LaHitz Sports Network
LaHitz Sports Network's launch date is 11-11-13. In the meantime, in between time, we will be bringing you sports updates and feature stories from around the world.
Let's start local firsts. It's a super time to be a Bay Area Sports (Fan) Fanatic! The Oakland A's made an amazing run to the play-off and were beaten by Detroit Tigers, who were beaten in the World Series last year by our Bay Area S.F. Giants!
The America's Cup ended a few weeks ago with Team USA Oracle coming from 7 points down to win the prize! To put this in perspective, it would be like your team coming from 3 games to 0 in the World Series. Fourth game 7th inning they are up 5-2 and your team goes on to win the series. So does that make Larry Ellison the new William Alexander Leidesdorff? "Good job," Team Oracle!
Football is in full swing with almost half the season played. The San Francisco 49ers are 6 & 2 and the Oakland Raiders are 3 & 5 at the time of this article. Both look to be in the playoffs, if Oakland shores up its strong points, after that "Ouch" loss to the Eagles. In the spirit of fair play, I am asking one more time for the Raiders and 49ers' fans to root for each other. We are all one united Bay Area (Smile)!
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| Frank Gore SF 49er Star Running Back Secrets to Success for Young People |
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| Frank Gore teases V. Davis |
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| 49er Legend Bryant Young Speaks to Youth |
Come and meet some of the Warriors at the S.F. NAACP Gala, November 9, 2013, 6:00 p.m. at the San Francisco Hilton along with San Francisco Giants & 49ers. There are still a few tables and tickets left, if you act now. Journalists, Tavis Smiley & Barbara Rodgers, along with musician Pete Escovedo and other celebrities will light up the evening of purpose and fun.
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| Bill Russell (l) K.C. Jones(r) with coach and Celtics teammates. |
For a tip on the Warriors community outreach, some members paid a visit to K.C. Jones' alma mater, Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School last month with a message to excel in school and gift bags for the students. (It was Portola Jr. High School when K.C. went there and some years later, yours truly.)
K.C. Jones grew up in "D Rock" (Double Rock) and attended U.S.F. with Bill Russell and a group of super talented youth that won back-to-back NCAA Championships for the "Dons" and put tiny USF in the national spot light in the mid 1950's. K.C. and Bill were both Olympic Gold Medal winners on the 1956 U.S. Men's Olympic basketball team with Bill serving as captain. Jones and Russell were both drafted by the Boston Celtics and won many NBA Championships there.
Congratulations to Russell, who recently had a statue unveiled in his honor in Boston. At the ceremony, his high school classmate, fellow San Franciscan, Johnny Mathis performed "I Am My Father's Son," written by Bill Withers for the occasion and performed with Mathis.
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| President Barack Obama Congratulates Russell Near Statute Created by Ann Hirsch of Somerville, MA. |
"All I ever tried was to never shame my father'' Bill Russell
During the upcoming NBA season, LaHitz Sports will bring you interviews, stories, updates and two new series, "Flashback" and "What's in a Number."
Stay Tuned!
