Curly was also featured in several of the Globetrotters' TV specials ... including "The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island" and "The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Special" ... as well as 'Scooby-Doo.
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McLaurin hung out with the Harlem Globetrotters in Washington, D.C. this week, where she received her very own #107 Globetrotters jersey.
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But an offer soon materialized with the Globetrotters, and Neal eventually succeeded Marques Haynes, a 1992 inductee into the Basketball Hall of Fame, as the Globetrotters' ball-handling sensation.
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The results will surprise some, though perhaps not regular globetrotters.
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The country's most frequent globetrotters are found in San Francisco.
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It's a great resource for experienced or novice globetrotters alike.
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Think of them as the Harlem Globetrotters of city pools.
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The Flying Fathers were like the Harlem Globetrotters on skates.
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Buckets Blakes is a player for the Harlem Globetrotters and regularly speaks at elementary schools and youth community centers about "The ABCs of Bullying Prevention," a program designed by the Globetrotters in coordination with NCSV.
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Even the GOAT can't resist the Harlem Globetrotters … well, a goat.
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Nicknamed "Curly" upon joining the Globetrotters in a humorous nod to his shaved head, Neal played in more than 21983,22008 exhibition games for the Globetrotters from 212 to 1985, mostly against the Washington Generals, their hapless foils.
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He also played four seasons with the Harlem Globetrotters in the 1960s.
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Jokes about gin-swilling, oikophobe globetrotters in linen suits will spill forth.
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Before my time, everybody thought of black players as the Harlem Globetrotters.
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The Harlem Globetrotters visited in 2013; Dennis Rodman has made multiple trips.
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By talking to these veteran globetrotters, we unearthed 11 secrets about flying.
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Well, now you have ... Harlem Globetrotters star Thunder Law took to Minute Maid Park with a basketball and a hoop to help promote the Globetrotters' upcoming games in Texas this month ... and what happened next was pretty crazy.
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At the height of the Globetrotters' popularity in the 1970s, with Neal's supreme ball-handling skills and long-distance shooting as prime attractions, they inspired multiple animated TV series, including "Scooby-Doo Meets the Harlem Globetrotters" in 1972.
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He joined three members of the Harlem Globetrotters for a game in Pyongyang.
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It's like watching the Harlem Globetrotters slamdunk on patients at a children's hospital.
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He continued to serve as a Globetrotters ambassador long after he stopped playing.
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The Globetrotters sent me a plane ticket and gave me room and board.
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If they channel the Harlem Globetrotters, their flamboyance is rooted in bedrock principles.
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Beyond saving money while traveling, some savvy globetrotters have learned how to earn it.
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Vera and Gavin's mature palates are no surprise, considering they are already seasoned globetrotters.
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The Harlem Globetrotters, which completed the HIGHEST DUNK EVER in honor of the holiday!!
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Frequent globetrotters know that travel isn't always as seamless as social media likes to portray.
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Since 22000 the globetrotters' profits have increased by 12%, compared with 30% for the homebodies.
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The Harlem Globetrotters did it again -- hitting an insane trick shot from a FLYING AIRPLANE!!!
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A tour of the Far East with the Harlem Globetrotters was even on the table.
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Honorary member of the Harlem Globetrotters; possibly still just a regular member of the NRA.
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The Globetrotters claim the shot is a world record -- the highest shot from an aircraft ever!
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We've rounded up seven snap-happy globetrotters that have mastered the art of the#baecation photo.
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That's not exactly on par with the Harlem Globetrotters, but still, ya gotta admire that patience!
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The Harlem Globetrotters are here to stay, Howard Smith, the team's president, told CNBC on Wednesday.
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Both took their daughters to see the Ice Capades and Harlem Globetrotters, albeit 30 years apart.
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Many of the best black players instead played for touring teams like the Rens and Globetrotters.
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McLaurin had another star-studded birthday last year, WJLA reported, when she met the Harlem Globetrotters.
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There were also annual visits by the Harlem Globetrotters, as well as boxing matches and other diversions.
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In honor of her milestone, the Globetrotters are donating 108 tickets to their performances to disadvantaged children.
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The Globetrotters were founded in Chicago in 1926 and didn't play a game in Harlem until 1968.
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When she turned 107, she celebrated with the Harlem Globetrotters and joined them again the following year.
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Thankfully for globetrotters and e-shoppers in the rich world, that has changed in the past decade.
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The Globetrotters had several stars, among them Meadowlark Lemon, Marques Haynes, Goose Tatum and, briefly, Wilt Chamberlain.
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We get in a taxi and head to our hostel, Globetrotters International, to check-in ($190, J. pays).
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The Harlem Globetrotters have recruited a new superstar hooper to their roster -- and she's still in high school!!
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The game that the Warriors play is a cross between the Harlem Globetrotters and Hickory High on speed.
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The Harlem Globetrotters got a game Thursday at MSG, the first of 7 in NYC to close out 2018.
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The pair was last photographed with their kids at a Harlem Globetrotters game in Los Angeles in February 2017.
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Bowen and Phillips were last photographed with their children at a Harlem Globetrotters game in L.A. in February 2017.
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The Harlem Globetrotters, the U.S. stunt basketball team, generally fields a number of record-setters, or at least attempters.
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Best video of the day ... 107-year-old Virginia McLaurin bustin' out some HOOP TRICKS with the Harlem Globetrotters!!!
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He left college and, through a basketball coach in Detroit, learned of a tryout in Chicago for the Globetrotters.
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So it was a newly respected level of black players — that we were not Globetrotters but very good players.
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It's kind of the like ... the best comparison between eSports and Let's Play is, like, the Harlem Globetrotters of eSports.
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There goes that man again ... This time, the Harlem Globetrotters are hitting shots while zooming around on a ZIP LINE!!!!
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Bowen and Phillips was last photographed with their children at a Harlem Globetrotters game in Los Angeles in February 2017.
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The Globetrotters have been credited with integrating the N.B.A. by beating the all-white Minneapolis Lakers in 1948 and 1949.
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That's what we have here with the Harlem Globetrotters (although it seems like Dude Perfect might have done this too).
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Back in 2015, Mo'ne was drafted by the Harlem Globetrotters after COOKIN' Kevin Hart in a celebrity basketball game. Congrats!!
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The game's star, Ant Atkinson, remains mostly unknown, though his heroics led him to a job with the Harlem Globetrotters.
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He said it was Bobby Milton, the Globetrotters' coach when Neal arrived, who decided, "We're going to call you Curly."
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Mr. Kim, a longtime basketball fan, sat with Mr. Rodman to watch an exhibition game that featured three Harlem Globetrotters.
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The Globetrotters made World Trick Shot Day an official holiday 4 years ago, so obviously they had to go big.
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Despite their name, the Globetrotters were founded in Chicago in 1926 and didn't play a game in Harlem until 1968.
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The next year, the Globetrotters' Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton became the first black player to sign a contract with the league.
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When the Harlem Globetrotters are not on the roof, what U.S. basketball team regularly plays at Oracle Arena in Oakland, California?
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The Harlem Globetrotters are a roundabout group of playground basketball legends who rode on-court, circus-like tricks to international fame.
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The next year, the Globetrotters' Nat Clifton, called Sweetwater, became the first black player to sign a contract with the league.
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After showing off her gymnastics prowess in the clip, Biles got suited up in the Globetrotters' signature red and blue jersey.
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Click here to view original GIFLeave it to the Harlem Globetrotters to come up with new ways to nail trick shots.
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Jewel and boyfriend Charlie Whitehurst may be globetrotters, but the singer insists some of their best memories are made back home.
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The Harlem Globetrotters are offering free tickets to their upcoming tour for federal employees furloughed due to the partial government shutdown.
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It was always a sure thing, about equivalent to the Dream Team beating Angola in 1992 or the Globetrotters winning whenever.
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To help travelers navigate holiday travel, we spoke with six globetrotters on how they make the most out of their Christmas vacations.
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Basketball team the Harlem Globetrotters also secured records, including the titles for the "farthest basketball shot under one leg" at 15.98 meters.
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Forget Tom Brady ... the Harlem Globetrotters gave the New England Patriots cheerleaders something to REALLY get fired up about -- INSANE TRICK SHOTS!!!
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Naturally, the women hung around the other big earners of the day, people like Joe Louis and members of the Harlem Globetrotters.
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Wilson eventually signed with the Chicago American Giants, a team in the Negro leagues, playing one season before returning to the Globetrotters.
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"We have lost one of the most genuine human beings the world has ever known," said Globetrotters general manager Jeff Munn said.
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Ruben Bolen, who played with Kline on the Globetrotters, ended up homeless and was stabbed to death in San Francisco in 1995.
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The best known of these barnstorming teams, often called "Black Fives" by historians, were the New York Renaissance and the Harlem Globetrotters.
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The AI starts out fumbling the ball a bit and by cycle 95 it is able to do some real Harlem Globetrotters stuff.
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Pyongyang, North Korea (CNN)A looming US travel ban has prompted some daring American globetrotters to fast-track their vacations to North Korea.
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He soon joined the Globetrotters, the basketball troupe whose deft mixture of great athleticism and high jinks made them popular around the world.
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He continued to play for the Globetrotters through 223 but left, in part because of his continued frustrations with the racism he encountered.
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The Harlem Globetrotters came to watch Curry do his famous pregame double-handed dribble warm-up, which they then attempted—they couldn't do it.
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The Harlem Globetrotters have teamed up with members of percussion group STOMP for a video to mark the basketball team's 90th birthday this year.
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The four-time Olympic gold medalist paired up with the Harlem Globetrotters' Hammer Harrison to share tricks of the trade in a new video.
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Samaya Clark-Gabrial, of Brooklyn, has made national headlines thanks to her serious game, grabbing the attention of her favorite team, the Harlem Globetrotters.
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Hawkins, who lived in the Phoenix area, joined the team when he was 224 after starring with two lesser leagues and the Harlem Globetrotters.
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She tried her hand at playing against men, both in the United States Basketball League and with the Harlem Globetrotters' rivals, the Washington Generals.
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Where the men's team is based on prospects, both homegrown and acquired, he has invested enough to allow the women to become the Globetrotters.
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"Oh my gosh, he revolutionized ball handling," Nancy Lieberman, who played for the Generals against the Globetrotters in 1988, said in a phone interview.
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The Rens and the Globetrotters, in particular, were internationally known for their dazzling play, often besting white teams when matched up for exhibition games.
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There are so many crazy cameos in it: Harvey Keitel, Reese Witherspoon, Ozzy Osbourne, Quentin Tarantino, the Harlem Globetrotters are in it for a minute.
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It's just another highlight in a string of incredible trick shots from the Globetrotters -- who've also done it from land, sea and a roller coaster.
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No, Brady or Bill Belichick weren't in the house for the show ... but, don't worry, the Globetrotters made sure at least ONE goat was there!!
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The actress and her hubby, Jim Toth, hit up the Staples Center in L.A. Sunday to watch the Globetrotters perform their magic on the court.
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I just feel bad for the Washington Generals (now the World All-Stars), who now have yet another way to lose to the Harlem Globetrotters.
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The Globetrotters invited Sayama to Sunday's game at the Barclays Center, where the little girl will get to show off her skills with the team.
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But at Wednesday's ceremony — after Tuesday comprised mostly of speakers, downtime, and activities (including a Harlem Globetrotters performance), spirits in the Marriott's ballroom seemed high.
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The Globetrotters called him soon after and told him they wanted to make him the No. 1 pick in their inaugural draft, and they did.
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"When the Harlem Globetrotters are in New England, this is how we warm up," teased the athletes, before one sunk a hoop from atop the scoreboard.
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The women, in contrast, are the Globetrotters, a force of unparalleled dominance, a dynasty spanning more than a decade, perhaps the best team on the planet.
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In memoriam: Fred "Curly" Neal, whose dribbling wizardry made him one of the most well-known members of the Harlem Globetrotters, died on Thursday at 77.
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But by talking to these veteran globetrotters, as well as scouring Reddit and various articles, we were able to unearth 12 lesser-known facts about flying.
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Her adoptive father played for the Harlem Globetrotters, while her birth father, whom she met only once, played college football and was drafted by a professional team.
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Hugh Jackman might not be ready to join the Harlem Globetrotters just yet, but his ball-handling skills aren't half bad ... and he's definitely got the charisma.
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Reese Witherspoon and husband Jim Toth got a sweet surprise during the Harlem Globetrotters game on Sunday, which they attended with their 6-year-old son Tennessee.
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Zeus -- who's in town for the Globetrotters game on Saturday -- did a pretty bang-up job before dropping some life knowledge on the kids inside the classroom.
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Whether you loved that ending or hated it, it was preferable to spinning out the story, "Gilligan"-style, until the Harlem Globetrotters washed ashore on The Island.
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" Neal played in more than 6,000 games over 22 years for the Globetrotters while making numerous television appearances, ranging from the "Ed Sullivan Show" to "Scooby-Doo.
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But the all-black Globetrotters faced obstacles caused by racism that were familiar to other black athletes in the 21995s, as sports organizations adapted slowly to integration.
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Ms. Constand, a former point guard who played in college, takes the shot to the accompaniment of "Sweet Georgia Brown," the theme song for the Harlem Globetrotters.
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To arrange what appeared to be an inadvertent encounter, Mr. Platt had an intermediary help him run into Mr. Vasilenko at a Harlem Globetrotters game in Washington.
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The Worm appeared on "TMZ Live" and said the first time he met Kim Jong-un was in 2013 on a basketball trip with the Harlem Globetrotters.
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The Globetrotters are in the Bay Area for a game on Saturday -- and met up with Steph before the Warriors took on the Heat at Oracle Arena.
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A few franchises played exhibition games around the world, including the Harlem Globetrotters, a nomadic basketball team that is still on the road, but international matches were rare.
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Screw Sean Connery ... 'cause this video might be the coolest that ever happened on "The Rock" -- with the Harlem Globetrotters hittin' some crazy trick shots Thursday on Alcatraz!
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But as the most seasoned globetrotters know, there are adventures to be had anywhere you look — and the possibilities to be found in your own backyard are limitless.
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The Globetrotters are in Houston – Biles' hometown – for three area games, and Harrison and Biles' training session took place at the star's home gym, the World Champions Centre.
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But what if you could still live in those cities, moving between them like a digital-age vagabond, sharing well-appointed apartments for short stints with likeminded globetrotters?
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His career suffered for about a decade and he was forced to take roles in now-forgotten movies such as "The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island," IMDb said.
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One of the Harlem Globetrotters took over for that famous HANDSHAKE TEACHER in North Carolina ... and welcomed every single one of his students with their own custom greeting!!
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There he was, Pope Francis still, but instead of a rotating soccer ball balancing on his index finger, you had Earth, an uncooked pizza, a Harlem Globetrotters basketball.
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The Globetrotters have played more than 26,000 appearances across 126 different countries, and are set to perform four times in the New York area within the next month.
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The two connected in 2013 (along with some Vice journalists) at a Harlem Globetrotters exhibition game in North Korea and have since met on a number of occasions.
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But many others who played for the Globetrotters and other all-black barnstorming teams like the New York Renaissance and the Washington Bears fell into obscurity and poverty.
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But a silly-named site is looking to change that for female travelers, allowing globetrotters to access need-to-know health information in an easy-to-read wiki.
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" The media watchdog organization Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting harrumphed, "If the Harlem Globetrotters have the Washington Generals as their nightly fall guys, Sean Hannity has Alan Colmes.
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Two members of the iconic exhibition basketball team visited Gillette Stadium in Foxborough to show off their skills in the lead-up to the Globetrotters' Massachusetts show next month.
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Like the woman who read Eat, Pray, Love and realized she actually hated traveling, but had felt compelled to do so because she came from a family of globetrotters.
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These are the best VPNs for the Amazon Fire TV Stick in the UK. Best for globetrotters Best for simplicity Best for speed Best for protection Best all round
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That's right -- we got Cheese and Jet of the Harlem Globetrotters out in NYC ... and they told TMZ Sports they'd be totally down to bring in the Ball bros.
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The Harlem Globetrotters are back ... nailing a ridiculous and terrifying shot from 300 FEET IN THE AIR ... off the top of the Houston Texans stadium ... and we have the video.
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Globetrotters star Buckets -- with his teammate Scooter -- climbed the the top of Oracle Arena ... walked to the ledge of the over 100 foot high roof ... and took the shot. Boom.
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The 107-year-old -- who famously danced with President Obama AND the Globetrotters -- hit up the Washington Nationals game Thursday night and busted out some moves with manager Dusty Baker!
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I don't want to spoil anything, but for an episode we had the idea to do a Scooby Doo type thing, where he meets the Monkees or the Harlem Globetrotters.
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Globetrotters looking to get in on the $55 deal should look at dates between June 11 and June 28, but a few are relegated to June 19 to June 28.
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That's because when Lemon, above front row third from left, joined the Harlem Globetrotters in 1954, their mix of comedy and basketball legerdemain was the biggest draw in the game.
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In 1936, a team from the Fort Peck Reservation won a state high school championship; its stars, three brothers, went on to anchor a group that beat the Harlem Globetrotters.
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But the fun didn't stop there ... she got hooked up with a custom jersey and tickets to a Globies game in March ... and learned some of the Globetrotters' signature trick moves.
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As part of a weaning process, those next episodes only include cameos by Stamos and Coulier, delivered with the exact level of subtlety that brought the Harlem Globetrotters to Gilligan's Island.
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On Pro Basketball OKLAHOMA CITY — After Russell Westbrook made his entrance to the theme song of the Harlem Globetrotters, he thanked God, his family and Michael Jordan, who had introduced him.
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Fred "Curly" Neal, whose dribbling wizardry made him one of the most well-known members of the beloved Harlem Globetrotters traveling basketball team, died on Thursday at his home near Houston.
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"His basketball skill was unrivaled by most, and his warm heart and huge smile brought joy to families worldwide," Jeff Munn, the Globetrotters' general manager, said in a statement on Thursday.
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But he was raised, he said, largely by an aunt, Rea Ferguson, and her husband, James Colvard, who took him to Negro leagues baseball games and Globetrotters games in the 1940s.
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The Flying Fathers were the Harlem Globetrotters of hockey — touring North America and Europe, compiling more than 900 wins and only a handful of losses, and raising an estimated $133 million.
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That's because when Lemon (third from left in the front row, above) joined the Harlem Globetrotters in 1954, their mix of comedy and basketball legerdemain was the biggest draw in the game.
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The Harlem Globetrotters have taken their show out west -- specifically, to the roof of the Staples Center in L.A. ... where they hit long distance bombs and it was all caught on video!
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Dressed as what appears to be a Harlem Globetrotters basketball player, complete with an afro wig and darkened skin, 26-year-old Griezmann received a string of angry comments about the costume.
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Hoops Green and Buckets Blake, members of the famous group, surprised the little girl at P.S. 309, presenting her with a jersey, wristbands, a basketball and some court time with the Globetrotters.
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The Globetrotters are the latest celebrity group or organization to offer free entertainment or other aid to government workers during the partial shutdown, which has been ongoing for nearly four full weeks.
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She opened her 2014 campaign with an advertisement showing her spinning a basketball on her index finger, Harlem Globetrotters-style, and played up an endorsement from the Boston Celtics legend Bob Cousy.
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According to People, they were last photographed together with their boys at a Harlem Globetrotters game in L.A. in February 2017 ... and Scott didn't attend the 2016 Emmys with her before that.
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In a clip shared by the Harlem Globetrotters on Twitter, the pair could be seen busted some moves together, before Atkinson abruptly put a stop to the fun, and playfully admonished the actress.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Pegasus, the winged white stallion of Ancient Greek mythology, may have been the equine world's first frequent flyer but today's Olympic horses are the real globetrotters racking up the air miles.
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The officer's name is Arius George -- aka Trick Shot Cop -- and his hoop skills are so impressive, he caught the eye of the Harlem Globetrotters and they did an event together back in February.
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It may well make Mr Carney more likely to jump ship (as a Canadian migrant he is, after all, a "citizen of nowhere", to use Mrs May's ill-judged slur on high-flying globetrotters).
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The Harlem Globetrotters are at it again ... this time nailing a death-defying shot from the stadium roof where the Golden State Warriors play ... over 100 feet in the air, no harness, no net.
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Globetrotters star Bull Bullard strapped into a yellow monoplane in Wildwood, New Jersey (where the guys are playing 4 games next week) and took aim at the basket while flying 70 miles per hour.
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The president's visit, during which there will also be a country music concert featuring Toby Keith and a basketball performance by the Harlem Globetrotters, gives Saudi Arabia a chance to showcase its lighter side.
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In what might be the greatest trick shot video ever, Harlem Globetrotters star Bull Bullard took off in a helicopter at Morey's Piers in NJ ... and sank a shot from 210 FEET in the clouds!!
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Cook's venture was rooted not in a tourist's desire to kick back a pint and visit a few historic sights, but in his fervor to keep would-be globetrotters from drinking in the first place.
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At this point, we wouldn't bat an eye if Justin Trudeau, the Harlem Globetrotters, or the ghost of Benjamin Franklin were also spied mingling over the spinach-and-artichoke dip at her Fourth of July bash.
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So Wilson signed with the Harlem Globetrotters in the era when the team was highly competitive, barnstorming the country to take on college all-star teams and white professional teams, even traveling to Europe and Asia.
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He was the whistler on Stephen Marley's "Revelation Part 1: The Root of Life," which won a Grammy Award as the best reggae album in 2011, and on a video with the Harlem Globetrotters theme song.
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Robinson grew up making trips to the Times Union Center to watch Tay Fisher, another undersized Kingstonian who was a star at Siena and now plays with the Harlem Globetrotters under the nom de hoop Firefly.
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The now-107-year-old joined the Globetrotters' Moose Weekes and Zeus McClurkin during a visit to the Roots Public Charter School in Washington D.C. – where she volunteers as a "foster grandparent" – and learned a few tricks.
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" The scorching response to Brawner's allegations included a deep dig at her career -- "Having floundered after being fired by the Globetrotters she apparently will say anything for a bit of media attention and a glimpse of the spotlight.
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She got a tattoo, trained with the Harlem Globetrotters, turned 21, and is still inspiring people all over the world, including a 91-year-old gymnast and ones who are still getting their bearings on the balance bar, too.
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Though it's not the tallest basketball shot ever made (that award goes to this 593-foot shot off a dam), the Harlem Globetrotters version might be even more unique because there's this weird, almost reverse arc to the shot.
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There are few players outside of the Harlem Globetrotters who have ever had the ball on so much of a string, and are able to yo-yo it back and forth, between the legs, around the back, always with a purpose.
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In one of the most highly anticipated elements of the Globetrotters' routine, Neal would dribble all over the court, frequently sliding on his knees, never losing control of the ball no matter how close to the hardwood he had lowered himself.
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Ben Green, the author of "Spinning the Globe: The Rise, Fall, and Return to Greatness of the Harlem Globetrotters" (2005), said that Kline's post-Globetrotter achievements had distinguished him from others known chiefly for what they did on the court.
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Then, in January 2014, Rodman, who first visited North Korea in 2013 for a basketball game with the Harlem Globetrotters in a trip that was chronicled by VICE on HBO, appeared on CNN and basically suggested that Bae got what he deserved.
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"The biggest crowd we ever had was for the Globetrotters, when we drew, I think, around 10,20023 people," Kundla told The St. Cloud Times in 2004, recalling his years in Minneapolis at a time when the N.B.A. was struggling for national attention.
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Inspired by Bolen's death, Kline formed the Black Legends of Professional Basketball Foundation, a small organization dedicated to bringing recognition to the game's often-forgotten pioneers, raising money for them through annual banquets and urging the N.B.A. and the Globetrotters to establish pensions for them.
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The Rens, for example, beat the all-white Oshkosh All-Stars in the first integrated tournament championship in 1939; the Globetrotters beat the Minnesota Lakers in a celebrated 1948 exhibition game that The Chicago Tribune pinpointed as key to the integration of the game.
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In 1950, the year after the Basketball Association of America absorbed the smaller National Basketball League and became the N.B.A., he signed Nat (Sweetwater) Clifton, who had played for the Rens and the Globetrotters (as well as in baseball's Negro leagues), to join the Knicks.
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Ayden Zeigler-Kohler, 10, held three bear cubs in a bear den on March 9; went backstage at a local WWE show on March 19 and was all set to meet the Harlem Globetrotters at the end of March, but he passed away on March 22.
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"Oh shit, we lost our point-shaving draft pick, but also we need a sub-Globetrotters basketball clown team to do a double header with us so we can fill, like, half the gym tonight," we might imagine one Bullets front office employee saying to another.
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And those globetrotters are some of the most lucrative drivers of economic activity, spending an average of $220006,2202 per person, per trip when visiting the U.S. However, our market share of total long-haul travel fell from 2628 percent in 28500 to 6900 percent last year.
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For many in women's soccer, the reference point in United States sports is something else entirely: both Emma Hayes, the coach of Chelsea, the team Lyon narrowly beat in this year's Champions League semifinals, and Phil Neville, the England national team coach, call Lyon the Harlem Globetrotters.
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Johnny Kline, a forward for the Harlem Globetrotters in the 20053s who spent much of the '60s addicted to heroin before becoming a drug abuse counselor and later an advocate for long-forgotten black basketball players, died on July 26 at his home in Lebanon, Tenn.
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He also helped in the campaign to elect Haynes to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1998 and was cited in a congressional resolution passed in 2005 to recognize the history of the African-American players who played before the N.B.A. or with the Globetrotters.
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Still to come: On Thursday he will go into a bear's den and hold a cub, courtesy of the Pennsylvania Game Commission; on Friday he'll go to see some C130s (military transport aircraft) at a local Army base and later this month he'll go to a Harlem Globetrotters game.
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They were last photographed with their kids at a Harlem Globetrotters game in Los Angeles almost a year ago, in February 2017, and the pair most recently walked a red carpet together in September 2016 at the Los Angeles LGBT Center 47th Anniversary Gala Vanguard Awards in West Hollywood.
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The pair was last photographed with their kids at a Harlem Globetrotters game in Los Angeles almost a year ago, in February 2017, and they most recently walked a red carpet together in September 2016 at the Los Angeles LGBT Center 47th Anniversary Gala Vanguard Awards in West Hollywood.
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Since her spirited shuffle with the Obamas, she's met the Harlem Globetrotters for her birthday, plus Dusty Baker and the Washington Nationals, and helped change local legislation preventing the need for DC residents to have a birth certificate to get photo identification, bringing attention to restrictive voter ID complications for elderly citizens.
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As one of the best-loved of England's 42 Anglican cathedrals, it attracts not only the devout but history buffs, movie-goers (it has featured in the "Harry Potter" films and the "Avengers" series), fans of choral singing and Asian globetrotters who count the number of UN-protected heritage sites they have seen.
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Klay Thompson got a lesson in unlimited range at Warriors practice yesterday -- but it wasn't from Steph or KD. Harlem Globetrotters Zeus McClurkin and Dizzy English hit the hardwood in Oakland to show Klay how to get wet from 4-point distance (30 FEET) ... but it looked like the Splash Bro had it covered.
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Known for wearing ever-present white pads over his knees and an array of red, white and blue wristbands, Neal helped the Globetrotters' barnstorming ensemble become a regular feature of ABC's "Wide World of Sports" in an era when the National Basketball Association did not have a robust national television presence as it does now.
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Nonetheless, he was barred from collegiate play and the N.B.A. Hawkins played one season in the American Basketball League and two seasons with the Globetrotters and was a star in his two seasons in the American Basketball Association, which later merged with the N.B.A. Hawkins's path to the N.B.A. was buoyed in part by a 1969 article in Life magazine by David Wolf.
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Mr. Weber, Mr. Vitello and fellow obit writers Margalit Fox, William Grimes and Douglas Martin are as amusing about as they are amused by some of their subjects, whether it was Manson Whitlock, one of the last typewriter repairmen, who died at 96 in 2013, or Meadowlark Lemon, the seemingly indestructible clown prince of the Harlem Globetrotters, who died at 83 in 2015.
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Much of her work contains groupings of tiny figures — resembling eight-bit Atari characters — that convey something akin to a Freudian six degrees of separation: Shelley Duvall paired with Coco Chanel; a recasting of the Three Stooges starring Larry Flynt, the Velvet Underground's upright drummer Moe Tucker and Curly Neal of the Harlem Globetrotters; John F. Kennedy's assassination juxtaposed with Olympian Greg Louganis's bloody diving accident; Hello Kitty standing above the Virgin Mary.
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