Don Chaney learned to play basketball while growing up in Baton Rouge, La. He became a skilled baller and played the game at the University of Houston. Then, he went on to have a successful career as a point guard and later a coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
At 75, when Chaney was retired and ready to settle down and enjoy his newfound leisure when he had to acquire knowledge about an issue that has nothing to do with sports and everything to do with healthy living.
In 2019, Chaney was diagnosed with hereditary Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM), a rare but life-threatening disease that can lead to heart failure. It disproportionately impacts African Americans.
May 11, 2021 / 04:56 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (Inside INdiana Business) Pacers Sports & Entertainment will Wednesday host a celebration of life for Bobby “Slick” Leonard, who passed away last month.
The event will feature remarks and video tributes from friends, former players and fans honoring the former Pacers head coach and broadcaster.
The event is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Limited tickets are being sold with proceeds benefiting the Dropping Dimes Foundation.
Leonard was part of the 1953 NCAA Championship-winning team at Indiana University and spent seven years as a professional. He coached the Pacers in the American Basketball Association for more than a decade, earning three ABA championships.
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In 1984, the year after her Women’s American Basketball Association championship victory with the Dallas Diamonds, Nancy Lieberman was a reigning champion in a league that folded almost as quickly as it started. In the midst of deliberating her next plan of action to continue playing basketball, Lieberman received word that David Stern, then NBA commissioner, wanted her to come to New York to speak with him. Little did she know she’d be involved in the beginning conversations of an idea that led to the most innovative and progressive women’s league in history.
“I was really nervous,” Lieberman says. “I was sitting in [Stern’s] office, and he closed the door. I was 24, 25 years old. I was like, ‘Why am I here?’ And he says, ‘Well, they’ll fire me if they hear this.’ He sat down and he goes, ‘Nancy, before I’m done being the commissioner of the NBA, there’s going to be a WNBA.’ I just looked at him and went, ‘What are
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Don’t go chasing waterfalls. well, maybe this one.
Back in 1948, a group of outdoor-loving professors at San Diego State College got together with a handful of other prominent local professionals. The group wanted to mate a pair of desires: city living and country space, with enough room for horseback riding and other outdoor activities.
If you’re ever bored. there’s shuffleboard!
What they came up with was Alvarado Estates, a private gated community comprising a few square miles just west of the college campus on the hills sloping down into Mission Valley from Montezuma Mesa. At the time, the area was the site of a private airport and a single residence. The new homesites, keeping with the open space theme, would occupy at least one acre. (Lots in the area at the time ranged from a sixth to as small as a tenth of an acre.) None of the homes were to protrude more than a single story above street level, keeping the community modest in appearance even if the mansions that woul