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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a Muslim, and Yisrael Lau, one of Israel's two chief rabbis, doesn't shoot hoops, but the two were eager to meet in Jerusalem this week. A family friend of Abdul-Jabbar's, Leonard ("Smitty") Smith, was among the first American soldiers to enter Buchenwald. He found Lau, then seven years old, and held him up to show people who lived in the nearby town of Weimar, saying, "Look! This is your enemy." Said Abdul-Jabbar: "I just wanted to complete the circle...
This heads-up approach got its impetus early in his hoop career when he witnessed the fleecing of fellow Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who lost millions to unscrupulous financial advisers in the 1980s. Johnson dumped his own advisers and started demanding monthly statements from his new ones. He realized that Magic Johnson was a brand name as well as his own, and that he wasn't benefiting from it. So he became the first active N.B.A. player to be a league licensee. "I just kept seeing all these people wearing my T shirts, and I was not getting a dime...
...maximize their marketability. We really need not look beyond Shaquille O'Neal. Here is a larger-than-life figure that has moved beyond the basketball court into acting and rapping and without being able to shoot free-throws or win a championship or MVP. I mean, when Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was starring in "Airplane!", he had some success under his belt...
...failed conversion, Barber pitched out to back Jabbar Craigwell, who then attempted a forward pass. But the Harvard defense swarmed him, and he launched a dying quail that didn't reach the line of scrimmage. That was key, for now Harvard needed only to get the ball back and maintain possession to seal the deal, as time was running out on the clock...
...Harvard defense also scored the game winner. Junior defensive linemen Tim Fleiszer and Brendan Bibro ganged up on Yale tailback Jabbar Craigwell in the end zone for a safety at the start of the fourth quarter...