Word: jabbar
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...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 the situation...
Many athletes don't know when to retire. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Mary Decker-Slaney are two that come to mind...
...forbidding to start with and inaccessible for so long, consider that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar once looked for what he calls "positive role models" and found them in inanimate objects. "The Empire State Building," he says. "The redwoods." They represent an 86-in. man and his 24-year journey from New York City to California, nearly done. History's greatest basketball player is in his last season...
...Professional demands are different; they take most of the fun out of it," says Abdul-Jabbar, who embraced Islam during his second season with the Milwaukee Bucks. His new name meant "generous and powerful servant of Allah." He jilted a girlfriend and wed a woman selected by his mentor, Hamaas Abdul Khaalis. (The marriage ended after nine years and three children.) In 1973 seven members of Khaalis' family were murdered by Black Muslims in a Washington house bought by Kareem. Four years later, Khaalis participated in a siege of Government offices. He is now in a federal penitentiary...
...outplayed, outscored, outlasted and sometimes outscowled everybody, and now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 41, is approaching the end of his final season...