From Dreams to Globetrotters Glory
Rob Houston shares his boyhood basketball fantasies and late blossom as a sports writer. He recalls playing for a Globetrotters promotion in Salina, nervously shooting on 9,000 fans, hitting a free throw and scoring two points on the Generals’ losing streak, proving his coach wrong.
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NBA
Oscar Robertson
Jerry West
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Oscar Meyer
Jerry Lewis
Daffy Duck
Houston
Rockhurst
Belton
Pine
KABI
Ksad Radio
Abilene
Harlem Globetrotters
Salina’s
BiCentennial Center
Washington Generals
Globetrotters
Red Klotz
Generals
Geese Ausbey
Austey
Klotz
Robertson
West
Abdul-Jabbar
Norby earns Kansas invite to USA Junior National All State tourney
Ashley Norby, a Healy High senior, earned a place on a Kansas team at the USA Junior National All-State High School Basketball Tournament starting July 24 in Atlanta after regional tryouts in Wichita. She would represent Kansas for the chance to compete against top players, though she faces about $1,500 in travel and entry costs.
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Ashley Norby
Healy High School
Healy Recreation Commission
Norby
Southwest Missouri State
Claflin
Jackie Stiles
Portland Fire
Healy
Stiles
Kansas
Atlanta
Wichita
Nancy
Dave Norby
Nancy Norby
Margaret Taldo
Taldo
Blues take different paths to wins in doubleheader
The Finney County Blues hammered Bucklin 16-1 in five innings for game one, tallying 13 hits. They then erased a 3-0 deficit in game two, scoring four runs in the seventh to win 4-3 on an RBI by Lee Legion at Williams Stadium.
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Finney County Blues
Ballpark
Blues
Bucklin
Williams Stadium
Scott Stingley
Stingley
Royals edge Cubs to split series at Chicago
Kansas City takes 4 2 victory as errors and a wild throw spark their rally. Raul Ibanez drives in the go ahead run in the sixth, Mike Sweeney adds insurance with a ninth inning sac fly. Dan Reichert gets the win, Cogan and bullpen hold Cubs scoreless late.
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Chicago
Chicago Cubs
Kansas City Royals
Tonyei
Cubs
Cogan
Raul Ibanez
Mike Sweeney
Royals
Dan Reichert
Kansas City
Mark Quinn
Ricky Gutierrez
Joe Randa
RBI
Tapani
DeShields
Leslie Sparks West Team From Bench In All Star Game
Leslie tied and then broke her own WNBA All-Star scoring record with 20 points and added nine rebounds and three blocks as the Western Conference beat the East 80 72 in Orlando. She was named MVP for the second time after previously earning the honor in 1999.
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Orlando
Fla
Lisa Leslie
Leslie
Rougher Royal Lytham St Annes tests Open contenders
Five years after Tom Lehman’s major, Royal Lytham St Annes sleeps in greener rough with 196 bunkers, many deepened with sod walls, promising a tougher British Open. Tiger Woods saw the course bite last time and faces a changed, harsher layout this year.
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Royal Lytham & St. Annes
Woods
St. Andrews
Bobby Jones
Tiger Woods
Steve Williams
England
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Lee Norby
Arles
Finney County
Lee Legion
Graham K. Johnson
Matt Quint
Reichert
Stein
Bailey
Grim
Leslie Sparks
WNBA
Lehman
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