Category Archives: Wilt Chamberlain
BASKETBALL AND FOOTBALL – On Sale
In a rousing trip through the worlds of Basketball and Football, George Thomas Clark explores the professional basketball league in Mexico, the Herculean talents of Wilt Chamberlain, the difficulties and humor of attempting to play basketball in middle age, and observes that coaching at Caltech can be more painful than studying all night for a […]
Also posted in Basketball, Basketball and Football, Football, George Thomas Clark, Kobe Bryant, O.J. Simpson
Jerry West Watches the Lakers
At the Lakers third game this season, against the Spurs, I turned in my courtside seat, pulled out my mini-binoculars and spotted Jerry West standing in a luxury box. I hustled upstairs, twice used a counterfeit pass to trick security guards, and reached the hallowed door on which I knocked. A starlet opened up, and […]
“Basketball and Football” is Published
In a rousing trip through the worlds of Basketball and Football, George Thomas Clark explores the professional basketball league in Mexico, the Herculean talents of Wilt Chamberlain, the difficulties and humor of attempting to play basketball in middle age, and observes that coaching at Caltech can be more painful than studying all night for a […]
Mr. Clutch
This story is in the collection “Basketball and Football”
Also posted in Basketball, Bill Russell, Jerry West, Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Lebron James
The Underdog
This story is in the collection “Basketball and Football”
Also posted in Basketball, Bill Russell, Cleveland, Dan Gilbert, Jerry West, Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Lebron James, Oakland, Stephen Curry
Wilt Calls LeBron
This story is in the collection “Basketball and Football”
Also posted in Basketball, Bill Russell, Elgin Baylor, Jerry West, John Havlicek, Kevin Love, Kyrie Irving, Lebron James
The Dempsey Obsession
This story is from the collection “Death in the Ring”
Also posted in Boxing, Earnie Shavers, Eldridge Cleaver, Floyd Patterson, Gene Tunney, George Foreman, Jack Dempsey, Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Muhammad Ali, Red Grange, Sonny Liston
Wilt Would’ve Been Seventy
This story is in the collection “Basketball and Football”
Also posted in Basketball, Bill Russell, Los Angeles Lakers, Sacramento
