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		<title>Our New Black Fives Photo Archive</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 05:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the world's leading collection of vintage African American basketball photographs and self-customizable photo products celebrating the historic Black Fives Era, prior to the racial integration of the N.B.A.]]></description>
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		<title>New BET Promo Features Black Fives Photo Archive</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 19:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Fives</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black Entertainment Television is featuring a selection of photographs, artifacts, and memorabilia from the Black Fives Photo Archive in a new Black History Month promo segment that is airing during February 2011.]]></description>
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		<title>NBA-Insider David Aldridge On BlackFives.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Fives</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you see what "NBA-Insider" David Aldridge wrote about me and BlackFives.com in his column on NBA.com?]]></description>
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		<title>These Nike Retros Are Hot Right Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Fives</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Rens have been in the news a lot lately, so that might explain why these Nike retros are hot right now.]]></description>
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		<title>My Adidas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Fives</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People often ask me (i.e., my kids) why I always wear Nike or Converse basketball sneakers, and I explain that it&#8217;s because I like to promote the Black Fives brand that those two great companies have represented so well through their licensed Black Fives products. But &#8230; those aren&#8217;t the only brands I&#8217;ve ever worn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special Basket Ball Pants</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Fives</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another look at some early &#8220;basket ball&#8221; pants. These ones are &#8220;special.&#8221; I mentioned this style before in an earlier post that includes a photo of Howard University&#8217;s 1911 varsity basketball team wearing joints similar to these. And you thought the N.B.A. dress code was rough?]]></description>
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		<title>Official Jock Straps, Basket Ball Picnics, And More!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Fives</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In George T. Hepbron&#8217;s &#8220;How To Play Basket Ball,&#8221; published in 1904 by the American Sports Publishing Co., then at 21 Warren Street in New York City, there&#8217;s a delightful segment about how one is to set up a &#8220;basket ball&#8221; court. In &#8220;The Grounds,&#8221; Hepbron, then the secretary of the Amateur Athletic Union Basket [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early Laced Basketballs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Fives</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that early basketballs had laces? They had to be unlaced, pumped up, tested, and re-laced repeatedly until the air pressure of the rubber bladder inside was just right. These balls evolved to include external air pump holes, but the laces remained until the 1930s, when laceless designs were first introduced. The version [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toilet Style Basketball Hoops; The Original Flush?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Fives</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever wonder where the basketball term &#8220;flush&#8221; came from? What if it came from these early bottomless basketball baskets? Antique urinal. After each made field goal, a referee had to stop play in order to pull the draw string that tipped the basket just enough for the ball to fall out. The ball would go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Play Basketball, 1904 (Lessons For 2008 Olympians)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Fives</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's the a portion of the front cover of the 1904 publication "How To Play Basket Ball," distributed by Spalding Sporting Goods.]]></description>
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		<title>Basket Ball Shoes, 1904 (Gum Bottom, E&#039;rrybody Got &#039;Em)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Fives</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pure gum bottom. E&#8217;rrybody got &#8216;em. In 1904, that is. That&#8217;s when A. G. Spalding Bros. was the Nike of its time. Whatever happened to Spalding? Maybe it was competition from the Converse Rubber Company, now Converse, which was formed in 1908. Or maybe it was because of the last line of this advertisement for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Fives</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of Schoolhouse Rock, from the other day, remember this ad? www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvqwsiVn3W0 The original version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=11N-BD1aBo0 The past and the present and the future &#8230;]]></description>
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