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Hero: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar...
...sports measurable by clocks and rulers, no one ever questions the superiority of modern athletes. Baby girl swimmers have left Johnny | Weissmuller in their backwash. An old pivot man like George Mikan would stand up against Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about as well as the Four Horsemen would pull their pony weight in a National Football League backfield. Because baseball players appear not to change so much, they present their fans a wonderful illusion of constant values, like .300 batting averages. By this week, the fans should resume arguing over Pete Rose and Ty Cobb, surer than ever that human beings...
...players, and signs on the beer stands caution: SOBRIETY IS NO ACCIDENT. Neither is the Celtics' practical possession of this sport. Boston aside, no team has repeated an N.B.A. championship in over 30 seasons. Even the Celtics have not done it since 1969, the year that Lakers Center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar left UCLA. Now Jabbar leads the league in tenure and tonsure, but no longer rebounding. And despite his 109-102 rebound in Game 2, the Celtics were having an unusually hard time casting themselves as underdogs in pursuit of a second straight title, a 16th overall...
Named to the A.B.A. All-Rookie team in St. Louis during the last premerger year, Carr next moved to Detroit. No Piston was more aptly surnamed, and none had a finer sense of mischief. Tweaking a fashion of the times, Carr announced that he was changing his name to Abdul Automobile. But after three years of only personal prosperity, he felt somberly incomplete. "I was second or third in minutes played, averaging 18 or 19 points a game. Statistically everything was right. But I wanted to be a winner. I went free agent and, though New York offered the most...
Since Fletch writes his column under yet another pseudonym and repeatedly states his loathing for his first name, a shrink might assume that he has something of an identity problem. And since he likes to visualize himself sporting an Afro haircut and helping Kareem Abdul-Jabbar lead the Lakers to N.B.A. glory, the evidence seems to support that theory. But a couch, unless it is shared by a blond as attractive as Dana Wheeler-Nicholson -- playing a distressed damsel he rescues -- is the last place any sensible person would want to find him languishing. Much better for himself...