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Malcolm’s Last Hour

 

 

 

 

Brother Malcolm only lived to be 39

February 21, 1965

That was the day Malcolm Little took his last breath. I was thinking about todays post and wanted to do something different to honor Malcolm. Many of us refer to him as brother Malcolm because there is a brotherhood for all of us who want to do better for ourselves, our families and our communities. Malcolm was no different and today’s post will give you a insight into a piece of Malcolm that you have never seen.  One of my buddies on twitter Johnathan Tillman (@thetillshow on twitter) told this story verbatum on and I am honored to repost it.

Thanks again Till

42 Lines

First ever cover of Slam Magazine

Fact: In order to be a good writer you have to enjoy reading.

Fact: Every writer writes based on their inspiration and/or experience.

When I was younger the only thing that I enjoyed reading were sports Magazines. My parents allowed me to express my creativity and I had sports pictures and cut outs all over my wall. I wish I had a picture cause the room my brother and I shared was c-o-v-e-r-e-d with sports pictures. Back then the only sports magazine out was Sports Illustrated but there was something that didn’t allow me to fully connect. Fast forward to 1994 an urban, brash, in-your-face magazine called SLAM came on the scene and I instantly connected with it. The first writer who pulled me into his world of words was Scoop Jackson. This post is inspired by his first article he wrote when he got to ESPN entitled “The Scoop Manifesto” .

Thanks to all those who blazed the path for young writers to write their own manifesto.

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Tim Hardaway – Throwback Tues.

Throwback Tuesday is becoming on of the best parts of this blog. Doing our research for the throwback athlete of the week is awesome because we here at Ballers Sports are old school to the chore. At first glance it was kind of surprising that today’s throwback was even considered a throwback, I guess that’s us showing our age. Todays throwback athlete is none other than Timothy Duane “Tim” Hardaway. Sit back, relax and lets take a look at #10.

Moments in Sports That We L-O-V-E

 

 

 

Who didn't love that 06 George Mason team

Ballers Sports would like to wish every one of our readers a very happy Valentines day. Love is a beautiful thing and if you look around you should be able to celebrate some type of love in your life, because that is what Valentines day is all about.  As sports fans we all have certain sports, teams and players that we “love”. In honor of this day we wanted to put together a quick list of moments that we love in sports. After you read this and if there is anything we’ve left out, feel free to add what you love in our comments section.

Ballers Sports – Week in Review

Kemp was this weeks throwback

As a sports blogger who isn’t really into putting a lot of additional entertainment gossip and other things on this site we would like to keep this site for the sports purist. We are already working on some interesting and fun topics for next week but if you have an idea or would like to do a guest feature just hit us in the comments or email us at ballers.sports@gmail.com Since its going into a relatively slow sports weekend we thought we would just recap the week that was.

My Sports Journey

Oh to be 16 again.

When you decide to become a blogger and write your views for others to read one thing you will soon realize is that if you don’t have a network of fellow bloggers to surround you then you will  soon be a thing of the past. I have began to surround myself around some very creative writers who have carved their own niche into the blogosphere. Shout out to my homie Eddie Maisonet creator of http://www.edthesportsfan.com. He shared with me the first post he wrote back in 2008 and this post is inspired by that. Keep doing your thing bro.

What We Learned from SB XLV

Superbowl XVL will be remembered for Aaron Rodgers catapulting himself into the upper echelon of NFL Quarterbacks. The Packers beat the Steelers in what I would call a very good but not great game, which is fine by me because not every Superbowl can be great. So, what else did we learn from the Superbowl?

Shawn Kemp – Throwback Tues.

Remember these?

Shawn Kemp was known as the reign man in the NBA during the early 90’s. Before his career ended Kemp was a All-star and a daily highlight on sportscenter. To the young kats out there Shawn Kemp was Blake Griffin before Blake Griffin was Blake Griffin. Kemp was on yesterday’s post (Old School NBA – http://wp.me/p1hrP8-9w ) and we already had him pegged for this weeks Throwback Tuesday a week ago.