Friday, July 25, 2008

Basketball Star, Food Poisoned Pilot, Blogger...

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar blog.

Kareem is, of course, the man, but I was blown away by this section from his biography:

Kareem also remains intellectually active, authoring six bestselling history books intended to popularize the contributions of African-Americans to American culture and history. His books include "Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African-American Achievement"; "Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes"; "A Season on the Reservation," which chronicles his time teaching basketball and history on an Apache Indian reservation in White River, Ariz.; and the current New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller, "On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance."

Jesum Crow!  The guy is unstoppable!

(Found via Gawker.  Kareem used to blog for the LA Times!)

2 comments:

Hernandez said...

If by "the man" you mean "a whining, sniveling, arrogant cheap shot artist," then yes, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was indeed the man.

Dave Cavalier said...

Yes, that's what I meant.