In professional sports, much emphasis is placed on someone’s ethnic nationality if they are the first of their race or ethnicity to achieve success. I give you some names in that regard. Jackie Robinson. Roberto Clemente. Yao Ming. Hideo Nomo. They broke through in their sports and became legends. Seiya Ando hopes to follow in…
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No nights off…
“No Nights Off” is the mantra of the 2014-15 National Basketball League of Canada basketball season. From November to about mid-April, it’s also my mantra. For the fourth consecutive year, I’ll take care of maintaining statistics and player relations with the NBL. This means I have to make sure that every player on the league’s…
Read MoreSponnie’s on the phone…
I have a long history with minor league basketball; it started with the Albany Patroons and the Continental Basketball Association; it evolved to a five-year stint with the Premier Basketball League, and continues today as the National Basketball League of Canada commences its fourth campaign. During that time, I’ve had the pleasure of working with…
Read MoreDonald Sterling, Larry Johnson and Moose Lewis
As you may have heard, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has been banned for life from the NBA for his tape-recorded racist and bigoted comments. Well, if it wasn’t just because of those tape-recorded comments with his mistress, it also had to do with his policies both on and off the court – everything…
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High-waters and Stringbean waistbands
I remember, back in elementary school days, there would always be at least one kid whose pantlegs didn’t reach all the way down to his shoes. They might stop at the tops of his socks, thus causing the phenomenon derisively known as “high-waters.” “When’s the flood coming, Charlie?” they’d ask me. Oh yeah, I should…
Read MoreCavell Johnson’s winning dunk
My first true sports photography occurred when I was the Albany Patroons’ team photographer. And from time to time, I would create stitch shots of various dunks – for me, a “stitch shot” meant that I could superimpose three or more images in a row of a player going to the hoop and slamming the…
Read MoreAlbany Patroon versus Albany Patroon tonight
Yes, I am a die-hard fan of the Albany Patroons, that star-crossed basketball team that came to our area in 1982, won championships in 1984 and 1988, left in 1993, returned in 2005, and left again in 2009. It was a team that sent several legendary coaches to the NBA (Phil Jackson, George Karl, Bill…
Read MoreNBL Canada podcast, with guest star Chuck Miller
I haven’t written about it as much in my blog, but those of you who read my blog with any amount of regularity know that I am a devotee of independent and minor league professional basketball. I started with the Albany Patroons way back in the day, and then moved to working with the Premier…
Read MoreWarning: Do not use Nike Air Jordans to beat someone to a pulp
The classic example of chutzpah is the story of a man who killed both his parents and, upon his arrest, begged for mercy from the court because he’s now an orphan. Well, we may now have a brand new example of chutzpah, thanks to a man named Sirgiorgiro Clardy. The happy-looking man you see here…
Read MoreMeeting Walt Frazier for the first time
Today, Walt Frazier will be signing autographs at the new Ollie’s Discount Warehouse in Crossgates Commons. That’s cool. Especially since Walt Frazier was the first professional basketball player I ever met in person. EVER. True story. It’s the spring of 1980, and I was a high school student at the Street Academy of Albany. I…
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