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| 'He Got Game' is arguably the GOAT basketball movie. (c)Hollywood Reporter |
In the 1998 sports classic film 'He Got Game', Academy Award winner Denzel Washington and rising NBA star Ray Allen would team up with Spike Lee to create a timeless movie where a father can only shorten his jail time by persuading his basketball playing son to attend a particular university.
An incredible scene.
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| Griffey has a career year in '93 but the best was yet to come. (c)Seattle Times |
28 years ago today on the 28th day of the 7 month in 1993, MLB Superstar Ken Griffey Jr. tied the league record for most consecutive games with a home run.
It was his 8th straight game with a homer.
At that point, "The Kid" was already a four-time all star well on his way to legendary baseball status as one of the 2 best players of the 1990's.
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| "Real Love" was Mary J. Blige's first major hit banger. (c)IMDb |
On this day in 1992, Mary J. Blige released her debut album 'What's the 411?'
It was executive produced by Puff Daddy and featured Busta Rhymes, KC-I Haile & Grand Puba. 
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"I'll Wait And Pray" is the 3rd song 'Coltrane Jazz' second side. George Treadwell and Jerry Valentine were the writers.
The Rolling Stone Jazz Guide gave the album 5 stars.
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| Oscar achieved historic feats during his storied career.. (c)Eurobasket |
He is the all time leading scorer in basketball history, one of FIBA's 50 greatest players, Naismith and FIBA Basketball Hall of Famer and the record holder for the longest professional career of 29 years.
During the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, Oscar truly activated another level of supreme basketball. In eight games he scored 338 points, averaging 42.3 points per game.
In the final game of group action, he poured in 55 points vs Spain setting a new Olympic record that is yet to be broken.
Oscar Schmidt finished his Olympic career as the all time leading scorer with 1,093 points.
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| Along with Duane Martin, 'Above The Rim' was a big success due to 2Pac's & Wayans's presence. (c) Worldwide Entertainment TV |
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| Berry would star alongside Kurt Russell in 1996 Spring film 'Executive Decision'. |
The Buccaneers opened their season on road in 2003 as defending Super Bowl champions.
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Eight months earlier, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers led by their all time legendary defense completely stifled the Philadelphia Eagles in a 27-10 victory in the NFC Championship.
It would be the last game at the Eagles's Veteran Stadium where they played for 31 years. |
| Mayer's fourth studio project was also produced by Steve Jordan. (c)Wikipedia |
"Edge of Desire" is the 9th song on John Mayer's 4th album 'Battle Studies'.
The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. |
| Jarboro made her debut in Italy after boosting her popularity on Broadway. (c) Star-News |
She was sought out by operatic impresario Alfredo Salmaggi to perform it with the Chicago Civic Opera. Many critics lauded her performance.
Jarboro was subsequently invited to become a member of the New York Metropolitan Opera Association. Upon recognizing that she was Afro-Indian instead of Italian, her membership was denied.
The legendary singer with honor would later decline being a member of the association after a second invitation was later offered.
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| Dante Hall is nicknamed the "X-Factor" and the "Human Joystick". (c) NFL |
Between the 2002 and 2003 NFL seasons, Kansas City Chiefs Punt Returner, Kick Returner and Wide Receiver Dante Hall scored an astounding 10 kick-off and punt return touchdowns in 13 games.
This would lead to him being named Second-team All-Pro in 2002, First-team All-Pro in 2003, First-team NFL 2000s All-Decade Team as a punt returner and Second-team NFL 2000s All-Decade Team as a kick returner.
His punt return in 2003 against the Denver Broncos just may be his most brilliant piece of work on the football field.
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Jamiroquai's Travelling Without Moving went triple platinum in the UK. (c) Wikipedia |
Jamiroquai sent the world a message about the use of technology in 1996 with hit single "Virtual Insanity".
This was roughly a decade before Facebook, Twitter and the release of the iPhone. One could believe that co-writers of the song, Jay Kay and Toby Smith (RIP) would be a little more worried now.
The British funk-pop band released it as their second single from their 3rd album, Travelling Without Moving. While the content of the song was about the future of the digital world, the music video embraced that concept to a great degree and was recognized for doing so. As it was directed by Jonathan Glazer, it later recieved 10 nominations at the MTV Video Music Awards and took home 4 trophies including Best Video of the Year.
At the 1998 Grammy Awards, Jamiroquai won the award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.
Apollo Lunar Module Eagle made history.
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On This Day in 1969, NASA's Apollo 11 mission to the moon begun as the Saturn V rocket that contained Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Kennedy, Florida 9:32 A.M EDT.
The astronauts would become the first humans to step foot on the moon four days later. 
ESPN NFL 2K5 has a very strong case as the GOAT sports video game.
(c) YouTube/hkkGAME12
17 years ago today, NFL 2K5 was released.
It's been called one of the greatest game to date and has received on PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions a 9.3 and 9.4 out of 10.
