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«Pur disprezzando il popolo,  la dittatura ne desidera l’approvazione.»      – Ryszard Kapuscinski di CHRISTIAN GIORDANO © FINALI MONDIALI - Le partite della vita Rainbow Sports Books © Mai come in questo caso «la madre di tutte le partite» fu, in senso letterale, questione di vita e di morte. Non lo fu per i diretti protagonisti, ma per un intero popolo. «Colpevole», come altri sventurati fratelli latino-americani, di essere poco propenso a metabolizzare le buone maniere  imposte dalla ferocissima (e quale non lo è?) dittatura iniziata il 24 marzo 1976, in seguito al colpo di Stato con cui i militari avevano deposto la presidentessa Isabelíta Perón. Stime non ufficiali – ma forse anche proprio per questo più attendibili – parlano di migliaia di vittime nei primi venti mesi sotto il nuovo regime, che aveva ai vertici la triade che si componeva dei generali Jorge Rafael Videla , de facto il 42 °  presidente dell'Arge...

https://www.basketinside.com/nba/news-mercato-e-focus/rodman-armato-southeastern-oklahoma-state/ By  Ario Rossi  - 28 aprile 2020 Ad inizio carriera universitaria Rodman aveva pochissime offerte, rispetto alle sorelle che erano più talentuose: Debra (vista anche ad Ancona, portata dall’ agenzia di Federico Buffa  e Guido Bagatta) e Kim vinsero titoli statali tra Louisiana Tech e Stephen F. Austin, mentre Dennis giocava in un piccolo college. Si chiamava Cooke County (ora North Central Texas), ad un’ora di auto da Dallas, città dove abitava, nel quale teneva medie di 17.6 punti e 13.3 rimbalzi. Tuttavia giocò solamente il primo semestre a causa di un pessimo rendimento accademico. Fu qui che si inserì coach Lonn Reisman, assistente a Southeastern Oklahoma State, college iscritto alla NAIA con sede a Durant, a circa due ore di auto da Dallas. “Era grezzo, ma super atletico con un motore che non avevo mai visto fino ad allora. Era instancabile”, ha detto Reisman  al NY ...

https://eu.thenewsstar.com/story/sports/college/louisiana-tech/2017/01/13/lady-techsters-1982/96511652/ SEAN ISABELLA | sisabella@thenewsstar.com RUSTON — There was a time, almost four decades ago, when Louisiana Tech ruled the world of women’s college basketball. The program, led by future Hall of Famers and those considered pioneers of the game, helped revolutionize women’s basketball into the product it would later become and still is in the present day. The Lady Techsters were that good, and it was evident to everyone. “I remember Pat (Summitt) saying Louisiana Tech should be ranked one and two (in the national polls) and then the rest of it start from there,” said Sonja Hogg, the Hall of Fame coach who helped found the program in 1974 with former Tech president F. J. Taylor. “We had the best two teams in America.” By the 1980s, business was booming for the Techsters. During that decade, Tech compiled a 320-29 record, an average of 32 wins a season. There were three national champi...

https://latechsports.com/news/2018/1/29/former_latechwbb_star_rodman_to_enter_hall_of_fame_.aspx Jan. 29, 2018 RUSTON – Former Louisiana Tech Lady Techster great Debra Rodman is one of 14 individuals that will be inducted into the Texas Black Sports Hall of Fame on Feb. 23 in Dallas, Texas. Rodman lettered for the Lady Techsters from 1980 through 1984, leading the program to an overall mark of 130-6, four Final Fours and two national titles (1981, 1982). During her playing days in Ruston, Rodman scored 1,306 points and grabbed 1,200 rebounds while shooting 54 percent from the field. She ranks No. 28 all-time in total points and No. 2 all-time in total rebounds in Lady Techster history. Rodman prepped at South Oak Cliff High School in Texas where she played for current Texas A&M head coach and former Louisiana Tech assistant coach Gary Blair. She only played one year of basketball in high school, averaging 17 points and 12 rebounds a game.

https://www.nba.com/pistons/features/truebluepistons_110711.html Pistons.com May 31, 20123:49 PM EDT Six summers before Joe Dumars and Terry Porter would share the same court as key figures for their teams in the 1990 NBA Finals, the two small-college stars shared a van ride up State Road 37 from Bloomington, Ind., to Indianapolis. There were four other pretty fair basketball players in the van Bobby Knight had graciously arranged for the last cuts from the 1984 U.S. Olympic team that would romp to the gold medal in Los Angeles, the field greatly weakened by the Soviet bloc boycott: Charles Barkley, Karl Malone, John Stockton and A.C. Green. Twenty-two years later, Barkley and Dumars returned to Indianapolis, site of the 2006 Final Four, to be introduced as the stars of that year’s Hall of Fame class. I was there, covering that Final Four, when Dumars reminisced about that van ride. In a hotel ballroom, Dumars – who by that point had won two NBA titles as a player and one as the archit...

http://www.nysportsjournalism.com/dumars-joins-ise-basketball-81/2017/8/1/joe-dumars-brings-bad-boy-nba-hall-of-fame-attitude-resume-t.html Tuesday, August 1, 2017 at 04:33PM By Barry Janoff He might bring a "Bad Boy" attitude to his new job, but he certainly will be arriving with years of player and executive experience and respectability. Independent Sports & Entertainment Worldwide , a leading integrated sports, media, entertainment and management company, has signed Joe Dumars, basketball Hall of Fame player and former NBA Executive of the Year, as president of ISE Basketball. Dumars will oversee all aspects of the basketball representation business with a focus on "growth and providing clients best in class service at every stage of their career both on and off the court." Financial terms were not disclosed. "Joe’s arrival at ISE marks the tone for the future of our basketball practice and business," Hank Ratner, ISE president and CEO, said in a ...

https://www.sunjournal.com/2004/06/11/dumars-good-fit/ Posted June 11, 2004 AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) – After the Detroit Pistons drafted Joe Dumars in 1985, he was picked up at the airport by the team’s trainer. Dumars, a skinny, unknown shooting guard out of McNeese State, was dropped off at a hotel in suburban Detroit and has been a fixture in the city ever since. First, as a six-time All-Star during a 14-year career – the longest any player has been with the Pistons. Now, Dumars is in his fourth season as the president of basketball operations in the only NBA home he’s had. Fifteen years after the MVP of the NBA Finals led Detroit over Los Angeles, Dumars has built a team good enough to face the star-studded Lakers in the NBA Finals. Four years to the day that Dumars started running the Pistons, they stunned the Lakers with a 87-75 victory in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. “It’s the ultimate thrill for me to be able to say I played for one team and worked for one team, especially these...

https://2kleague.nba.com/news/life-on-the-sidelines-tommy-abdenour-transitions-from-g-league-to-nba-2k-coach/ Jonathan Raber  July 26, 2018 Basketball runs in the blood of the Abdenour family. For Tommy Abdenour, his position as head coach of Warriors Gaming Squad can be traced back to his youth. It was during those indelible years that his love of the game was fostered, coincidentally enough because of the Warriors organization. His father, Tom Abdenour, is best known in NBA circles as the longtime head athletic trainer of the Warriors, a role he held for 24 years. Tom’s brother, Mike Abdenour, spent over three decades as an athletic trainer with the Detroit Pistons before transitioning to the front office. Together they hold the distinction of being the first brothers to serve as athletic trainers in professional sports. Growing up with a father and uncle whose lives revolved around the NBA naturally steered Tommy Abdenour towards basketball. “When it’s in your family with that D...

https://sport.sky.it/nba/2023/01/17/nba-detroit-chicago-paris-game-2023-storia#00 Le due franchigie nella loro storia si sono affrontate 35 volte ai playoff, con 19 vittorie dei Pistons e 16 dei Bulls, ma è soprattutto a cavallo tra la fine degli anni '80 e l'inizio dei '90 che la rivalità tra Detroit e Chicago è diventata l'attrazione principale dell'intera lega. Isiah Thomas contro Michael Jordan, Joe Dumars contro Scottie Pippen e poi ancora un giovane Rodman (al tempo a Detroit) a guidare i "Bad Boys" contro Horace Grant e i Bulls A CAVALLO TRA GLI ANNI '80 & '90  La bellezza di 22 sfide di playoff disputate nel giro di quattro anni, quattro serie consecutive dal 1988 al 1991 che hanno contribuito a costruire tanto la leggenda dei "Bad Boys" di Detroit che quella degli "Invinci-Bulls" di Chicago. Ecco perché la sfida tra Pistons e Bulls che va in scena nella capitale francese per l'NBA Paris Game 2023 è qualcosa di ...