The Black Fives Community Fund benefits social, educational, cultural, and civic improvement in neighborhoods where teams of the Black Fives Era once played.
In 1961, during a summer job in Vienna, Austria, my father took pivotal advice from Father Theodore Hesburgh, now President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame.
Using the pre-NBA history of African American basketball teams (1904-1950) to engage, teach, connect, and inspire people today.
First POTUS-elect With Game The Chicago Tribune has a new (old) take on Obama in Another milestone: Obama 1st president who’s got game: In Barack Obama, Americans have truly made history. We have elected to the White House, for the first time, a basketball player. The nation has had its bowlers-in-chief, its baseball first-pitch throwers [...]
I traveled to Chicago the other day and as my flight was landing at Midway Airport, I looked out my window and saw the campaign plane of Senator Barack Obama, parked near one of the private hangars. A crowd of people were gathered around the access stairs. I call it “Air Force On The One,” [...]
How would you reply if your 7-year-old asked you that question? Imagining. My answer: “Yes you are, son!” The Copenhagen Interpretation says so. The Law of Attraction says so. John Lennon said so. René Descartes seemed to say so, when he proclaimed, “Cogito ergo sum,” translated to mean, “I think, therefore I am.” Somewhat disappointingly, [...]
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