Friday, March 2, 2012

Wilt chamberlain

  • EUGENE , Ore. (KMTR) -- 50 years after Wilt Chamberlain set one of the greatest records in sports history, scoring 100 points in a professional basketball game, a Eugene man is reflecting on the game and the role he got to play in, playing against Chamberlain.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • It is one of sports' greatest single-game performances, a feat so outrageous that it stands a half-century later as a sort of statistical Everest, perhaps never again to be scaled.
  • (Boston Herald)
  • That total made the second-year shooting guard out of North Carolina AT Phillys second-leading scorer -- a mere 83 points behind the high man, center Wilt Chamberlain, who that evening at the Hershey (Pa.
  • (CNN Sports Illustrated)
  • IT BEGAN with a column that Donald Hunt penned in the Philadelphia Tribune.
  • (Philadelphia Daily News)
  • Records are made to be broken. However, these four records are so impressive that it will be impossible to break them.
  • (Bleacherreport.com)
  • In this March 2, 1962 file photo, Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors holds a sign reading 100 in the dressing room in Hershey, Pa., after he scored 100 points, as the Warriors defeated the New York Knickerbockers 169-147.
  • (Main Line Media News)
  • Gary M.
  • (Philadelphia Daily News)
  • But 100 points in a professional basketball game? Only Wilt Chamberlain could do that. In all likelihood, only Wilt Chamberlain will ever do that.
  • (CBS Sports)
  • Wilt Chamberlain set an NBA record that will probably never be broken – one of many in his legendary career – 50 years ago today: He scored 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors in a win over the New York Knicks.
  • (The Big Lead)
  • They will commemorate one of the great achievements in the history of American sport today. What makes this anniversary unique is that it will be celebrated with considerably more attention than was the event at the time it actually happened.
  • (PennLive.com)

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