Word: abdul-jabbar
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...better promotions. The group, which numbers 250 members, went on strike during the 1984 World Championships in California's Hermosa Beach to protest conditions. Since then, A.V.P. organizer Leonard Armato, a former player and an attorney with a Los Angeles law firm that represents such athletes as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Ronnie Lott of the San Francisco 49ers, has helped the players win control of tournament profits, concession sales, TV contracts and endorsement fees...
Doug Moe, the flamboyant coach of the Denver Nuggets, got to thinking a few weeks ago that pro basketball shouldn't let Kareem Abdul-Jabbar slip into retirement without somebody standing up and saying what a "jerk" the Laker center had been "his whole life." Abdul-Jabbar let it go, but the obvious rejoinder, if he remembered the headlines of 1961, was to say at least he never accepted carfare from a fixer for listening to the pitch. That was Moe's only confessed involvement in a point-shaving mess at the University of North Carolina, but it was enough...
...struggle is not linear. It's dynamic and ever changing. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis struggled for the legitimacy of black athletic talent. Later, Jackie Robinson, Bill Russell and others struggled for access. In the late '60s, athletes like Muhammad Ali, Tommie Smith, John Carlos, Arthur Ashe and Kareem ((Abdul-Jabbar)) fought for recognition of the dignity of the black athlete. Now we're in the struggle for power, and that's the most difficult of all. If we can broaden democratic participation in sports, then there is at least the possibility that we can devise credible strategies for approaching...
...agreed: "that they must change their names." This process of shucking off so-called slave names, commonly in favor of names with an African or Islamic flavor, persists. Malcolm Little became Malcolm X and then Malik al-Shabazz. Cassius Clay transformed himself into Muhammad Ali. Lew Alcindor became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael changed his name to Kwame Ture. The writer LeRoi Jones converted to Amiri Baraka...
Many athletes don't know when to retire. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Mary Decker-Slaney are two that come to mind...