ERVING PASSES TORCH TO JORDAN, NBA'S NEW KING By GLENN NELSON February 5, 1987 Publication: THE SEATTLE TIMES Page: C3 Word Count: 1379 CHICAGO, Jan. 17 _ Early in Michael Jordan's first career backcourt matchup with Philadelphia's Julius Erving, Chicago's John Paxson is motoring downcourt on a fast breakaway. The standing-room-only Chicago Stadium crowd of …
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Bernie’s Odessey
SOME BAD BOUNCES HAVEN'T DAUNTED SONICS COACH BERNIE BICKERSTAFF By GLENN NELSON April 24, 1988 Publication: PACIFIC MAGAZINE, THE SEATTLE TIMES Page: 16 Word Count: 4287 Benham, Ky., is a company town fast losing its company. An economically battered and slowly vanishing coal-mining community nestled in the Appalachians, it offers few inducements to visitors. The …
In Bob Kloppenbug I Trusted
Bob Kloppenburg isn’t truly gone because his words and ideas continue to percolate in my head like balls in a bingo cage.
Less than Sterling
Gifted with an opportunity to seize and shape a defining moment in their sport’s history, they pondered and met and schemed. They geared up and took aim. And on Sunday night in Oakland, the players of the Los Angeles Clippers shot a figurative air ball. Wading amid the cultural rip tide created by their owner, …
The Buzz: Glenn Nelson 