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Tip-Off Timer: There Will Never Be a Greater Laker Than Chick Hearn

Tip-Off Timer counts down the days until the first game of the 2009-10 season. On Monday, there are 36 days remaining. If you lived in Los Angeles at anytime from the time the Lakers moved to L.A. in the early 1960's to the last of the Shaq/Kobe championships in 2002, you are probably quite familiar with Francis "Chick"...

Random YouTube Magic: Kareem and Chick Have a Chat

That's Kareem Abdul-Jabbar talking with legendary Lakers announcer Chick Hearn before a game against the Jazz on April 5, 1984. Of course, it wasn't just any old game, it was the game that Abdul-Jabbar broke Wilt Chamberlain's scoring record, and it happened at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, of all places, where...

Random YouTube Magic: Chick Hearn Rap

Every time I say "basketball sucks on the radio," some old dude tells me that I wasn't reared on Chick Hearn. Then he tells me that hip-hop is the devil, and I reply "you've obviously never heard Chick Hearn's signature calls sampled in a goofy rap number." That's when we shake hands and start a Fortune 500...

Does USC Football Own Los Angeles?

Not according to one writer. The Los Angeles Times' Christine Daniels lists the region's most popular sports teams and the Trojans come out third behind the Dodgers and the Lakers. Having lived in Los Angeles, I can definitely give the nod to the Dodgers here. Their appeal is universal and both Dodger Stadium and Vin...

Background on chick hearn

Francis Dayle "Chick" Hearn (November 27, 1916 – August 5, 2002) was an American sportscaster. Known primarily as the long-time play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association, Hearn was remembered for his rapid fire, staccato broadcasting style, inventing colorful phrases such as slam dunk, air ball, and no harm, no foul that have become common basketball vernacular, and for broadcasting 3,338 consecutive Lakers games starting on November 21, 1965. Additionally, Hearn started the now common tradition of estimating the distance of shots taken.

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