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Universiade. 1979 Mexico City. Team competition. Jones Cup. 1984. Team competition. Lynette Woodard (born August 12, 1959) is an American basketball player and former head women's basketball coach at Winthrop University. Woodward played college basketball for the Kansas Jayhawks. She became the first female member of the Harlem Globetrotters ...
The Harlem Globetrotters are an American exhibition basketball team. They combine athleticism, theater, entertainment, and comedy in their style of play. Over the years, they have played more than 26,000 exhibition games in 124 countries and territories, mostly against deliberately ineffective opponents, such as the Washington Generals (1953–1995, since 2015) and the New York Nationals (1995 ...
Meadowlark Lemon. Meadow Lemon III[ 1] (April 25, 1932 – December 27, 2015), [ 2] known professionally as Meadowlark Lemon, was an American basketball player, actor, and Christian minister. For 22 years, he was known as the "Clown Prince" of the touring Harlem Globetrotters basketball team. [ 3] He was a 2003 inductee into the Naismith ...
As the Harlem Globetrotters nears its centennial anniversary, the trick-shot exhibition team is revving up for all-new bilingual TV programming. In celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month ...
The Harlem Globetrotters 2024 World Tour will swing through Illinois in January with a stop at the Peoria Civic Center in Peoria, Ill. Harlem Globetrotters 2024 World Tour tickets set to go on ...
William Louis Veeck Jr. ( / ˈvɛk / VECK; February 9, 1914 – January 2, 1986), also known as " Sport Shirt Bill " [ 1] and " Wild Bill ", [ 2] was an American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter. Veeck was at various times the owner of the Cleveland Indians, the St. Louis Browns, and the Chicago White Sox.
Larry Darnell Rivers (May 6, 1949 – April 29, 2023), also known as Gator Rivers, was an American basketball player, coach, business owner, and civil servant. He performed as a dribbler for the Harlem Globetrotters from 1973 to 1986, eventually taking over the main dribbler role from Curly Neal. As player-coach during his last year with the ...
Harlem Globetrotters. 1945–1946. Chicago Monarchs. Louis "Babe" Pressley (1916-1965) was an American professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball League for the Chicago Studebaker Flyers. [1] He was also a long-time player for the Harlem Globetrotters. [2] [3] Pressley signed with the Globetrotters in 1937 until 1958. [4]