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Bill Russell at the March on Washington 8/28/1963. USIA, NARA ID 542073.
#RIP BILL RUSSELL
By Miriam Kleiman, Public Affairs
President Obama gets a sneak peek of the new Bill Russell statue & a hug from the @celtics great, 11/4/2013. Obama Library. NARA ID 222096181.
Excerpt from President Clinton's video tribute to Bill Russell, 5/11/1999, Clinton Library, NARA ID 134759190.
"Yours is a tradition of hard work, of teamwork, of dedication, a tradition of ``Celtics pride''... [A]winning tradition carried forth again and again down through the years by some of the greatest heroes in basketball history: Cousey, Sharman, Ramsey, Russell, Sam and Casey Jones, Heinsohn, Havlicek, Cowens, and White." Excerpt from President Reagan's remarks on meeting the Celtics, NBA World Champs 6/13/1984. Reagan Library.
Boston Celtics meet with JFK in the Oval Office, 1/31/1963, JFK Library.
Russell missed this visit! Reportedly he overslept thinking it was just a White House tour.
COMING SOON: ALL AMERICAN - THE POWER OF SPORTS
National Archives Museum in DC, 9/16/2022 - 1/7/2024
More online:
Gov and Basketball, The Text Record
Spinning the Globe: The History and Legacy of the Harlem Globetrotters, NARA Public Program
#ripbillrussell#nba#blm#black history#african american history#sports legends#march on washington#obama#obama library#celtics#ronald reagan#reagan library#basketball#boston celtics#representation matters#marchonwashington
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Timely Fashion Advisory:
Did you know that sweatpants were invented just around a decade after the Titanic sank?
Émile Camuset created them in the early 1920’s for his sports equipment company, the Le Coq Sportif. By the 1932 Olympic Games, sweatpants were everywhere!
Worn by icons like Eddie Tolan, legendary track and field sprinter and the first Black athlete to win two Olympic gold medals:
And the unstoppable Babe Didrikson Zaharias, a sporting polymath who excelled at track and field events, basketball, baseball and golf. She also took home two gold medals in 1932.
Sweatpants’ popularity exploded during the 1960’s fitness boom, and they’ve lived rent free in our closets and hearts ever since.
A hundred years after their invention, let’s celebrate our humble sweatpants!
Iconic. Comfortable. Highlighting assets while covering a multitude of sins.
V/r,
Agent Kay
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Great Olympic moments.
Two time Olympian David Lekuta Rudisha turned 35 at the tail end of last year. Arguably the greatest 800m runner of all time and the man who ran 3 of the top ten fastest times in the 800m, Rudisha is still the world record holder eleven years on from his spellbinding performance at the 2012 Olympics.
Rudisha whose father was also an Olympian and won silver at the 1968 Mexico Olympics, is in a class all by himself as the only man in the history of the 800m to have broken the 1 minute and 41 second barrier.
And while it's entirely possible that another Rudisha might be born someday and break the great man's WR, it's safe to say that 1:40.91 as an Olympic Record in the 800m may never be broken in this or any other lifetime.
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Brooks Robinson, Orioles third baseman with 16 Gold Gloves, has died. He was 86
Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson, whose deft glovework and folksy manner made him one of the most beloved and accomplished athletes in Baltimore history, has died. He was 86.
The Orioles announced his death in a joint statement with Robinson's family Tuesday. The statement did not say how Robinson died.
#Brooks Robinson#Rest in peace#Orioles#Baseball#Baseball legends#Sports legends#Baseball Hall Of Fame#Sports celebrity#Celebs#Celebrities#Celebrity death#Tw celebrity death
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4 Great Quotes From 2 Great Sports Legends ~ https://read.cash/@cmoneyspinner/4-great-quotes-from-2-great-sports-legends-0409e456 ... Sharing four (4) excellent, inspirational, and motivational life quotes from two (2) incomparable sports legends: Bruce Lee (1940 – 1973) AND Muhammad Ali (1942 – 2016). They may be gone but their words live on.
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Nicole Simpson would be 64 years old if Simpson hadn't murdered her.
Fuck mourning OJ Simpson. He was a football player. Nicole was a young woman with children who tried to get away.
Here come the journalists weighing in about OJ Simpson's "complicated history" -- it's not complicated. He killed his wife because she wouldn't take his abuse.
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T1 are your 2023 League of Legends World Champions!
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1970 Dodge HEMI Challenger R/T SE “Black Ghost”
Mecum Auctions
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“As president of the Scott Moir fan club, I could go on about his innate talent, musicality, passion, drive, commitment, work ethic. Truly, the list is so long cause he is the best in every way.”
“From her ability to move and create brilliant choreography to her athleticism and near perfect technique, she’s the greatest skater I’ve ever seen. Her brilliance is evident in everything she does and she is ruthlessly competitive. Those are some of my favourite traits but they don’t come close to the fire that lit within me when we skated together. Our eyes would meet on the ice and it would take us to another world.”
— Tessa and Scott on each other, Canadian Sports Hall of Fame 2023
#THE BEST PARTNERSHIP ❤️#LEGENDS ✨#Tessa And Scott#Virtue And Moir#Virtue Moir#Tessa Virtue#Scott Moir#Canada#Hall Of Fame#Figure Skating#Ice Skating#Ice Dance#Skating#Dance#Sport#Art#Love#Life#fskateedit#fsskateedit
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#decade#history#1980s#eighties#80s#1980s horror#1980s nostalgia#1980s fashion#1980s movies#art#sports#film#life#good#bad#everything#everything everywhere all at once#indeedgoodman#legend#fyp#luxury#fashion#design#high fashion#model
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Left to right; Faith Kipyegon, Mondo, and the future Mrs Mondo presumably.
Not since Henry Rono broke 4 world records in his 1978 heyday as a student at Washington State University has a Kenyan athlete broken multiple athletics records in one year. In fact, to date Rono's 1976 time of 28:07mins remains the American collegiate record for the 10k cross-country.
But this year, two time Olympic gold medalist and three times World Champion Faith Kipyegon revived Rono's feats by breaking the 1500m, the mile, and the 5000m world records to be nominated for Female Athlete of 2023. Faith's 5000m WR was subsequently broken by Ethiopia's Gudaf Tsegay, but at the beginning of 2024 Faith still holds the 1500m and mile world records.
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TIME 2003 / TIME 2022
Serena Williams, the Greatest of All Time
#serena williams#time magazine#goat#greatest of all time#time#tennis#sports#magazine cover#serena#magazine covers#beauty#black women#black women in sports#influential#the greatest of all time#legend#taweetie posts
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Wayne Rainey /Eddie Lawson /Christian Sarron /Kevin Schwantz /Wayne Gardner
#motorcycle#wayne rainey#eddie lawson#christian sarron#kevin schwantz#wayne gardner#motolegends#wgp#sport bike#racing#motorsports#the grid#ride hard or go home#built for speed#classic motorcycle#pure legends#experience speed#moto love#lifestyle
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