Word: kareem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angeles Lakers:Last year's Lakers were held together by the mousse in Coach Pat Riley's hair. Magic Johnson was injured late in the season and never regained his brilliance in the post-season. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar looked like a living embodiement of Stepen Foster's "Old Folks at Home." Somehow, the Lakers repeated as NBA champion. Riley, after all, had guaranteed a second crown. But he made no such prediction this year...
Almost at the moment that Strange was getting up and down out of a sand trap, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was doing much the same thing under a basket, to extend both ordeals an extra day. "I don't object to a longer season," ! Abdul-Jabbar says reasonably. "But I don't think we should be competing with Wimbledon...
Great athletes deserve great names. We don't remember George Herman Ruth. We remember the Babe. We don't remember LEw Alcindor. We remember Kareem...
...depending on the type of racquet you want. Price for tennis racquet, ball and sneakers: $150-$300, depending on whether you chose Pro-Keds over Reebok super-insolated Andres Jarryd hard-surface court shoes. Price for basketball and sneakers: $40-$100, depending on whether you buy a Kareem Abdul-Jabbar galvanized rubber ball or a Greg Kite reinforced-brick ball...
...Crimson has not lost a match since February 6, 1982, when Princeton slipped past Harvard, 5-4, in Cambridge. The racquetmen's 58-game winning streak represents the fourth-longest streak in college history. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (then known as Lew Alcindor) and Bill Walton led UCLA to 88 straight victories between 1971-'74, and that record still stands...