave has info youre dying to know. Tracking Down Relatives, Visiting Graves Virtually, media related to Images from Find A Grave at Wikimedia Commons Official website
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Find A Grave.com's current headquarters in
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Clair Bee
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He was born in Grafton, West Virginia, and was a graduate of Waynesburg University where he played football, baseball, and tennis. He was born to James Edward Bee and Margaret Ann Skinner, Bees teams won 95 percent of their games from 1931 to 1951, including 43 in a row from 1935 to 1937. Bee holds the Division I NCAA record for highest winning percentage, Bee resigned in 1951 after several of his players were implicated in the CCNY Point Shaving Scandal. LIU shut down its athletic program shortly afterward, Bee also coached the football team at LIU until it was disbanded in 1940. He coached the National Basketball Associations Baltimore Bullets from 1952 to 1954, Bee was known as the Innovator. His contributions to the game of basketball include the 1-3-1 zone defense, Bee also served as co-host of the early NBC sports-oriented television program Campus Hoopla on WNBT from 1946 to 1947. His influence on the game extended to strategies sports camps, writing technical coaching books. By the time he left coaching in the 1950s, Bee had already begun writing the Chip Hilton Sports Series for younger readers, Bee was inducted into the Basketball Hall Of Fame in 1968. In 1968, he cofounded the Kutshers Sports Academy, one of Bees grandfathers was Ephraim Bee, a member of the first West Virginia Legislature
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Red Kellett
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Donald Stafford Red Kellett was the President and General Manager of the Baltimore Colts franchise of the National Football League from 1953 until 1966. He also had a playing career in Major League Baseball as an infielder for the Boston Red Sox. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Kellett attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn and he then attended Peekskill Military Academy in Peekskill, New York, where he lettered in three sports. Kellet enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania where he majored in economics, in his first year, he captained the freshman football, basketball, and baseball teams. He reached varsity level for all three of the sports the next year, and received a total of nine varsity letters while at Penn and he played halfback on the football team, guard on the basketball team, and alternated between second baseman and shortstop on the baseball team. As a senior, he was captain for the baseball team and he also was President of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and served on the board of governors for Houston Hall. After graduating Penn, Kellett played briefly for the Boston Red Sox and he appeared in nine games during the 1934 season. Following the season, he would be sent to the minors and he also spent a brief amount of time with the Syracuse Chiefs before going into coaching full-time. In autumn 1935, he was named head coach for the football and basketball teams at Ursinus College in Collegeville. He became head coach of the varsity team after his brief stint with the chiefs ended. In 1941, he left Ursinus to return to his alma mater, at Penn, he served as Director of Freshmen Athletics and head coach of the freshmen basketball and football teams. He later became coach of the varsity basketball team. He left Penn after the 1946–47 season to become the announcer for WFIL in Philadelphia. The first game he announced was also the first commercial football telecast for the station, Kellett went on to head operations for WFILs radio and television station. During the 1948–49 season, Kellett called New York Knicks games on WOR, the Baltimore Colts made Kellett team President and General Manager shortly after the team became a National Football League franchise. Kellett is credited for helping the team get Johnny Unitas, a move made the team a household name. In 1959, Kellett was a contender for NFL Commissioner and he was supported by four team owners who opposed the candidacy of Marshall Leahy due to his plan to move the league office to San Francisco. After eight days of deadlock, Los Angeles Rams general manager Pete Rozelle was selected as a compromise candidate, Kellett retired to Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1966, and died there from a heart attack at age 61
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Jack McCloskey
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John William Jack McCloskey is a retired American basketball player, coach and executive. He served in World War II as a lieutenant commanding a ship for Marines. He played one game for the Philadelphia Warriors of the NBA during the 1953 season and he served as head coach of the University of Pennsylvania from 1956 to 1966, and of Wake Forest from 1966 to 1972. Following that, he served as the coach of the Portland Trail Blazers from 1972 through 1974. He followed this stint as an assistant coach to Jerry West, when West became general manager, McCloskey felt he had earned the right to become head coach, but Jack McKinney was hired instead. In 1979, he became manager of the Detroit Pistons. After the Chicago Bulls swept an injury-riddled Piston team in the 1991 Eastern Conference Finals and he acquired Darrell Walker, Brad Sellers, and Orlando Woolridge, and let go of Vinnie Johnson and James Edwards to try to make the team younger. He drafted Doug Overton in the round that year, who did not even play the following season. The Pistons struggled with their chemistry, as key subs like John Salley did not improve their performance and they lost in five games to the New York Knicks in the first round, and McCloskey left the team. He later served in the front offices of the Minnesota Timberwolves, and the Toronto Raptors, on March 29,2008, McCloskey had his name honored in Detroit, with banner raised at The Palace of Auburn Hills. Now retired, he resides in Georgia. His daughter is the writer Molly McCloskey, whose memoir Circles Around the Sun, In Search of a Lost Brother recounts the story of the McCloskey family with particular focus on Mollys brother, Basketball-Reference. com, Jack McCloskey Basketball-Reference. com, Jack McCloskey
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Chuck Daly
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Charles Jerome Chuck Daly was an American basketball head coach. The Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award is named after him, born in St. Marys, Pennsylvania, to Earl and Geraldine Daly on July 20,1930, Daly attended Kane Area High School in nearby Kane. He matriculated at St. Bonaventure University for one year transferring to Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. After serving two years in the military, he began his coaching career in 1955 at Punxsutawney Area High School in Punxsutawney. After compiling a 111–70 record in eight seasons at Punxsutawney High School, during his six seasons at Duke, the Blue Devils won the Atlantic Coast Conference championship and advanced to the Final Four, both in 1964 and 1966. Daly then replaced Bob Cousy as head coach at Boston College in 1969, the Eagles recorded an 11–13 record in Dalys first year at the school, and improved to 15–11 in 1971. Daly became the coach at the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. Penn won twenty or more games and captured the Ivy League title in each of its first four seasons with Daly at the helm. The most successful campaign was his first in 1972, when the Quakers recorded a 25–3 record overall, an additional significant success for Daly was in 1979, when all five starters on Pennsylvanias Final Four team had initially been recruited by Daly. His overall record after six seasons at Penn was 125–38, in 1978, Daly joined the NBAs Philadelphia 76ers as an assistant coach. During the 1981 season, the Cleveland Cavaliers hired him as the head coach that season. He then returned to the 76ers as a broadcaster until he was hired in 1983 by the Detroit Pistons, while serving as the Pistons coach, Daly was also a color commentator for TBSs NBA Playoff coverage. Daly was named coach of the U. S. Dream Team that won the medal at the 1992 Olympics. Daly stayed with the Nets for two seasons, before his first retirement, Daly again took up a role as color commentator for TNTs NBA coverage during the mid-1990s before coming out of retirement to coach the Orlando Magic at the beginning of the 1997-98 season. Daly stayed two seasons with the Magic and then retired permanently, Daly was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in March 2009 and died on May 9,2009, at the age of 78. He is survived by his wife Terry and their daughter Cydney and he is buried at Riverside Memorial Park in Tequesta, Florida
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Fran Dunphy
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Francis Joseph Dunphy is an American college basketball coach. He is currently the mens basketball coach at Temple University. He succeeded John Chaney in 2006, Dunphys coaching career began at the United States Military Academy, where he served as an assistant under head coach Dan Dougherty. In 1977 he became the basketball coach and accounting teacher of his high school alma mater. He remained there until becoming Lefty Ervin’s assistant at La Salle University, the following year, Dunphy joined Gary Williams’ staff at American University. He returned to La Salle in 1985, serving one season under Ervin. He left La Salle to become head coach Tom Schneiders top assistant at Penn in 1988, Dunphy succeeded Schneider as Penn head coach a year later. In 1989, Dunphy was named the 16th head coach at Penn and he compiled a 310–163 overall record and won 10 Ivy League titles in his 17-year career. Dunphys 310 wins are the most by any Penn coach and are second all-time in the Ivy League to Princetons Pete Carril and his Quaker teams won 48 straight Ivy League games and four league titles from 1992 through 1996. His 1993–94 team had a 25–3 record and was ranked 25th in the CNN/USA Today Coaches’ Poll, in 1994, Penn upset sixth-seeded Nebraska 90–80 in the NCAA Tournament. By taking the job, Dunphy became the first man ever to lead two Big 5 basketball programs, in 2008, Dunphy coached Temple to the Atlantic 10 tournament championship. He also won the Herb Good Eastern Coach of the Year Award for the 2007–08 season and they lost a close game to Michigan State in the first round of the 2008 NCAA tournament. The 2009 team placed 2nd in the A10 conference for the second straight season, Dunphys 2009-10 Temple team won 11 of its first 13 games, including a victory over cross-town rival and then-third ranked Villanova, before falling to top-ranked Kansas. The 2009-10 team also ranked in the top twenty-five for more than eleven weeks in both major polls, and won its third consecutive Atlantic 10 tournament title. However, for the third season, Dunphys Owls lost in the first round of NCAA tournament. Temple would lose in the round to 2-seed San Diego State 71-64 in a gut-wrenching double overtime thriller. Dunphy would lead the Owls back to the tournament in the 2011-12 season, the Owls would knock off 8-seed North Carolina State 76-72 in the second round before losing to 1-seed Indiana 58-52 in a game that Temple led the majority of the way. After placing 9th and a tie for 3rd in their first two years in the American Athletic Conference, the Temple Owls won the 2015-16 regular season AAC title with a 14-4 conference record
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Steve Donahue
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Steve Donahue is an American college basketball coach, who is currently the head coach of the Penn Quakers mens basketball team. He is the head coach of Boston College and Cornell. Donahue is a native of Springfield Township, Pennsylvania and a player at Ursinus College. Donahue had been the coach at Cornell from September 2000 until April 6,2010. Cornell struggled early under Donahue, but he turned the program around. A March 1,2008 defeat of the Harvard Crimson gave Cornell the Ivy League championship for the first time since 1988, on March 6,2009, with Princetons loss to Columbia, Cornell clinched the Ivy League Championship for a second consecutive year. It was the first time in 50 years that any other than Penn or Princeton had won consecutive Ivy League titles in basketball. Exactly one year later on March 6,2010, Donahues Cornell team defeated the Brown Bears to clinch its third consecutive title and this guaranteed an automatic bid for Cornell in the 2010 NCAA basketball tournament, in which Cornell was given a 12-seed in the East region. There they fell to the 1-seed Kentucky Wildcats, ending their historic run, Donahue received the Clair Bee Coach of the Year Award for his accomplishments during the 2009–10 season. On April 7,2010, Boston College announced that Donahue had been hired as the coach of its basketball program. Donahue led the Eagles to the round of the NIT his first year. Donahues second year was successful, as the Eagles won only 9 games. Donahue led the Eagles to a 16-17 season in his third year, despite going 16-17, the Eagles lost to two top ten teams by one point. On February 19,2014, Donahue achieved what is considered his biggest win at BC by beating #1-ranked Syracuse on the road in the Carrier Dome, 62-59 in overtime. The upset was one of the few spots of Donahues fourth and final year. On March 18,2014, Boston College terminated Donahue and he compiled a 54–76 record in four seasons and failed to reach the NCAA tournament. On March 16,2015, Donahue was named the 20th head coach in Penn basketball history, Donahue served as an assistant coach for the Quakers from 1990 to 2000. According to Mike Krzyzewski, Duke University and USA National Team head coach, “Steve Donahue is a basketball coach
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List of Charlotte Hornets head coaches
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The Charlotte Hornets are an American professional basketball team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. They play in the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association, the Hornets began playing in 1988 as an expansion team, before relocating to New Orleans in 2002 and renaming themselves as the Pelicans in 2013. Charlotte was then awarded a new team named the Bobcats in 2004. The Hornets franchise have played their games at the Time Warner Cable Arena, formerly known as the Charlotte Bobcats Arena. The Hornets are owned by Michael Jordan, and Rich Cho is their general manager, there have been 10 head coaches for the Hornets franchise. The franchises first head coach was Dick Harter, who coached for two seasons, Harter, Bristow, Sam Vincent and Mike Dunlap have spent their entire NBA coaching careers with the Hornets franchise. Larry Brown is the coach of the franchise to have been elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach. Currently, the coach of the Hornets is Steve Clifford. Note, Statistics are correct through the end of the 2015–16 season, a A running total of the number of coaches of the Bobcats/Hornets. Thus, any coach who has two or more terms as head coach is only counted once. B Each year is linked to an article about that particular NBA season, C Paul Silas has a combined total of 424 regular season games coached, with a W–L record of 204–220, for a.481 winning percentage during his non-consecutive tenures in Charlotte. All-time leaders – as of the end of the 2015–16 NBA season
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The Hornets has been playing their home games in the Time Warner Cable Arena since 2005.
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Dave Cowens coached the Hornets for three seasons.
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Dave Cowens
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David William Cowens is an American retired professional basketball player and NBA head coach. At 69, he played the center and occasionally the power forward position and he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1991. After starring in school at Newport Catholic High in his hometown of Newport, Kentucky. He scored 1,479 points in 78 games at Florida State, at 19.0 points per game and he is the all-time Florida State leading rebounder with 1,340 rebounds. He holds the record for best seasonal rebound average. He once grabbed 31 rebounds against LSU in the 1968–69 season and he was named The Sporting News All-America second team in 1970. His number now hangs in the rafters of the Donald L. Tucker Center, during his rookie year, Cowens averaged 17.0 points per game and 15.0 rebounds per game. He was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team and shared the NBAs Rookie of the Year honors with Portlands Geoff Petrie and he also led the league in personal fouls that same year. In 1973, Cowens averaged 20.5 ppg and 16.2 rpg while helping the Celtics to a league best 68-14 record and he was chosen the NBA MVP as well as MVP of the All-Star Game that same season. Cowens and fellow Celtic Bill Russell both have the distinction of being named MVP of the league but not being included on the All-NBA First Team that year. Cowens retired in 1980, however, in 1982 he was coaxed out of retirement by the Milwaukee Bucks, the Celtics still held his rights at the time so the Bucks gave up Quinn Buckner as compensation. Cowens played for the Bucks during the 1982–83 season before retiring for good, during his NBA career, Cowens averaged 17.6 points and 13. He was a member of the Celtics 1974 and 1976 NBA Championship teams, Cowens playing credo was all-out intensity at both ends of the court, a style that never wavered during his 11-year NBA career. As a testament to his ability, Cowens is one of only four players to lead his team in all five major statistical categories for a season, points, rebounds, assists, blocks. He accomplished the feat in the 1977–78 season, on February 8,1981, the Celtics retired Cowens uniform number. Cowens uniform number had previously worn by Jim Loscutoff, who asked that the number not be retired so future Celtics could wear it. Cowens coached the Bay State Bombardiers of the Continental Basketball Association in 1984–85, in 1991, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. In 1990, Cowens, a former Democrat, ran as a Republican for Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, however, because he did not register by June 5,1989, he was unable to appear on the primary ballot
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Cowens in 1976
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Cowens in 2005
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Paul Silas
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Paul Theron Silas is an American retired professional basketball player and former NBA head coach. He is the father of current NBA assistant coach Stephen Silas, born in Prescott, Arkansas, Silas attended Creighton University, where he set an NCAA record for the most rebounds in three seasons and averaged 20.6 rebounds per game in 1963. In the NBA, Silas collected more than 10,000 points and 10,000 rebounds during his distinguished 16-year career and he was named to the All-NBA Defensive First Team twice, and to the All-NBA Defensive Second Team three times. He was head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers until March 21,2005 and he worked for ESPN, although in April 2007, he interviewed for the vacant head coaching position with the Charlotte Bobcats which was eventually filled by Sam Vincent. Upon the firing of Sam Vincent in April 2008, he stated that coaching the Bobcats would be a dream job, on December 22,2010, Silas was named interim head coach of the Bobcats, replacing the outgoing coach Larry Brown. On February 16,2011, the Bobcats removed his interim status
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Paul Silas in 1977 with the
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Bernie Bickerstaff
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Bernard Tyrone Bernie Bickerstaff is an American basketball coach. He previously worked as the coach for the NBAs Seattle SuperSonics, Denver Nuggets, Washington Bullets/Wizards, Charlotte Bobcats. He has also been an assistant for the Portland Trail Blazers, Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers and he has served in numerous other NBA front office positions, and has been a consultant for the Harlem Globetrotters. He was born in Benham, Kentucky, where his father and grandfather worked in the coal mines and he often had to endure open racism. He attended East Benham High School, where he was the point guard of the basketball team. After graduating in 1961, he moved to Cleveland where he had relatives, with the idea of joining the Army, the racial tension he experienced during his time playing there made him leave school early and head back to Cleveland to work in a steel mill. However, the working conditions prompted him to accept a second opportunity to play college basketball at the University of San Diego from 1964 to 1966. As a senior he was named captain and MVP, when the Toreros finished 17-11. He is a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity and his wife, Mrs. Bickerstaff, is a 4th grade teacher in Wykoff, New Jersey. After finishing his college eligibility, he was hired by his coach Phil Woolpert to serve as an assistant for the 1968–69 season. After three seasons at 25 years old, he was named the coach of the University of San Diego after Woolperts abrupt resignation. In 1972–1973 his team finished 19–9 and his overall record was 54–49. In 1973, Bickerstaff was hired as an assistant for the Washington Bullets by then coach K. C. Jones and was a part of the 1978 Bullets NBA Championship. He left the team after 12 seasons, when Lenny Wilkens hired him for the coaching position with the Seattle SuperSonics. Bickerstaff was the Denver Nuggets president and general manager from 1990 to 1997, in 1997, Wes Unseld hired him to coach the Bullets, making the playoffs for the first time since 1988 and becoming the leagues all-time 34th-winningest coach. After parting ways with the team in 1999, he had a stint with the International Basketball Leagues Saint Louis Swarm. In 2003, he was hired by Ed Tapscott to become the expansion Charlotte Bobcats first head coach, Bickerstaff was hired by the Los Angeles Lakers in 2012–13 as an assistant coach to Mike Brown. On November 9,2012, Bickerstaff was named head coach of the Lakers after Brown was fired
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Bickerstaff visits the
White House with the
Chicago Bulls in February 2009, before the Bulls' game against the
Washington Wizards.
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Larry Brown (basketball)
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Lawrence Harvey Larry Brown is an American basketball coach, who was most recently head mens basketball coach at Southern Methodist University. He is the coach in basketball history to win both an NCAA national championship and an NBA title. He also won an ABA championship as a player with the Oakland Oaks in the 1968–69 season, and he is also the only person ever to coach two NBA franchises in the same season. Before coaching, Brown played collegiately at the University of North Carolina and he has been a basketball coach since 1972. Brown was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach on September 27,2002, Brown is Jewish, and was born in Brooklyn, New York. A5 ft 9 in point guard, he attended Long Beach High School and then played at the University of North Carolina under legendary coaches Frank McGuire and Dean Smith. During that time Brown was selected for the 1964 Summer Olympics team, on which he played and with which he won a gold medal, Brown was named MVP of the ABAs first All-Star Game in 1968, and was named to the All-ABA Second Team the same year. Brown led the ABA in assists per game during the leagues first three seasons, and when he ended his career, Brown was the ABAs all-time assist leader. His total of 2,509 assists places him seventh on the ABAs career list, Browns first head coaching job was at Davidson College in North Carolina in 1969. Unfortunately for Wildcat fans, it would only last during the summer offseason, Brown moved on to the ABA and coached with the Carolina Cougars and then the Denver Nuggets, who later joined the NBA in 1976, for five and a half seasons from 1974 to 1979. He then moved on to coach for UCLA, leading his freshman-dominated 1979–80 team to the NCAA title game before falling to Louisville, 59–54. However, that appearance was vacated by the NCAA after two UCLA players were found to be ineligible—one of the few times a Final Four squad has had its record vacated. Brown was the coach for the NBAs New Jersey Nets for two years following that, from 1981 to 1983. Brown began his tenure at the University of Kansas, replacing the fired Ted Owens, who had overseen back-to-back losing seasons in 1981-82 and 1982-83. In the meantime Brown signed the most coveted high school player in the country, Danny Manning, to play for KU after signing his father, Ed Manning, perhaps Browns finest team at Kansas was the 1985-86 team. This squad put together a 35-4 record, the first 30-win season in KU history, in the 1987-88 season, Kansas got off to a mediocre 12–8 start, including 1–4 in the Big 8, and the end of the Jayhawks 55-game homecourt winning streak in Allen Fieldhouse. Kansas then proceeded to defeat 11th-seed Xavier, 14th-seed Murray State, and 7th-seed Vanderbilt before meeting rival Kansas State, KU upset the 4th-seeded Wildcats 71-58 in the Elite Eight to reach the Final Four in Kansas Citys Kemper Arena. Once there, Kansas upset the East Regions #2 seed Duke, 66-59, Manning, who scored 31 points and grabbed 18 rebounds in the final, was named Most Oustanding Player of the Tournament
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Brown in 2005 as coach of the
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Steve Clifford
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Steven Gerald Clifford is an American basketball coach who is currently the head coach for the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association. Born in Island Falls, Maine, Clifford grew up in Mattawamkeag, Maine, until the third grade and he played varsity basketball under Gerald Clifford, his father and head coach at North Country Union High School in Newport, Vermont. Clifford matriculated the University of Maine at Farmington, where he played basketball for four years. In his final two seasons, he was captain and was named Best Defensive Player. He graduated with a degree in special education, after graduating from college, Clifford became a teacher at Woodland High School in Maine. He also gained his first coaching experience at the school, serving as their coach for two seasons while leading them to two tournaments. He then served as an assistant coach at St. Anselm’s College, Fairfield University, Boston University, Clifford became an NBA assistant coach with the New York Knicks and Houston Rockets under Jeff Van Gundy and quickly developed a reputation as a defensive expert. He then was an assistant for Stan Van Gundy with the Orlando Magic and he considers both the Van Gundy brothers as mentors. He reached the NBA Playoffs in each of his five seasons with Orlando, Clifford then joined the Los Angeles Lakers in 2012–13 as an assistant. On May 29,2013, Clifford was hired by the Charlotte Bobcats to be their head coach and he led the Bobcats to the 2014 NBA Playoffs in his first year as head coach, during which he coached the Bobcats to a 43–39 record. The two years prior to him joining the Charlotte Bobcats only had a total of 28 wins. He was named Eastern Conference Coach of the Month for April 2014 after he led the Bobcats to a 7–1 record leading to the playoffs and he finished fourth in Coach of the Year voting in his first year. National Basketball Association portal Profile at NBA. com
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Clifford as
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Hugo Bezdek
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Hugo Francis Bezdek was a Czech American sports figure who played American football and was a coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He was the football coach at the University of Oregon, the University of Arkansas, Pennsylvania State University. Bezdek also coached the Mare Island Marines in the 1918 Rose Bowl, in addition, Bezdek coached basketball at Oregon and Penn State, coached baseball at Arkansas, Oregon and Penn State, and served as the manager of Major League Baseballs Pittsburgh Pirates. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1954, Bezdek was born near Prague, Bohemia. His fore fathers had been school-teachers, strong men and athletes and his family emigrated to America when he was 6 years old. Growing up, he enjoyed playing sports typical of the day, while he favored football, he also boxed, wrestled and played baseball. Arkansas athletic teams carried the name of Cardinals until the close of 1909 season, coach Bezdek referred to his team as a wild band of Razorbacks at a post-season rally following an unbeaten season. This nickname has been applied to Arkansas teams since that time, after five years at Arkansas, he returned to Oregon for six seasons. While coaching in Oregon, Bezdek also served as a scout for Major League Baseballs Pittsburgh Pirates and he managed the Pirates through 1919, compiling a 166–187 record. While managing the Pirates, Bezdek continued his coaching career. He was head coach there until 1929, amassing a 65–30–11 record that two undefeated seasons and an appearance in the 1923 Rose Bowl. Bezdek was noted for changing the Nittany Lions style of play, in 1937, Bezdek was hired by the Cleveland Rams as their first head coach after the team joined the National Football League. His career with the Rams was brief, ending three games into the 1938 season with an abysmal 1–13 record, nevertheless, Bezdek holds the distinction of being the only person to have served as both manager of a Major League Baseball team and head coach in the NFL. As a college coach, Bezdek tallied a career record of 127–58–16. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954. com
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Hugo Bezdek
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Bill Hayward
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William Louis Colonel Bill Hayward was a track and field coach for the University of Oregon for 44 years, and a track coach for six United States Olympic teams, from 1908 through 1932. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Haywards parents were Canadians and he grew up in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. An all-around athlete likened to Jim Thorpe, Hayward excelled at ice hockey, rowing, wrestling, boxing, Hayward was also renowned as one of Canadas fastest sprinters, running distances from 75 to 600 yards. His last name was originally spelled Heyward, he changed it later in life, Haywards first coaching job was as an assistant track coach first at Princeton University in New Jersey in 1898, and then out west at the University of California in Berkeley. In 1903, he took the job at Albany College. Oregon promptly hired him as their first permanent track coach the next year, as head coach of the Oregon Ducks track and field team, Hayward built Oregons track program into one of regional dominance and national prominence over his 44 years as coach. In all, he coached four track world record holders, six American record holders, notable Oregon athletes trained by Hayward include, sprinter Daniel Kelly, set records in the 100-yard dash at 9. In addition to his coaching duties, Hayward served as the athletic trainer for Oregons football team. He also coached Oregons mens basketball team from 1903 to 1913 and again in 1917-1918, compiling an overall record of 34-29. In 1912, Hayward was selected as a coach for the United States team at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden, prior to 1921, Haywards athletes trained at Kincaid Field, which was also the site of Oregons football field. The field was upgraded several times to accommodate the needs of the track and field program. It was two years before track and field facilities were installed at the new venue. The opening of Autzen Stadium for football in 1967 gave the track and field team exclusive use of Hayward Field, Hayward retired from coaching in the fall of 1947. He was hospitalized a few months later after being stricken with a heart ailment, Hayward was buried at Rest-Haven Cemetery in Eugene. John A. Warren succeeded Hayward for the 1947–48 Oregon school year, giving way to Bill Bowerman, Hayward was an inaugural inductee to both the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1980 and the University of Oregon Athletic Hall of Fame in 1992. In 2005, he was inducted into the U. S, track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame. The Bill Hayward Amateur Athlete of Year Award is given annually to the best amateur athlete in the state of Oregon. University of Oregon – Bill Hayward University of Oregon Athletics Hall of Fame – Bill Hayward Oregon Sports Hall of Fame and Museum – Bill Hayward Bill Hayward at Find a Grave
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Bill Hayward's Grave Marker at Rest-Haven Cemetery
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Charles A. Huntington
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Shy Huntington was a quarterback and later a multi-sport coach at the University of Oregon. Huntington began his career as a quarterback and safety at the University of Oregon. He was the player in Oregons Rose Bowl upset over heavily favored Pennsylvania in 1917, throwing a touchdown pass. Huntington took over as coach for the Ducks in 1918. He would coach the Ducks for six seasons and he finished with a 26–12–6 record. In 1919, he coached the Ducks to a Rose Bowl berth, they lost to Harvard, 7–6, on January 1,1920. He served as Oregons baseball coach in 1919 and 1920, and he coached the team for one season, 1919–20, achieving a record of eight wins. Charles A. Huntington at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Charles A. Huntington
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George Bohler
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George Mohn Doc Bohler was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He served as the football coach at Mississippi College, Auburn University. Bohler was born on February 8,1887 and he died in December 1968 in Silver Spring, Maryland. He was a brother of Fred Bohler and Roy Bohler, from 1928 to 1929, Bohler coached football and basketball at Auburn. He compiled a 3–11 record with the Auburn Tigers football team, from 1930 to 1933, Bohler coached football at Louisiana Tech, where he had greater success. He posted a 15–17 record in four seasons and his 1931 team went undefeated at 7–0. George Bohler at the College Football Data Warehouse George Bohler as College Basketball at Sports-Reference. com
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Bohler pictured in The 1929 Glomerata, Auburn yearbook
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John A. Warren
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John Albert Honest John Warren was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, baseball, and track. He served as the football coach the University of Oregon for one season in 1942, tallying a mark of 2–6. Warren was born in La Grande, Oregon and was raised on a farm near Helix and he played on the Oregon Ducks football team in 1926 and 1927. Warren coached high school basketball at Astoria High School, leading the Fishermen, in 1935, Warren was hired as the freshman basketball coach at the University of Oregon, where he coached Johansen and Anet who had enrolled at the school. Four years later, Johansen and Anet were the core of Oregons 1939 national championship team, Warren founded John Warren Sporting Goods after purchasing a local hardware store in 1951. The store went out of business shortly after his death in 1981, Warren died in Los Angeles on March 10,1981 after suffering a heart attack on February 26,1981 while on vacation in Mexico. University of Oregon Athletics Hall of Fame profile John Warren at the College Football Data Warehouse John Warren at College Basketball at Sports-Reference. com
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John Warren
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Dana Altman
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Dana Dean Altman is an American college basketball coach. He is the coach of the University of Oregon Ducks mens basketball team. Previously he was coach at Creighton, Kansas State and Marshall. Altman has won conference coach of the awards at each school he has coached. Dana Altman began playing basketball at Fairbury Junior College in Fairbury. He earned a degree in business administration there in 1978. He then received his degree in the same field at Eastern New Mexico University in 1980. In his first NCAA Division I head coaching position, Altman became the Head Mens Basketball Coach at Marshall University in Huntington, Altman left Marshall after only one season to replace his mentor, Lon Kruger, at Kansas State. Altman’s teams were 28–13 in games decided by six points or less and his 1992–93 club perpetuated a Kansas State tradition. Altman’s peers named him Big Eight Coach-of-the-Year in 1993 and he capped the season by upsetting No.6 Kansas 74–67 in the semifinals of the conference tournament. The following season, he made it two in a row over Kansas when he upset the No.1 ranked Jayhawks 68–64 in Lawrence and his 1993–94 squad finished the season with a 20–14 record and advanced to the NIT Final Four in New York City. Following the season, he accepted the coaching position at Creighton. During his time at Creighton, his athletes earned three All-American honors on the court and three other Academic All-America laurels in the classroom. Three players he coached at Creighton, Kyle Korver, Rodney Buford, Altman was a finalist for the Naismith College Coach of the Year and named the NABC District 12 and USBWA District VI Coach of the Year in 2002–03. Altman became the 14th head coach in Creighton history following the 1993–94 season after four years as the coach at Kansas State. In 1996–97, Altman’s team was 15–15 and followed with another jump to 18–10. On April 2,2007, Altman announced that he would become the coach for the Arkansas Razorbacks. Only one day later he had a change of heart and returned to Omaha and his team at Creighton, on February 5,2009, Altman won his 300th game as Creighton head coach
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