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Plus, the set's "The 1" & "Exile" open in the Hot 100's top 10.

Taylor Swift's "Cardigan" blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart.

The song is from Swift's new LP Folklore, which launches at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as Swift becomes the first artist ever to debut at No. 1 on both the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 in the same week.

Folklore was released July 24 on Republic Records, after being first teased by Swift only the day before.

"Cardigan" is joined by two other songs from the set that debut in the Hot 100's top 10: "The 1," at No. 4, and "Exile," featuring Bon Iver, at No. 6.

Plus, Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo's "Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)" enters the Hot 100's top 10, rising 12-10.

Let's run down the top 10 of the newest Hot 100, which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Aug. 8) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Aug. 4).

"Cardigan," the 1,106th No. 1 in the Hot 100's 62-year history, enters with 34 million U.S. streams and 71,000 downloads sold in the week ending July 30, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. It concurrently debuts atop both the Streaming Songs and Digital Song Sales charts.

The song also drew 12.7 million in all-format radio airplay audience in the week ending Aug. 2.

Here are 13 (famously Swift's favorite number) notable achievements surrounding the chart arrival of Folklore and its songs.

First artist ever to debut atop Hot 100 & Billboard 200 simultaneously: With "Cardigan" and Folklore, Swift is the first artist to debut at No. 1 on the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 in the same week. The Billboard 200 began on March 24, 1956, and the Hot 100 originated on Aug. 4, 1958.

41st song to debut at No. 1 on Hot 100: "Cardigan" is the 41st song to debut at No. 1 on the Hot 100. It's Swift's second, after "Shake It Off" on the chart dated Sept. 6, 2014.

Swift is the seventh artist with multiple No. 1 Hot 100 entrances, joining Justin Bieber, Mariah Carey, Drake, Ariana Grande (the leaders with three each), Travis Scott and Britney Spears (two each).

Meanwhile, "Cardigan" is the sixth song to debut atop the Hot 100 in 2020, extending the record for the most in a single year. Four songs each started at No. 1 in both 2018 and 1995.

Swift's sixth No. 1: Swift scores her sixth Hot 100 leader. Here's a recap:

"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," three weeks, beginning Sept. 1, 2012 "Shake It Off," four weeks, beginning Sept. 6, 2014 "Blank Space," seven weeks, beginning Nov. 29, 2014 "Bad Blood," feat. Kendrick Lamar, one week, June 6, 2015 "Look What You Made Me Do," three weeks, beginning Sept. 16, 2017 "Cardigan," one week to-date, Aug. 8, 2020

Swift is the 26th artist in the Hot 100's history with at least six No. 1s, and the ninth solo woman. The Beatles lead all acts with 20 No. 1s, followed by Carey with 19.

First woman to debut two songs in top five simultaneously: With "Cardigan" at No. 1 and "The 1" at No. 4, Swift is the first woman, and third act overall, to debut two songs in the Hot 100's top five simultaneously.

Lil Wayne first earned the honor with "Mona Lisa," featuring Kendrick Lamar (No. 2), and "Don't Cry," featuring XXXTentacion (No. 5), on Oct. 13, 2018. Just two weeks ago, on the July 25 chart, the late Juice WRLD entered at Nos. 2 and 5, respectively, with "Come & Go," with Marshmello, and "Wishing Well."

Swift is, thus, the first artist to debut two songs in the Hot 100's top four spots simultaneously.

Three debuts in top 10: As "Cardigan," "The 1" and "Exile" arrive at Nos. 1, 4 and 6, respectively, Swift debuts three songs in the Hot 100's top 10 simultaneously for the first time. She's the sixth artist to accomplish the feat, following Drake (July 14, 2018), Lil Wayne (Oct. 13, 2018) and Juice WRLD (July 25), who share the record with four debuts each in the top 10 simultaneously, and J. Cole (May 5, 2018) and Lil Uzi Vert (March 21, 2020), each with three.

Further, Swift is the first artist to debut three songs in the Hot 100's top six spots in a single week.

Swift up to 28 career top 10s, tied for sixth-most: Swift swells her count of career Hot 100 top 10s from 25 to 28, tying Mariah Carey and Stevie Wonder for the sixth-best sum.

Here is a recap of the acts with the most Hot 100 top 10s, dating to the chart's Aug. 4, 1958, inception (two years after Elvis Presley's commercial breakthrough):

Most Hot 100 Top 10s 40, Drake 38, Madonna 34, The Beatles 31, Rihanna 30, Michael Jackson 28, Mariah Carey 28, Taylor Swift 28, Stevie Wonder 27, Elton John 27, Janet Jackson 25, Lil Wayne 25, Elvis Presley

18 career top 10 debuts: Swift extends her record among women for the most debuts in the Hot 100's top 10, as her three new arrivals lift her total to 18. Among all acts, only Drake has more: 25.

16 songs from Folklore hit Hot 100: Swift sends the entirety of the standard edition of Folklore onto the Hot 100, as its 16 songs enter the chart, from "Cardigan" at No. 1 to album closer "Hoax" at No. 71.

Folklore is Swift's second consecutive album whose standard version has fully infused the Hot 100: 18 songs from Lover, which soared in atop the Billboard 200 dated Sept. 7, 2019, charted on the Hot 100 the same week.

Swift passes Nicki Minaj for most Hot 100 entries among women: Swift surges from 97 career Hot 100 entries to 113, passing Nicki Minaj (110) for the most among women.

Swift also becomes the 10th act with at least 100 Hot 100 entries, as she ascends to the fourth-best total. Here's an updated leaderboard:

Most Hot 100 Entries 224, Drake 207, Glee Cast 169, Lil Wayne 113, Taylor Swift 111, Future 110, Nicki Minaj 109, Elvis Presley 108, Kanye West 101, Chris Brown 100, Jay-Z

First solo woman at No. 1 since January: "Cardigan" is the first Hot 100 No. 1 billed solely to one woman since Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" logged three weeks on top from Dec. 21, 2019, through Jan. 4. Before that, Selena Gomez's "Lose You to Love Me" led the Nov. 9 list.

'Cardigan' No. 1 in streams & sales: With 34 million U.S. streams and 71,000 sold in the week ending July 30, "Cardigan" starts as the most-streamed and top-selling song of the week. Swift scores her third Streaming Songs No. 1 and her record-extending 20th Digital Song Sales No. 1, furthering her lead on the latter list over runner-up Rihanna (14).

"Cardigan" was on sale in Swift's webstore via multiple physical/digital combination offerings during the tracking week, ending July 30, including an alternate "Cabin in Candlelight" version released July 29. Consumers could purchase CD and vinyl singles, each with a digital download; the download would be sent to consumers upon purchase, with physical versions due to arrive at a later date.

Radio tries on 'Cardigan': "Cardigan" drew 12.7 million in radio airplay audience in its first full week, ending Aug. 2. It rises 26-17 on the Adult Pop Songs airplay chart and debuts at No. 19 on Adult Contemporary and No. 27 on Pop Songs.

Bon Iver's first Hot 100 top 10: With "Exile" debuting at No. 6 on the Hot 100, Bon Iver earns its first top 10 on the chart. The act, fronted by Justin Vernon, previously charted two titles, both in 2010 as featured on songs on Kanye West's album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, led by the No. 18-peaking "Monster," also featuring Jay-Z, Rick Ross and Minaj.

"Cardigan" dethrones DaBaby's seven-week Hot 100 leader "Rockstar," featuring Roddy Ricch. The track holds at No. 2 on the Radio Songs chart (67.9 million, up 10%) and dips to No. 3 on Streaming Songs, after nine weeks at No. 1 (32.9 million, down 9%), and 5-7 on Digital Song Sales (10,000, down 6%).

"Rockstar" concurrently rules the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for an eighth week each.

Jack Harlow's "Whats Poppin," featuring DaBaby, Tory Lanez and Lil Wayne, drops to No. 3 on the Hot 100 from its No. 2 high.

The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" descends 4-5 on the Hot 100, following its four-week rule. It tops Radio Songs for a 17th frame (76.2 million in audience, up 2%), moving to within a week of potentially tying for the longest command since the chart started in December 1990.

Most Weeks at No. 1 on Radio Songs 18, "Iris," Goo Goo Dolls, beginning Aug. 1, 1998 17, "Blinding Lights," The Weeknd, April 18, 2020 16, "Girls Like You," Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B, Aug. 4, 2018 16, "We Belong Together," Mariah Carey, May 28, 2005 16, "Don't Speak," No Doubt, Dec. 7, 1996

"Blinding Lights" tops the multi-metric Hot R&B Songs chart for a record-tying 20th week. It joins three other songs for a share of the mark, including another by The Weeknd, dating to the list's October 2012 start: Drake's "One Dance," featuring WizKid and Kyla (2016); The Weeknd's "Starboy," featuring Daft Punk (2016-17); and Bruno Mars' "That's What I Like" (2017).

Harry Styles' "Watermelon Sugar" holds at its No. 7 Hot 100 high; SAINt JHN's "Roses" slides 5-8, after reaching No. 4; and Megan Thee Stallion's former one-week leader "Savage," featuring Beyoncé, falls 6-9.

Rounding out the Hot 100's top 10, Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo's "Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)" enters the tier, rising 12-10. The track retreats 3-4 on Digital Song Sales, although with a 14% advance to 13,000 sold, and 10-17 on Streaming Songs, but with a 1% gain to 17.9 million U.S. streams, while climbing 40-33 on Radio Songs (23.5 million, up 23%).

New Zealand producer Jawsh 685 (real name: Joshua Nanai) hits the Hot 100's top 10 in his first visit to the chart, while Derulo adds his seventh top 10 and first since the No. 5-peaking "Want to Want Me" in 2015.

(A "savage" garden: Three songs with "savage" in their titles have hit the Hot 100 all-time, and two of them rank back-to-back at Nos. 9 and 10 this week. The other? Rod Hart's "C.b. Savage," which reached No. 67 in 1977.)

For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram. And again, be sure to visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Aug. 8), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh.

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.; April 16, 1947) is an American former professional basketball player who played 20 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Milwaukee Bucks and the Los Angeles Lakers. During his career as a center, Abdul-Jabbar was a record six-time NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP), a record 19-time NBA All-Star, a 15-time All-NBA selection, and an 11-time NBA All-Defensive Team member. A member of six NBA championship teams as a player and two more as an assistant coach, Abdul-Jabbar twice was voted NBA Finals MVP. In 1996, he was honored as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. NBA coach Pat Riley and players Isiah Thomas and Julius Erving have called him the greatest basketball player of all time.

After winning 71 consecutive basketball games on his high school team in New York City, Alcindor was recruited by Jerry Norman, the assistant coach of UCLA, where he played for coach John Wooden on three consecutive national championship teams and was a record three-time MVP of the NCAA Tournament. Drafted with the first overall pick by the one-season-old Bucks franchise in the 1969 NBA draft, Alcindor spent six seasons in Milwaukee. After leading the Bucks to its first NBA championship at age 24 in 1971, he took the Muslim name Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Using his trademark "skyhook" shot, he established himself as one of the league's top scorers. In 1975, he was traded to the Lakers, with whom he played the final 14 seasons of his career and won five additional NBA championships. Abdul-Jabbar's contributions were a key component in the "Showtime" era of Lakers basketball. Over his 20-year NBA career, his teams succeeded in making the playoffs 18 times and got past the first round 14 times; his teams reached the NBA Finals on 10 occasions.

At the time of his retirement at age 42 in 1989, Abdul-Jabbar was the NBA's all-time leader in points scored (38,387), games played (1,560), minutes played (57,446), field goals made (15,837), field goal attempts (28,307), blocked shots (3,189), defensive rebounds (9,394), career wins (1,074), and personal fouls (4,657). He remains the all-time leader in points scored, field goals made, and career wins. He is ranked third all-time in both rebounds and blocked shots. In 2007, ESPN voted him the greatest center of all time, in 2008, they named him the "greatest player in college basketball history", and in 2016, they named him the second best player in NBA history (behind Michael Jordan). Abdul-Jabbar has also been an actor, a basketball coach, and a best-selling author. In 2012, he was selected by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to be a U.S. global cultural ambassador. In 2016, President Barack Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Early life and high school career

Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. was born in New York City, the only child of Cora Lillian, a department store price checker, and Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Sr., a transit police officer and jazz musician. He grew up in the Dyckman Street projects in the Inwood neighborhood of Upper Manhattan. Alcindor was unusually large and tall from a young age. At birth he weighed 12 lb 11 oz (5.75 kg) and was 22 1⁄2 inches (57 cm) long, and by the age of nine he was already 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) tall. By the eighth grade (age 13–14) he had grown to 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) tall and could already slam dunk a basketball.

Alcindor began his record-breaking basketball accomplishments when he was in high school, where he led coach Jack Donahue's Power Memorial Academy team to three straight New York City Catholic championships, a 71-game winning streak, and a 79–2 overall record. This earned him a nickname—"The tower from Power". His 2,067 total points were a New York City high school record. The team won the national high school boys basketball championship when Alcindor was in 10th and 11th grade and was runner-up his senior year. Alcindor had a strained relationship with his coach. In his 2017 book "Coach Wooden and Me," Abdul-Jabbar relates an incident where Donahue called him a nigger.

UCLA

Alcindor was recruited to the UCLA freshman team in 1965 and only played because the "freshman rule" was in effect, but his prowess was already well known. He received national coverage when he made his varsity debut in 1967: Sports Illustrated described him as "The New Superstar." From 1967 to 1969, he played on the varsity under head coach John Wooden. He was the main contributor to the team's three-year record of 88 wins and only two losses: one to the University of Houston in which Alcindor had an eye injury, and the other to crosstown rival USC who played a "stall game" (i.e., there was no shot clock in those days, so a team could hold the ball as long as it wanted before attempting to score). In his first game, Alcindor scored 56 points, which set a UCLA single-game record.

During his college career, Alcindor was twice named Player of the Year (1967, 1969); was a three-time First Team All-American (1967–1969); played on three NCAA basketball champion teams (1967, 1968 and 1969); was honored as the Most Outstanding Player in the NCAA Tournament three times and became the first-ever Naismith College Player of the Year in 1969.

In 1967 and 1968, he also won USBWA College Player of the Year, which later became the Oscar Robertson Trophy. Alcindor became the only player to win the Helms Foundation Player of the Year award three times. The 1965–66 UCLA Bruin team was the preseason #1. On November 27, 1965, the freshman team, led by Alcindor, defeated the varsity 75–60 in the first game in the new Pauley Pavilion. Alcindor scored 31 points and had 21 rebounds in what was a good indication of things to come. After the game, the UCLA varsity was #1 in the country but #2 on campus. If the "freshman rule" had not been in effect at that time, UCLA would have had a much better chance of winning the 1966 National Championship.

Alcindor had considered transferring to Michigan because of unfulfilled recruiting promises. UCLA player Willie Naulls introduced Alcindor and teammate Lucius Allen to athletic booster Sam Gilbert, who convinced the pair to remain at UCLA.

The dunk was banned in college basketball after the 1967 season, primarily because of Alcindor's dominant use of the shot. The rule was not rescinded until the 1976–77 season, which was shortly after Wooden's retirement.

During his junior year, Alcindor suffered a scratched left cornea on January 12, 1968, in a game against Cal when he was struck by Tom Henderson in a rebound battle. He would miss the next two games against Stanford and Portland. This happened right before the showdown game against Houston. His cornea would again be scratched during his pro career, which subsequently caused him to wear goggles for eye protection.

Conversion to Islam and 1968 Olympic boycott

During the summer of 1968, Alcindor took the shahada twice and converted to Sunni Islam, though he did not begin publicly using his Arabic name until 1971. He boycotted the 1968 Summer Olympics by deciding not to try out for the United States Men's Olympic Basketball team, who went on to easily win the gold medal. Alcindor's decision to stay home during the 1968 Games was in protest of the unequal treatment of African-Americans in the United States.

Alcindor was one of only four players who started on three NCAA championship teams; the others all played for Wooden at UCLA: Henry Bibby, Curtis Rowe and Lynn Shackelford. At the time, the NBA did not allow college underclassmen to declare early for the draft. He completed his studies and earned a Bachelor of Arts with a major in history in 1969. In his free time, he practiced martial arts. He studied Jeet Kune Do under Bruce Lee.

Game of the Century

On January 20, 1968, Alcindor and the UCLA Bruins faced coach Guy Lewis's Houston Cougars in the first-ever nationally televised regular-season college basketball game, with 52,693 in attendance at the Astrodome. Cougar forward Elvin Hayes scored 39 points and had 15 rebounds, while Alcindor, who suffered from a scratch on his left cornea, was held to just 15 points as Houston won 71–69. The Bruins' 47-game winning streak ended in what has been called the "Game of the Century". Hayes and Alcindor had a rematch in the semi-finals of the NCAA Tournament, where UCLA, with a healthy Alcindor, defeated Houston 101–69 en route to the national championship. UCLA limited Hayes, who was averaging 37.7 points per game, to only ten points. Wooden credited his assistant, Jerry Norman, for devising the diamond-and-one defense that contained Hayes. Sports Illustrated ran a cover story on the game and used the headline: "Lew's Revenge: The Rout of Houston."

School records

As of the 2011–12 season, he still holds or shares a number of individual records at UCLA:

Highest career scoring average: 26.4;

Most career field goals: 943 (tied with Don MacLean);

Most points in a season: 870 (1967);

Highest season scoring average: 29.0 (1967);

Most field goals in a season: 346 (1967);

Most free throw attempts in a season: 274 (1967);

Most points in a single game: 61;

Most field goals in a single game: 26 (vs. Washington State, February 25, 1967).

Professional career

Milwaukee Bucks (1969–1975)

The Harlem Globetrotters offered Alcindor $1 million to play for them, but he declined and was picked first in the 1969 NBA draft by the Milwaukee Bucks, who were in only their second season of existence. The Bucks won a coin-toss with the Phoenix Suns for first pick. He was also chosen first overall in the 1969 American Basketball Association draft by the New York Nets. The Nets believed that they had the upper hand in securing Alcindor's services because he was from New York; however, when Alcindor told both the Bucks and the Nets that he would accept only one offer from each team, the Nets bid too low. Sam Gilbert negotiated the contract along with Los Angeles businessman Ralph Shapiro at no charge. After Alcindor chose the Milwaukee Bucks' offer of $1.4 million, the Nets offered a guaranteed $3.25 million. Alcindor declined the offer, saying, "A bidding war degrades the people involved. It would make me feel like a flesh peddler, and I don't want to think like that."

Alcindor's presence enabled the 1969–70 Bucks to claim second place in the NBA's Eastern Division with a 56–26 record (improved from 27–55 the previous year). On February 21, 1970, he scored 51 points in a 140-127 win over the SuperSonics. Alcindor was an instant star, ranking second in the league in scoring (28.8 ppg) and third in rebounding (14.5 rpg), for which he was awarded the title of NBA Rookie of the Year. In the series-clinching game against the 76ers, he recorded 46 points and 25 rebounds. With that, he joins Wilt Chamberlain as the only rookies to record at least 40 points and 25 rebounds in a playoff game in their rookie season. Until Jayson Tatum in 2018, Alcindor would be the only rookie to record 10 or more games of 20+ points scored during the playoffs.

The next season, the Bucks acquired All-Star guard Oscar Robertson. Milwaukee went on to record the best record in the league with 66 victories in the 1970–71 season, including a then-record 20 straight wins. Alcindor was awarded his first of six NBA Most Valuable Player Awards, along with his first scoring title (31.7 ppg). He also led the league in total points, with 2,596. In the playoffs, the Bucks went 12–2 (including a four-game sweep of the Baltimore Bullets in the NBA Finals), and won the championship, while Alcindor was named Finals MVP. He posted 27 points, 12 rebounds and 7 assists in Game 4 of the finals series. On May 1, 1971, the day after the Bucks won the NBA championship, he adopted the Muslim name Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Arabic: كريم عبد الجبار‎, Karīm Abd al-Jabbār), its translation roughly "noble one, servant of the Almighty [i.e., servant of Allah]". He had converted to Islam while at UCLA.

Abdul-Jabbar remained a dominant force for the Bucks. The following year, he repeated as scoring champion with (34.8 ppg and 2,822 total points) and was named NBA Most Valuable Player. He helped the Bucks to repeat as division leaders for four straight years. In 1974, Abdul-Jabbar won his third MVP Award in five years and was among the top five NBA players in scoring (27.0 ppg, third), rebounding (14.5 rpg, fourth), blocked shots (283, second), and field goal percentage (.539, second).

Abdul-Jabbar remained relatively injury-free throughout his NBA career, but he twice broke one of his hands. The first incident occurred during a pre-season game in 1974, when he was bumped hard and got his eye scratched; this angered him enough to punch the basket support stanchion. He returned after missing the first 16 games of the season and started to wear protective goggles. In the second incident, he broke his hand during the opening game of the 1977–78 season. Two minutes into the game, Abdul-Jabbar punched Milwaukee's Kent Benson in retaliation for an overly aggressive elbow; the punch broke Benson's jaw. As a result of the injury to his hand, Abdul-Jabbar was out for two months, and it was unnecessary for the NBA to suspend him.

Although Abdul-Jabbar always spoke well of Milwaukee and its fans, he said that being in the Midwest did not fit his cultural needs. In October 1974, he requested a trade to either the New York Knicks or Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Lakers (1975–1989)

In 1975, the Lakers acquired Abdul-Jabbar and reserve center Walt Wesley from the Bucks for center Elmore Smith, guard Brian Winters, and rookie "blue chippers" Dave Meyers and Junior Bridgeman. In the 1975–76 season, his first with the Lakers, he had a dominating season, averaging 27.7 points per game and leading the league in rebounding, blocked shots, and minutes played. His 1,111 defensive rebounds remains the NBA single-season record (defensive rebounds were not recorded prior to the 1973–74 season). He earned his fourth MVP award, but missed the post-season for the second straight year.

Once he joined the Lakers, Abdul-Jabbar began wearing his trademark goggles (he briefly ditched them in the 1979–80 season). Years of battling under NBA backboards, and being hit and scratched in the face in the process, had taken their toll on his eyes and he developed corneal erosion syndrome, where the eyes begin to dry out easily and cease to produce moisture. He missed one game in the 1986–87 season when his eyes dried out and swelled.

In the 1976–77 season, Abdul-Jabbar had another strong performance. He led the league in field goal percentage, finished second in rebounds and blocked shots, and third in points per game. He helped lead the Lakers to the best record in the NBA, and he won his record-tying fifth MVP award. In the playoffs, the Lakers beat the Golden State Warriors in the Western Conference semi-finals, setting up a confrontation with the Portland Trail Blazers. The result was a memorable matchup, pitting Abdul-Jabbar against a young, injury-free Bill Walton. Although Abdul-Jabbar dominated the series statistically, Walton and the Trail Blazers (who were experiencing their first-ever run in the playoffs) swept the Lakers, behind Walton's skillful passing and leadership.

Abdul-Jabbar's play remained strong during the next two seasons, being named to the All-NBA Second Team twice, the All-Defense First Team once, and the All-Defense Second Team once. The Lakers, however, continued to be stymied in the playoffs, being eliminated by the Seattle SuperSonics in both 1978 and 1979.

In 1979, the Lakers acquired first overall draft pick Magic Johnson. The trade and draft paved the way for a Laker dynasty as they went on to become the most dominant team of the 1980s, appearing in the finals eight times and winning five NBA championships. Individually, while Abdul-Jabbar was not the dominant center he had been in the 1970s, he experienced a number of highlight moments. Among them were his record sixth MVP award in 1980, four more All-NBA First Team designations, two more All-Defense First Team designations, the 1985 Finals MVP, and on April 5, 1984 breaking Wilt Chamberlain's record for most career points. Later in his career, he bulked up to about 265 pounds (120 kg), to be able to withstand the strain of playing the highly physical center position into his early 40s.

While in Los Angeles, Abdul-Jabbar started doing yoga in 1976 to improve his flexibility, and was notable for his physical fitness regimen. He says, "There is no way I could have played as long as I did without yoga."

In 1983, Abdul-Jabbar's house burned down. Many of his belongings, including his beloved jazz LP collection of about 3,000 albums, were destroyed. Many Lakers fans sent and brought him albums, which he found uplifting.

On June 28, 1989, Abdul-Jabbar was 42 years old when he announced that he would retire at the end of the season after 20 years in the NBA. On his "retirement tour" he received standing ovations at games, home and away and gifts ranging from a yacht that said "Captain Skyhook" to framed jerseys from his basketball career to an Afghan rug. In his biography My Life, Magic Johnson recalls that many Lakers and Celtics legends participated in Abdul-Jabbar's farewell game. Every player wore Abdul-Jabbar's trademark goggles and had to try a skyhook at least once, which led to comic results. The Lakers made the NBA Finals in each of Abdul-Jabbar's final three seasons, defeating Boston in 1987, and Detroit in 1988. The Lakers lost to the Pistons in a four-game sweep in his final season.

At the time of his retirement, Abdul-Jabbar held the record for most games played by a single player in the NBA; this would later be broken by Robert Parish. He also was the all-time record holder for most points (38,387), most field goals made (15,837), and most minutes played (57,446).

Post-NBA career

Since 2005, Abdul-Jabbar has served as a special assistant coach for the Lakers. He had been interested in coaching since his retirement, and given the influence that he exerted on the league during his playing days, he thought that the opportunity would present itself. However, during his playing years, Abdul-Jabbar had developed a reputation for being introverted and sullen. He did not speak to the press, which led to the impression that he disliked journalists. In his biography My Life, Magic Johnson recalls instances when Abdul-Jabbar brushed him off when he was a ball boy and asked him for an autograph. Abdul-Jabbar also froze out reporters who gave him a too-enthusiastic handshake or even hugged him, and he refused to stop reading the newspaper while giving an interview.

Abdul-Jabbar believes that his reticence, whether through disdain for the press or simply because of introversion, contributed to the dearth of coaching opportunities offered to him by the NBA. In his words, he said he had a mindset he could not overcome, and proceeded through his career oblivious to the effect his reticence may have had on his future coaching prospects. Abdul-Jabbar said: "I didn't understand that I also had affected people that way and that's what it was all about. I always saw it like they were trying to pry. I was way too suspicious and I paid a price for it." Since he began lobbying for a coaching position in 1995, he has managed to obtain only low-level assistant and scouting jobs in the NBA, and a head coaching position only in a minor professional league.

Abdul-Jabbar has worked as an assistant for the Los Angeles Clippers and the Seattle SuperSonics, helping mentor, among others, their young centers, Michael Olowokandi and Jerome James. Abdul-Jabbar was the head coach of the Oklahoma Storm of the United States Basketball League in 2002, leading the team to the league's championship that season, but he failed to land the head coaching position at Columbia University a year later. He then worked as a scout for the New York Knicks. Finally, on September 2, 2005, he returned to the Lakers as a special assistant to Phil Jackson to help the Lakers' centers, and in particular their young draftee Andrew Bynum. Abdul-Jabbar's influence has been credited with Bynum's emergence as a more talented NBA center. Abdul-Jabbar also served as a volunteer coach at Alchesay High School on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in Whiteriver, Arizona in 1998.

In 2016, he performed a tribute to friend Muhammad Ali along with Chance the Rapper. He is also co-author of a comic book published by Titan Comics entitled Mycroft Holmes and the Apocalypse Handbook.

Player profile

On offense, Abdul-Jabbar was a dominant low-post threat. In contrast to other low-post specialists like Wilt Chamberlain, Artis Gilmore or Shaquille O'Neal, Abdul-Jabbar was a relatively slender player, standing 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m) tall but only weighing 225 lb (102 kg) (though in his latter years the Lakers listed Abdul-Jabbar's weight as 265 pounds (120 kg)). However, he made up for his relative lack of bulk by showing textbook finesse, strength and was famous for his ambidextrous skyhook shot, which was impossible for defenders to block. It contributed to his high .559 field goal accuracy, making him the eighth most accurate scorer of all time and a feared clutch shooter. Abdul-Jabbar was also quick enough to run the Showtime fast break led by Magic Johnson and was well-conditioned, standing on the hardwood an average 36.8 minutes. In contrast to other big men, Abdul-Jabbar also could reasonably hit his free throws, finishing with a career 72% average.

Abdul-Jabbar maintained a dominant presence on defense. He was selected to the NBA All-Defensive Team eleven times. He frustrated opponents with his superior shot-blocking ability and denied an average of 2.6 shots a game. After the pounding he endured early in his career, his rebounding average fell to between six or eight a game in his latter years.

As a teammate, Abdul-Jabbar exuded natural leadership and was affectionately called "Cap" or "Captain" by his colleagues. He had an even temperament, which Riley said made him coachable. A strict fitness regime made him one of the most durable players of all time. In the NBA, his 20 seasons and 1,560 games are performances surpassed only by former Celtics center Robert Parish.

Skyhook

Abdul-Jabbar was well known for his trademark "skyhook", a hook shot in which he bent his entire body (rather than just the arm) like a straw in one fluid motion to raise the ball and then release it at the highest point of his arm's arching motion. Combined with his long arms and great height—7 ft 2 in (2.18 m)—the skyhook was difficult for a defender to block without committing a goaltending violation. It was a reliable and feared offensive weapon and contributed to his high lifetime field goal percentage of 0.559. He was adept at shooting the skyhook with either hand, which made him even more difficult to defend against, though as a right-handed player, he was stronger shooting the skyhook with his right hand than he was with his left. According to Abdul-Jabbar, he learned the move in fifth grade after practicing with the Mikan Drill and soon learned to value it, as it was "the only shot I could use that didn't get smashed back in my face".

Legacy

Abdul-Jabbar is the NBA's all-time leading scorer with 38,387 points, and he won a league-record six MVP awards. He earned six championship rings, two Finals MVP awards, 15 NBA First or Second Teams, a record 19 NBA All-Star call-ups and averaging 24.6 points, 11.2 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 2.6 blocks per game. He is ranked as the NBA's third leading all-time rebounder (17,440). He is also the third all-time in registered blocks (3,189), which is even more impressive because this stat had not been recorded until the fourth year of his career (1974).

Abdul-Jabbar combined dominance during his career peak with the longevity and sustained excellence of his later years. He credited Bruce Lee with teaching him "the discipline and spirituality of martial arts, which was greatly responsible for me being able to play competitively in the NBA for 20 years with very few injuries." After claiming his sixth and final MVP in 1980, Abdul-Jabbar continued to average above 20 points in the following six seasons, including 23 points per game in his 17th season at age 38. He made the NBA's 35th Anniversary Team, and was named one of its 50 greatest players of all time in 1996. Abdul-Jabbar is regarded as one of the best centers ever, and league experts and basketball legends frequently mentioned him when considering the greatest player of all time. Former Lakers coach Pat Riley once said, "Why judge anymore? When a man has broken records, won championships, endured tremendous criticism and responsibility, why judge? Let's toast him as the greatest player ever." Isiah Thomas remarked, "If they say the numbers don't lie, then Kareem is the greatest ever to play the game." Julius Erving in 2013 said, "In terms of players all-time, Kareem is still the number one guy. He's the guy you gotta start your franchise with." In 2015, ESPN named Abdul-Jabbar the best center in NBA history, and ranked him No. 2 behind Michael Jordan among the greatest NBA players ever. While Jordan's shots were enthralling and considered unfathomable, Abdul-Jabbar's skyhook appeared automatic, and he himself called the shot "unsexy".

NBA career statistics

Regular seasonPlayoffs

Athletic honors

Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (May 15, 1995)

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National Basketball Association:

November 16, 2012 – A statue of Abdul-Jabbar was unveiled in front of Staples Center on Chick Hearn Court, in Los Angeles.

2× Associated Press College Basketball Player of the Year (1967, 1969)

2× Oscar Robertson Trophy winner (1967, 1968)

2× UPI College Basketball Player of the Year (1967, 1969)

Three-time First Team All-American (1967–1969)

Three-time NCAA champion (1967–1969)

Most Outstanding Player in NCAA Tournament (1967–1969)

Naismith College Player of the Year (1969)

3× First-team All-Pac-8 (1967–1969)

National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame (2007)

Rookie of the Year (1970)

Six-time NBA champion (1971, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988)

NBA MVP (1971, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1980)

Sporting News NBA MVP (1971, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1980)

Finals MVP (1971, 1985)

Sports Illustrated magazine's "Sportsman of the Year" (1985)

One of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History (1996)

First player in NBA history to play 20 seasons

Ranked No.2 in ESPN's 100 greatest NBA players of all time #NBArank

Film and television

Playing in Los Angeles facilitated Abdul-Jabbar's trying his hand at acting.He made his film debut in Bruce Lee's 1972 film Game of Death, in which his character Hakim fights Billy Lo (played by Lee).

In 1980, he played co-pilot Roger Murdock in Airplane!. Abdul-Jabbar has a scene in which a little boy looks at him and remarks that he is in fact Abdul-Jabbar—spoofing the appearance of football star Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch as an airplane pilot in the 1957 drama that served as the inspiration for Airplane!, Zero Hour!. Staying in character, Abdul-Jabbar states that he is merely Roger Murdock, an airline co-pilot, but the boy continues to insist that Abdul-Jabbar is "the greatest", but that, according to his father, he doesn't "work hard on defense" and "never really tries, except during the playoffs". This causes Abdul-Jabbar's character to snap, "The hell I don't!", then grab the boy and snarl he has "[heard] that crap ever since ... UCLA", he "busts his buns every night" and the boy should tell his "old man to drag [Bill] Walton and [Bob] Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes". When Murdock loses consciousness later in the film, he collapses at the controls wearing Abdul-Jabbar's goggles and yellow Lakers' shorts.

Abdul-Jabbar has had numerous other television and film appearances, often playing himself. He has had roles in movies such as Fletch, Troop Beverly Hills and Forget Paris, and television series such as Full House, Living Single, Amen, Everybody Loves Raymond, Martin, Diff'rent Strokes (his height humorously contrasted with that of diminutive child star Gary Coleman), The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Scrubs, 21 Jump Street, Emergency!, Man from Atlantis, and New Girl. Abdul-Jabbar played a genie in a lamp in a 1984 episode of Tales from the Darkside. He also played himself on the February 10, 1994 episode of the sketch comedy television series In Living Color.

He also appeared in the television version of Stephen King's The Stand, played the Archangel of Basketball in Slam Dunk Ernest, and had a brief non-speaking cameo appearance in BASEketball. Abdul-Jabbar was also the co-executive producer of the 1994 TV film Road to Freedom: The Vernon Johns Story. He has also made appearances on The Colbert Report, in a 2006 skit called "HipHopKetball II: The ReJazzebration Remix '06" and in 2008 as a stage manager who is sent out on a mission to find Nazi gold. Abdul-Jabbar also voiced himself in a 2011 episode of The Simpsons titled "Love Is a Many Strangled Thing". He had a recurring role as himself on the NBC series Guys with Kids, which aired from 2012 to 2013. On Al Jazeera English he expressed his desire to be remembered not just as a player, but somebody who had many talents and used them.

Abdul-Jabbar was selected to appear in the 2013 ABC reality series Splash, a celebrity diving competition.

Abdul-Jabbar has also created the 2011 documentary On the Shoulders of Giants, based on the all-black basketball team New York Renaissance.

Abdul-Jabbar has also appeared with Robert Hays (Ted Striker) in a 2014 Airplane! parody commercial promoting Wisconsin tourism. In 2015, he appeared in an HBO documentary on his life, Kareem: Minority of One.

In April 2018, Abdul-Jabbar was announced as one of the celebrities who competed on season 26 of Dancing with the Stars. He was partnered with professional dancer Lindsay Arnold.

In February 2019, he appeared in season 12 episode 16 of The Big Bang Theory, "The D&D Vortex".

In September 2018, Abdul-Jabbar was announced as one of the writers for the July 2019 revival of Veronica Mars.

Abdul-Jabbar is the executive producer of the 2020 History channel's Black Patriots: Heroes of the Revolution.

Writing and activism

Abdul-Jabbar is also a best-selling author and cultural critic. His first book, his autobiography Giant Steps, was written in 1983 with co-author Peter Knobler. (The book's title is an homage to jazz great John Coltrane, referring to his album Giant Steps.) Others include On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance, co-written with Raymond Obstfeld, and Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, World War II's Forgotten Heroes, co-written with Anthony Walton, which is a history of an all-black armored unit that served with distinction in Europe.

Abdul-Jabbar has also been a regular contributor to discussions about issues of race and religion, among other topics, in national magazines and on television. He has written a regular column for Time, for example, and he appeared on Meet the Press on Sunday, January 25, 2015, to talk about a recent column, which pointed out that Islam should not be blamed for the actions of violent extremists, just as Christianity has not been blamed for the actions of violent extremists who profess Christianity. When asked about being Muslim, he said: "I don't have any misgiving about my faith. I'm very concerned about the people who claim to be Muslims that are murdering people and creating all this mayhem in the world. That is not what Islam is about, and that should not be what people think of when they think about Muslims. But it's up to all of us to do something about all of it."

In November 2014, Abdul-Jabbar published an essay in Jacobin magazine calling for just compensation for college athletes, writing, "in the name of fairness, we must bring an end to the indentured servitude of college athletes and start paying them what they are worth."

In 2007, Abdul-Jabbar participated in the national UCLA alumni commercial entitled "My Big UCLA Moment". The UCLA commercial is featured on YouTube.

On February 10, 2011, Abdul-Jabbar debuted his film On the Shoulders of Giants, documenting the tumultuous journey of the famed yet often-overlooked Harlem Renaissance professional basketball team, at Science Park High School in Newark, New Jersey. The event was simulcast live throughout the school, city, and state.

Commenting on Donald Trump's 2017 travel ban, he strongly condemned it, saying, "The absence of reason and compassion is the very definition of pure evil because it is a rejection of our sacred values, distilled from millennia of struggle."

Government appointments

Cultural ambassador

In January 2012, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that Abdul-Jabbar had accepted a position as a cultural ambassador for the United States. During the announcement press conference, Abdul-Jabbar commented on the historical legacy of African-Americans as representatives of U.S. culture: "I remember when Louis Armstrong first did it back for President Kennedy, one of my heroes. So it's nice to be following in his footsteps." As part of this role, Abdul-Jabbar has traveled to Brazil to promote education for local youths.

President's Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition

Former President Barack Obama announced in his last days of office that he has appointed Abdul-Jabbar along with Gabrielle Douglas & Carli Lloyd to the President's Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition.

Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee

In January 2017, Abdul-Jabbar was appointed to the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee by United States Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin. According to the United States Mint, Abdul-Jabbar is a keen coin collector whose interest in the life of Alexander Hamilton had led him into the hobby. He resigned in 2018 due to what the Mint described as "increasing personal obligations".

Personal life

Abdul-Jabbar met Habiba Abdul-Jabbar (born Janice Brown) at a Lakers game during his senior year at UCLA. They eventually married and together had three children: daughters Habiba and Sultana and son Kareem Jr, who played basketball at Western Kentucky after attending Valparaiso. Abdul-Jabbar and Janice divorced in 1978. He has another son, Amir, with Cheryl Pistono. Another son, Adam, made an appearance on the TV sitcom Full House with him.

Religion and name

At age 24 in 1971, he converted to Islam and became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, which means "noble one, servant of the Almighty." He was named by Hamaas Abdul Khaalis. Abdul-Jabbar purchased and donated 7700 16th Street NW, a house in Washington, D.C., for Khaalis to use as the Hanafi Madh-Hab Center. Eventually, Kareem "found that [he] disagreed with some of Hamaas' teachings about the Quran, and [they] parted ways." He then studied the Quran on his own, and “emerged from this pilgrimage with my beliefs clarified and my faith renewed.”

Abdul-Jabbar has spoken about the thinking that was behind his name change when he converted to Islam. He stated that he was "latching on to something that was part of my heritage, because many of the slaves who were brought here were Muslims. My family was brought to America by a French planter named Alcindor, who came here from Trinidad in the 18th century. My people were Yoruba, and their culture survived slavery... My father found out about that when I was a kid, and it gave me all I needed to know that, hey, I was somebody, even if nobody else knew about it. When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. And that's a terrible burden on black people, because they don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted."

In 1998, Abdul-Jabbar reached a settlement after he sued Miami Dolphins running back Karim Abdul-Jabbar (now Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar, born Sharmon Shah) because he felt Karim was sponging off the name he made famous by having the Abdul-Jabbar moniker and number 33 on his Dolphins jersey. As a result, the younger Abdul-Jabbar had to change his jersey nameplate to simply "Abdul" while playing for the Dolphins. The football player had also been an athlete at UCLA.

Health problems

Abdul-Jabbar suffers from migraines, and his use of cannabis to reduce the symptoms has had legal ramifications.

In November 2009, Abdul-Jabbar announced that he was suffering from a form of leukemia, Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. The disease was diagnosed in December 2008, but Abdul-Jabbar said his condition could be managed by taking oral medication daily, seeing his specialist every other month and having his blood analyzed regularly. He expressed in a 2009 press conference that he did not believe that the illness would stop him from leading a normal life. Abdul-Jabbar is now a spokesman for Novartis, the company that produces his cancer medication, Gleevec.

In February 2011, Abdul-Jabbar announced via Twitter that his leukemia was gone and he was "100% cancer free". A few days later, he clarified his misstatement. "You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that", Abdul-Jabbar said. "My cancer right now is at an absolute minimum".

In April 2015, Abdul-Jabbar was admitted to hospital when he was diagnosed with cardiovascular disease. Later that week, on his 68th birthday, he underwent quadruple coronary bypass surgery at the UCLA Medical Center.

Non-athletic honors

In 2011, Abdul-Jabbar was awarded the Double Helix Medal for his work in raising awareness for cancer research. Also in 2011, Abdul-Jabbar received an honorary degree from New York Institute of Technology. In late 2016, Abdul-Jabbar was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama.

Works

Books

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem; Knobler, Peter (1983). Giant Steps. New York: Bantam Books.

Kareem, with Mignon McCarthy (1990) ISBN 0-394-55927-4

Selected from Giant Steps (Writers' Voices) (1999) ISBN 0-7857-9912-5

Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African-American Achievement, with Alan Steinberg (1996) ISBN 0-688-13097-6

A Season on the Reservation: My Sojourn with the White Mountain Apaches, with Stephen Singular (2000) ISBN 0-688-17077-3

Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, World War II's Forgotten Heroes with Anthony Walton (2004) ISBN 978-0-7679-0913-6

On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance with Raymond Obstfeld (2007) ISBN 978-1-4165-3488-4

What Color Is My World? The Lost History of African American Inventors with Raymond Obstfeld (2012) ISBN 978-0-7636-4564-9

Streetball Crew Book One Sasquatch in the Paint with Raymond Obstfeld (2013) ISBN 978-1-4231-7870-5

Streetball Crew Book Two Stealing the Game with Raymond Obstfeld (2015) ISBN 978-1423178712

Mycroft Holmes with Anna Waterhouse (September 2015) ISBN 978-1-7832-9153-3

Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White with Raymond Obstfeld (2016) ISBN 978-1-6189-3171-9

Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court (2017) ISBN 978-1538760468

Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court (2017) ISBN 978-0316555388

Mycroft and Sherlock with Anna Waterhouse (October 9, 2018) ISBN 978-1785659256

Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage with Anna Waterhouse (September 24, 2019) ISBN 978-1785659300

Audio book

On the Shoulders of Giants: An Audio Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance 8-CD Set Vol. 1–4, with Avery Brooks, Jesse L. Martin, Maya Angelou, Herbie Hancock, Billy Crystal, Charles Barkley, James Worthy, Julius Erving, Jerry West, Clyde Drexler, Bill Russell, Coach John Wooden, Stanley Crouch, Quincy Jones and other chart-topping musicians, as well as legendary actors and performers such as Samuel L. Jackson. (2008) ISBN 978-0-615-18301-5

Articles

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem (April 20, 2015). "Nothing Less Than an Assassination". Ideas • Race. Time. Vol. 185 no. 14 (South Pacific ed.). p. 23.

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Stray Cats “Stray Cats” 1981. Today, April 10th, is Stray Cats’ singer and guitarist Brian Setzer’s 60th birthday (b. 1959). Stray Cats is the band’s first album; produced by Dave Edmunds (Setzer met him in London when the Stray Cats moved there from the US in ‘80), the rockabilly revival record was a huge hit in the UK, going to #6 on the album charts. It was not released in the US until after the success of their sophomore LP Built for Speed (1982, it included several of the tracks that previously appeared on Stray Cats). Stray Cats released three singles in the UK from the album: “Runaway Boys,” which went to #9, “Rock This Town” (#9), which, when released in the US off Built for Speed, went to #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in ‘82 (and was later listed by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the “500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll), and “Stray Cat Strut” (#11 in the UK). “Stray Cat Strut” was the first single released from Built For Speed in ‘82 and at first only went to #109 in the US but after the success of “Rock This Town,” they re-released it and it went to #3 in the spring of ‘83. Setzer wrote all three of those tracks but there are a few covers on Stray Cats like “Ubangi Stomp,” originally written by Charles Underwood and first recorded by Warren Smith - it would later be considered a rockabilly classic recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis, The Trashmen and several others like Alice Cooper (not exactly a rockabilly artist but he totally brings it on this track). Other rockabilly covers are “Jeannie Jeannie Jeannie” by Eddie Cochran and “My One Desire” by Dorsey Burnette and performed by Ricky Nelson.

I never got a chance to see Stray Cats play live (they pretty much broke up in ‘84, reuniting a couple of times for some tours and one-off concerts) but we did see Brian Setzer Orchestra perform their swing-revival style a long time ago at Summerfest in Milwaukee - possibly in 1996 but I really can’t remember back that far. More recently I saw Brian Setzer in Minneapolis in 2016, though not performing. He was at the Duran Duran and Chic concert I was attending and before the show a bunch of people started pointing over to some seats not that far from us (I had good seats, his were a little better) and then he stood up and waved. I guess he’s married to a woman from Minneapolis and now lives there; our friends who also live there see him out and about occasionally, looking a bit older than he does here on the LP insert from Stray Cats.

#stray cats #brian setzer #rockabilly #rockabilly revival #vinyl #80's music

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In October of 1984, TV Asahi moved a fantasy anime titled Memole’s Pointed Hat from its Saturday, 7:00 PM slot to a Sunday, 8:30 AM slot. That shift began a long and currently ongoing line of Sunday morning cartoons produced by Toei Animation for Asahi’s block.

Initially, the 8:30 – 9:00 slot was filled with anime aimed towards little girls, until the airing of Bikkuriman (Surprise Man) in late 1987, where boys’ anime continued to air until Marmalade Boy in 1994, returning the focus back to girls’ anime and has stayed that way ever since.

As all of these anime are in the same slot, animated by the same studio, they also share some of the same production crew transferred over. For example, Junichi Sato, who directed Ojamajo Doremi (Bothersome Witch Doremi) and Hugtto! PreCure, also directed Crayon Kingdom of Dreams and Maple Town Stories years prior. The PreCure series in general has had varying staff from shows that preceded it in its time slot, and continues to make several records for its 15+ years of longevity.

Here is a chronological list of anime that have aired in TV Asahi’s Sunday morning 8:30 – 9:00 time slot:

Memole’s Pointed Hat (March 3rd, 1984 – March 3rd, 1985)

Haai, Step Jun (March 10th, 1985 – January 12th, 1986)

Maple Town series (January 19th, 1986 – December 27th, 1987)

Bikkuriman series (*October 11th, 1987 – August 26th, 1990)

Magical Taluluto-kun (September 9th, 1990 – May 10th, 1992)

Super Bikkuriman (May 17th, 1992 – April 4th, 1993)

Ghost Sweeper Mikami (April 11th, 1993 – March 6th, 1994)

Marmalade Boy (March 13th, 1994 – September 3rd, 1995)

Neighborhood Story (September 10th, 1995 – September 1st, 1996)

Boys Over Flowers (September 8th, 1996 – August 31st, 1997)

Crayon Kingdom of Dreams (September 7th, 1997 – January 31st, 1999)

Ojamajo Doremi series (February 7th, 1999 – January 26th, 2003)

Tomorrow’s Nadja (February 2nd, 2003 – January 25th, 2004)

PreCure series (February 1st, 2004 – Present)

(*Aired concurrently with Maple Town, taking over once it finished airing.)

#toei animation #precure #ojamajo doremi #boys over flowers #anime #FUCK I ACCIDENTALLY WROTE 9:30 INSTEAD OF 9:00

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CLIP 2 - FROGS is one of the greatest songs ever written and has had a profound impact on me and many of my AiC friends. Today is the 23rd Anniversary of the release of the @aliceinchains #unplugged album recorded on April 10th, 1996 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Majestic Theatre for the television series @mtv Unplugged. Today @metalhammeruk published an article stating it was the greatest live album ever made. I have to believe that the majority of you all agree too! #nehistripesmusiczine #laynestaley #jerrycantrell #seankinney #mikeinez #mtvunplugged #1996 #livealbums #aliceinchains #aicfans #laynestaleyfans #lsms #lsmsaic #unolugged #friends #rememberingthegreats (at Brooklyn Academy of Music-Carey Playhouse) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0kTwk2HBVC/?igshid=1pqcu2jlg46vh

#unplugged #nehistripesmusiczine #laynestaley #jerrycantrell #seankinney #mikeinez #mtvunplugged #1996 #livealbums #aliceinchains #aicfans #laynestaleyfans #lsms #lsmsaic #unolugged #friends #rememberingthegreats

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Chicago Blackhawks Player Reviews: Erik Gustafsson

Games Played: 79 Goals: 17 Assists: 43 Points: 60 Plus\Minus: -6 PIM: 34 Game Winning Goals: 3

Summary Erik Gustafsson began the 2018-19 season with two assists in the Blackhawks’ first two games of the season against Ottawa and St. Louis. On October 18th, he scored his first goal of the season in a 4-1 loss against Arizona. He ended the month of October with 6 points with 5 assists & 1 goal.

The month of November ranged from “good” to “so-so” for Gustafsson, but on November 24th, he scored the winning goal in a 5-4 overtime win against Florida in his 100th NHL career game.

On December 2nd, he was named a healthy scratch in a 5-3 loss against Calgary. After that, Gustafsson started playing on his “A” game (although he missed two games during that month due to illness).

From December 27, 2018 to January 12, 2019, he had a career-long eight-game assist streak with 11 assists. He ended the month of December with 10 points with 4 goals & 6 assists.

On January 1, 2019, he got an assist in the 2019 NHL Winter Classic against the Boston Bruins. During the month of January, Gustafsson had two multi-point games with 2 assists in a 4-3 loss against Calgary on January 7th & in a 4-3 overtime loss against Vegas on January 12th. Although he didn’t score any goals during the month, he ended it with 9 points with 9 assists.

On February 2nd, Gustafsson had a multi-point game with 2 goals, including the game-winning goal in a 4-3 overtime win against Minnesota. On February 20th, he posted a career-best of three assists in a 5-4 overtime win against Detroit. From February 20th to February 27th, Gustafsson had two-plus assists in four straight games.

From March 18th to March 23rd, he scored a goal in three straight games. On March 18th, Gustafsson scored his 14th goal of the season (making it the most by a Blackhawks defenseman since Brent Seabrook back in the 2015-16 season) and set a career-high of seven shots on goal in a 3-2 overtime loss against Vancouver.

On March 21st, Gustafsson became the 10th defenseman in Blackhawks history to register 15 or more goals in a season (and the first Blackhawks player since Dustin Byfuglien in the 2009-10 season) in a 3-1 loss against Philadelphia as he scored his 15th goal of the season.

On March 30th, he scored his 17th goal of the season (which are the most goals scored by a Blackhawks defenseman since Dustin Byfuglien in the 2009-10 season) in a 3-2 overtime loss against Los Angeles.

On April 1st, Gustafsson had three assists in a 4-3 overtime loss against Winnipeg which matched his career high for points and assists in a game and becoming just the third Blackhawks defenseman since the 1996-97 season to record 40-plus assists in a season (joining Duncan Keith and Brian Campbell).

On April 5th, Gustafsson got his 43rd assist of the season in a 6-1 win against Dallas and become the sixth defenseman in the 2018-19 season to reach the 60-point mark.

Thoughts from my point with view The 2018-19 season was a big breakout season for Erik Gustafsson, which surprised me because I didn’t predict that Gustafsson would have such an amazing season. I guess he got the message loud and clear after he was a healthy scratch in December because after that, he started thriving big time.

Although Gustafsson played very well offensively, he struggled a lot defensively which is something that he really needs to improve on in order to make it as an elite defensemen in the NHL.

Gustafsson is signed through the 2019-20 season with a cap hit of $1.2 million next season. If he is able to improve on his defensive issues and continue to keep playing on his “A” game, I predict that he’ll most likely have another amazing season.

#chicago blackhawks #blackhawks player reviews #erik gustafsson

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The Lost Treasures

By Mir Hekmatullah Sadat From the October - December 1997 issue of Afghan Magazine | Lemar - Aftaab

[caption: Kabul Museum with no roof. Photo September 2002, photo by Farhad Azad]

At the climax of the Afghan civil war of the 1990s, it was unknown what had happened to the Kabul Museum. Mir Hekmatullah Sadat wrote about the topic.

It was the chivalry of courageous Afghans led by Shah Amanullah Ghazi (r. 1919-1929) that made Afghanistan the first Muslim nation to be liberated from the tentacles of colonialism. It was this great individual who built the foundations of the Afghan National Museum at Dar-Al-Aman (Rowland, 1976). The National Museum once covered 50,000 years of history and holds one of the worlds most significant multicultural antique collections: Persian, Indian, Chinese, Central Asian, Greco-Roman, Arab and more.

The book Ancient Art from Afghanistan makes this remark about the museum: "An institution unique in the world in being composed entirely of objects acquired, not by purchase, but by excavations in the native soil" (Rowland, 1976, p.15).

[caption: The Bost Room, Kabul Museum. This was from the Ghaznavids era, 10th Century, Helmand, looted and burned during the 1990s civil war. Photo September 2002, photo by Farhad Azad]

Rowland (1971) explains, "the Kabul collections begin with the work of the French archaeological mission in 1922...The Italian mission at Ghazni continuing the work begun by the French in 1948, has added a precious collection of objects reflecting the splendors of the great Islamic civilization of the Ghaznavids" (x-xi).

German and Russian expeditions also took part in the excavation of priceless artifacts for the Kabul Museum. The Begram collection discovered in 1939, dating from the 1st century, comprised of 1,800 lacquers, bronzes, ivories, statutes and glassware items from Ancient Rome, Greece, India, China, Egypt, and Central Asia. Begram was the site of Kapisa, the summer capital of Kanisha, King of the Kushans. Rashid (1995b) cites Nancy Dupree (Vice-Chairperson of the Society for the Preservation of Afghanistan’s Cultural Heritage) referring to the Begram collection as "The most spectacular archaeological find of the 20th century" (p.51).

According to Rashid (1995a), another excavation was the Bactrian gold discovered in 1978. A Russian expedition made the Bactrian discovery. Dupree (1996) suggests that the 21,000 gold objects dating from 100 BC to 100 AD discovered in 1978 at Tilla Teppe, northern Afghanistan were displayed in 1991 to Western Diplomats in Kabul. Rashid (1995a) adds, "The gold was then packed into crates and moved for safety to a vault in the Presidential Palace in central Kabul" (p.61).

However, today the first Afghan National Museum is just crumbled walls and mere rubble. Magnificent palaces and mansions have been destroyed; historical monuments have been shelled. Afghanistan has lost its past to war, and its future is merely ruins and devastation. Every item of state treasure has been smashed, sold, or stolen. Its people and foreign powers have so systematically raped few countries.

The warring parties in Kabul saw those treasures in the museum as ready cash, to be blasted out of their vaults and hauled away to buyers across the world. According to Rashid (1995b), "A trail of looted artifacts stretching from middlemen and antique dealers in Kabul, Peshawar, and Islamabad to provide art collectors in Tokyo, Islamabad, Jidda, Kuwait, London, and Geneva exists" (p.51).

Rashid (1995a) firmly believes that the looters knew precisely what to take, what to break and to find the arts as if they had a sketched map. Each new victor would come to the museum doors to collect their spoils. Dupree (1996) estimates, "about 70% of the museum's collections are now missing"(p.42). It is a saddening occasion for a nation, one that was so victorious against many foreign hands, to fall to the knees of international art dealers. In the process, more unreplaceable and precious antiquities and monuments are lost along the way.

The collection can never be reassembled, or even located. Clara Grissmann (American art historian) suggests: "If new artifacts are dug up, they will be disconnected from the past because the record here has gone" (Rashid, 1995a, p. 62).

This loss destroys significant periods in not only Afghanistan’s cultural heritage but also others it has come in contact with. Pottery from prehistory was bundled into bags like cheap china; ivory statues of Indian courtesans from the 2nd century AD stuffed into the pockets of gunmen and carted off to Pakistan to be sold for a song, eventually turning up on the worlds antique art markets for huge sums.

Global organizations are unsuccessful in trying to recover the looted artifacts, such a piece held by Nasurullah Babur (Pakistani official) who bought an object from the Begram collection for $100,000 (Rashid, 1995a).

In 1995, the historic pistol of Wazir Akbar Khan that was used to kill Gen. McNaughton at Bala-Hissar marking the end of the 1st Anglo-Afghan War was discovered in the hands of another Pakistan official (Arif, 1996). In November of 1996, other artifacts like Babur Shah's (founder of the Mogul dynasty) and Ahmad Shah Baba's (founder of the Afghan Nation) swords were looted and sold to high ranking foreign officials.

During September of 1997, the Pakistani newspaper NNI wrote about former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto being linked to looted art treasures from Afghanistan: Wajid Shamsul Hassan is accused of having given customs clearance to eight crates flown by PIA, without charge from Karachi to London in April last year. The contents are said to have included swords and antique guns.

According to an article in the French paper Le Monde, Benazir said to be a keen collector of antiquities, visited Peshawar last year, accompanied by an academic advisor, to authenticate relics from Afghanistan artifact amassed by Zardari (Bhutto's husband) left the country. According to a journalist who visited a close friend of Zardari found at his house several pieces, including guns and other weapons, that he thought might have come from[Afghanistan].

Not only antiquities, but contemporary arts such as Afghan music, films, photographs, and great Islamic literature were also among the destroyed. Also, ancient graves are being dug up for the jewels they contain. Loyd (1997) points out that the gravediggers go further to even selling the bones of Afghans for money obtained in Pakistan (p.30).

A civilization that once flourished from the land of the Afghans is presently not noticeable, and the future looks even grimmer. We might have won lots of wars, but we are losing the battle to preserve Afghanistan. The country has disintegrated socially, economically, and regionally but arguably as disastrous has been the destruction of its heritage. This unique heritage was due to Afghanistan’s position at the crossroads of commerce and conquest for thousands of years yielding to a culture that has transformed into a legendary myth and fantasy.

When will we speak out and say enough is enough? It is now our time to address our nation and the world. We must reassure our brothers and sisters in Afghanistan, that we will not let them become mere myth or legend. We must struggle to keep Afghanistan alive in every shape and form.

To do that, we need to get rid ourselves of the chips on our shoulder. If we, in the West, away from the bloodshed and misery in Afghanistan cannot come together for our nation; then we should not blame our people back home for perpetually fighting a stalemate war. We must set a model for our people we must unite for our people back home.

Afghan educators, elders, and students from all side of the political and social spectrum must get active in efforts to bring together the largest immigrant population of the world. Otherwise, we will succumb the same fate as the people and treasure back home.

References

Arif, G. (1996, November). "Endless Tragedy." TASSWIR(dari text), p. 13.

Dupree, N. (1996, March/April). "Museum under Siege." ARCHAEOLOGY, p.42-51.

Loyd, A. (1997, January 12). "A Market in Human Remains." THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, p.30.

Rashid, A. (1995a, September 21). "Crime of the Century." FAR EASTERN ECONOMIC REVIEW, p. 60-62.

Rashid, A. (1995b, December). "Plundered Afghan Treasures." WORLD PRESS REVIEW, p. 51.

Rowland, B. (1971). "Art in Afghanistan." London: Penguin Press.

Rowland, B. (1976). "Ancient Art from Afghanistan." New York: Amo Press.

Staff Writer. (1996, November 11). "Afghanistan: Artifacts Plundered." LOS ANGELES TIMES, A6.

Staff Writer. (1997, September). "Trial may link Bhutto to stolen Afghan treasure." NNI (Pakistan).

About Mir Hekmatullah Sadat

Mir Hekmatullah Sadat has a BA from the University of California, Irvine and an MA the California State University, Fullerton, and a Ph.D. at Claremont Graduate University.

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Happy Birthday David Tennant, born in Bathgate, West Lothian, to Essdale Helen née McLeod; and The Very Rev. Dr. Alexander McDonald on April 18th 1971.

Born as David John McDonald, he took the name Tennant as there was another actor called David McDonald. He grew up in Ralston, Renfrewshire, where his father was the local Church of Scotland Minister and former Moderator. Known for his role as tenth Doctor, in Dr Who, David was a massive fan of the series growing up and even met former Doctor Tom Baker at a book signing in Glasgow, I myself met him at a signing in Livingstone and got a jelly baby from him!.

Tennant admits to being "absurdly single-minded" in pursuing an acting career,telling his parents at the age of three that is what he was going to be. He was educated at Ralston Primary and Paisley Grammar School. He acted in school productions throughout primary and secondary school.

He went on to appear in advertisements as a young actor; his early professional work included a staging of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by the 7:84 Theatre Company, and a role as a manic-depressive in the Scottish TV drama series Takin' Over the Asylum. He also made an early television appearance in the Scottish TV sitcom Rab C Nesbitt as a transsexual barmaid called Davina. In the 1990s, he appeared in several plays at the Dundee Repertory Theatre

Tennant gained wide acclaim as a talented classical actor, performing often with the Royal Shakespeare Company; his first role for the RSC was Touchstone in a 1996 production of As You Like It. Increasing roles on television (on popular programs like Blackpool and Casanova) and in films (Stephen Fry's Bright Young Things and Mike Newell's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) raised his popularity and level of recognition, both in the United Kingdom and around the world.

A long-held dream came true in 2005, when Tennant was cast as the 10th incarnation of the lead character the Doctor in Doctor Who, his beloved TV program from childhood. The BBC-produced show also has a worldwide audience and is listed on the Guinness World Records site as the longest-running science-fiction television show in the world. As a piece of British pop-culture iconography, the show cemented Tennant's popularity. In addition to playing the lead role, the actor was given the opportunity to direct episodes.

Since leaving his role as The Doctor he has starred as DI Alec Hardy in the excellent Broadchurch, as well as many other roles.

On the big screen we wait in anticipation to see him as John Knox in the latest Mary Queen of Scots film due out later this year in the US and in January on this side of the Atlantic, David will also be in movie Bad Samaritan, about a pair of burglars stumble upon a woman being held captive in a home they intended to rob

Tennant's mother, Helen, died of cancer in 2007, inspiring his involvement as a celebrity supporter of the Association for International Cancer Research. He is married to actress Georgia Moffett, with whom he has a daughter, Olive. He also adopted Moffett's son, Tyler. Tennant is very guarded about his personal relationships and private life.

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Happy retirement Daniel!

Canadian tennis legend Daniel Nestor officially retired from tennis last Saturday after playing in his final Davis Cup match and a career spanning almost 30 years. Nestor is the most decorated Canadian tennis player in history and one of the most decorated doubles tennis players ever. He was ranked the world No. 1 doubles player for a total of 108 weeks between 2002 and 2012. With his 91 ATP doubles titles, he is currently 10th for most men’s ATP titles in Open Era history and the third most decorated among doubles players. He was the first player in doubles tennis history to win every Grand Slam and Masters Series event, the Year-End Championships and Olympic gold medal at least once in his career. In January 2016, Nestor became the first doubles player in ATP history to win 1000 matches. From 1994 to 2016, he had a streak of 23 consecutive years with at least one men’s doubles title. He was continuously ranked in the top 100 in doubles from April 1994 to April 2018, a total of 1134 consecutive weeks. He was named ATP Doubles Team of the Year in 2002 and 2004 (with Mark Knowles) and 2008 (with Nenad Zimonjić), and the ITF World Champion in doubles in 2002 (with Knowles) and in 2008 (with Zimonjić). Nestor also received the Tennis Canada male player of the year award in 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.

Nestor has won a Gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics with Sébastien Lareau, 4 ATP World Tour Finals with Mark Knowles (1), Nenad Zimonjić (2) and Max Mirnyi (1), 8 Grand Slam men’s doubles titles also with Knowles (3), Zimonjić (3) and Mirnyi (2), and 28 ATP Masters titles. In addition, he has won 4 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles with Elena Likhovtseva (1), Katarina Srebotnik (1) and Kristina Mladenovic (2). Over his career with the Canadian Davis Cup team, he has the records for most total wins (48), most doubles wins (33), most ties played (53) and most years played (25). He is also tied in third place for most singles wins (15). For his achievements, he was awarded the Davis Cup Commitment Award in 2012.

In singles, Nestor achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 58 in 1999. He has four wins over top-10 opponents, including a win over then world No. 1 Stefan Edberg in 1992, former world No. 1 players Andre Agassi and Thomas Muster in 1996, and top-5 player Thomas Enqvist in 1997. His best results in singles in Grand Slam tournaments were a fourth round appearance at the 1999 Wimbledon and third round finishes at the 1998, 1999 and 2001 Australian Open. He has also won 4 ATP Challenger titles in singles and 9 in doubles.

Nestor was appointed to the Order of Canada in November 2010. In 2011, he received a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame and was inducted at Elgin Theatre in Toronto. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by York University in August 2012. Nestor was inducted into the Canadian Tennis Hall of Fame in August 2018.

Happy retirement Daniel, thank you for all you have done for Canadian tennis. We wish you all the best in your future projects.

(Picture : © Canadian Olympic Committee)

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Sun Devil Athletics embarked on a wild journey in the 2020-21 season.

There were events changed, canceled, postponed, deleted and added at a dizzying pace. Patience was tested. Coaches and student-athletes adjusted like never before. Facilities upgrades were made (soccer/lacrosse for example).

Through it all, the teams competed. Some fall sports competed in the spring. It resulted in crazy amount of events hosted and double-headers and facilities being used at record pace.

Here is a look at all the team’s seasons with quick recaps and some tweets and numbers to remember the 2020-21 season (that was a lot more of 2021 than 2020). It was a season that saw Turner Washington and Jorinde van Klinken win NCAA titles and the department notch a 20th-place finish in the Learfield IMG Directors’ Cup.

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NCAA CHAMPIONS Outdoor Track and Field: Turner Washington (shot put, discus), Jorinde van Klinken (discus) Indoor Track and Field: Turner Washington (shot put)

HUGE week for the Sun Devils!

3?? National Titles 4?? Medals 9?? All-Americans

And BOTH the men and women’s squads finished top-10 in the country. ??#ForksUp?? #O2V https://t.co/mwwEa3i5dL

— Sun Devil TFXC (@SunDevilTFXC) June 13, 2021

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ALL-AMERICANS Baseball: Ethan Long (second-team DH by Collegiate Baseball News and First Base by Baseball America; third-team DH by NCBWA; Freshman All-American by Collegiate Baseball News and second-team Freshman All-America DH by NCBWA); Sean McLain (Freshman All-American HM by Collegiate Baseball News); Hunter Hass (Freshman All-American by Collegiate Baseball News, 3B) Softball: Maddi Hackbarth (NFCA Second-Team At-Large Catcher, Softball America Third Team) Gymnastics: Hannah Scharf (WCGA Regular Season Second-Team, all-around), Hannah Scharf (NCAA Second Team All-American, bars) Men’s Track (Indoor): Turner Washington (shot put, NCAA champion); Kentre Patterson (12th in 60m/second-team All-American) Women’s Track (Indoor): Jorinde van Klinken (third-place in shot put, first-team All-American), Hayley Rayburn (11th in pole vault/second-team All-American) Men’s Track (Outdoor): Turner Washington (NCAA champion in shot put and discuss, first-team All-America); Jamar Marshall Jr. (110H; first-team All-American); Ian Schulz (discus; second-team All-American) Women’s Track (Outdoor): Jorinde van Klinken (first-place in discus, first-team All-American; 12th in discus, second-team All-American); Alizee Minard (second place in javelin; first-team All-American); Beatrice Llano (hammer, fifth-place, first-team All-American); Shelby Moran (13th in hammer; second-team All-American) Women’s Golf: Linn Grant (Unanimous First Team), Ashley Menne (WGCA Honorable Mention) Wrestling (5): Brandon Courtney (125), Michael McGee (133), Jacori Teemer (157), Anthony Valencia (165), Cohlton Schultz (285) Water Polo (4): Bente Rogge (First Team All-American), Amira Van Buren (Second Team All-American), Chelsea Karimazondo (Honorable Mention All-American), Luca Petovary (Honorable Mention All-American). ————————————————————————————————————

INDIVIDUAL PAC-12 CHAMPIONS (9) Wrestling (5): Brandon Courtney (125), Jacori Teemer (157), Anthony Valencia (165), Kordell Norfleet (197), Cohlton Schultz (HWT) Men’s Track and Field (2): Jamar Marshall Jr. (110H), Carlan Naisant (javelin) Women’s Track and Field (2): Alizee Minard (javelin), Jorinde van Klinken (discus)

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PAC-12 TEAM CHAMPIONS WRESTLING: The No. 6 Sun Devil wrestling dominated the conference with five individual titles to win its fourth Pac-12 Championship in five years after posting a 138 tournament point total. The conference title was ASU’s 22nd all-time and 20th in the Pac-10/12 era with the help of five individual conference champion performances.

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FINAL OVERALL/PAC-12 RECORDS Baseball: 33-22/16-15 (T-5th)/NCAA Regional Beach Volleyball: 10-12/3-6 Men’s Basketball: 11-14/7-10 (9th) Women’s Basketball: 12-12/6-9 (9th)/WNIT Men’s Cross Country: 9th in Pac-12 Women’s Cross Country: 9th in Pac-12 Football: 2-2/2-2 (T-4th in Pac-12 South) Men’s Golf: T3rd/NCAA Match Play Semifinalist Women’s Golf: T5th/NCAA Match Play Quarterfinalist Gymnastics: 5-5/4-3 (4th)/NCAA Regional Finals Hockey: 7-16-3 Lacrosse: 10-6/5-4 (4th) Soccer: 9-6-2/4-4-2 (6th)/NCAA Tournament Softball: 33-16/12-9 (4th)/NCAA Tournament Men’s Swimming/Diving: DNC Women’s Swimming/Diving: DNC Men’s Tennis: 17-9/3-4 (5th)/NCAA Tournament Women’s Tennis: 15-9/6-4 (4th)/NCAA Tournament Men’s Indoor Track: T-18th Women’s Indoor Track: T-29th Men’s Outdoor Track: 9th Women’s Outdoor Track: 9th Triathlon: DNC Volleyball: 6-14/6-14 (9th) Water Polo: 14-12/6-6 (MPSF)/NCAA Tournament (T-3rd NCAA semifinalist) Wrestling: 7-0 (NCAA fourth-place/highest finish since fourth in 1994-95)

———————————————————————————————————— PAC-12 FINISHES Baseball: T-5th (16-14) Men’s Basketball: 9th (7-10) Women’s Basketball: 9th (6-9) Men’s Cross Country: 9th Women’s Cross Country: 9th Football: T-4th in Pac-12 South (2-2) Men’s Golf: 2nd (highest finish since winning title in 2008) Women’s Golf: 3rd Gymnastics: 4th (highest finish since 2006) Lacrosse: 4th (5-4) Soccer: 6th (4-4-2) Softball: 4th (12-9) Men’s Tennis: 5th (3-4) Women’s Tennis: 4th (6-4) Volleyball: 9th (6-14) Wrestling: 1st

———————————————————————————————————— NCAA FINISHES — DIRECTOR’S CUP POINTS — 20TH — 4TH IN PAC-12 — 840 TOTAL POINTS 83.00 — Water Polo: 3rd (NCAA semifinalist) 82.50 — Men’s Golf: T-3rd (NCAA Match Play semifinalist and best NCAA Championship finish since 1996 NCAA title) 80.00 — Wrestling: 4th (best NCAA finish since fourth in 1994-95) 72.75 — Women’s Golf: T-5th (NCAA match play quarterfinalist) 69.00 — Men’s Outdoor Track and Field: 9th 69.00 — Women’s Outdoor Track and Field: 9th 60.75 — Gymnastics: 13th 54.50 — Men’s Indoor Track and Field: T-18th 50.00 — Men’s Tennis: NCAA Second Round 50.00 — Women’s Tennis: NCAA Second Round 50.00 — Soccer: NCAA Second Round 43.50 — Women’s Indoor Track and Field: T-29th 37.50 — Baseball: NCAA Regional 37.50 — Softball: NCAA Regional

———————————————————————————————————— DEPARTMENT HONORS/AWARDS BILL KAJIKAWA AWARD: Remy Martin (men’s basketball), Cairo Leonard-Baker (gymnastics)/Olivia Mehaffey (women’s golf) TOM HANSEN AWARD: Nate Ponwith (men’s tennis), Olivia Mehaffey (women’s golf) FRANK KUSH AWARD: Todd Clapper (water polo)

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BASEBALL TRACY SMITH/SEVENTH SEASON NAMED HEAD COACH JUNE 24, 2014 33-22 OVERALL/16-14 PAC-12 (T-5TH)/ POSTSEASON HONORS RAY ANDERSON ANNOUNCES LEADERSHIP CHANGE WITH ASU BASEBALL Program made its 41st NCAA postseason appearance– sixth most in NCAA history — as the No. 2 seed in Austin with the youngest team in the tournament field, as it went 11-4 in weekend series on the year and won five of its last second weekend matchups. Drew Swift became the Sun Devil to be named the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year since the league introduced the award in 2013, while Ethan Long became the became the 129th All-American in program history, earning a second-team nod from Collegiate Baseball News as a Designated Hitter. Long is just the eighth Sun Devil in school history to earn an All-America accolade as a freshman, joining Mike Kelly (1989), Casey Myers (1998), Kendall Carter (1981), Phil Lowery (1996), Mike Leake (2007), Ryan Kellogg (2013) and Spencer Torkelson (2018). ASU led the nation in double plays (57) turned during the regular season.

Over 30 former student-athletes, coaches and staff members get things rolling today. #MLBOpeningDay

We are #MLBU. https://t.co/yTlbdye3EN pic.twitter.com/CeNC6XSjwJ

— Sun Devil Baseball (@ASU_Baseball) April 1, 2021

———————————————————————————————————— MEN’S BASKETBALL BOBBY HURLEY/SIXTH SEASON NAMED HEAD COACH APRIL 8, 2015 11-14 OVERALL/7-10 PAC-12 (9TH) Senior Remy Martin earned All-Pac-12 first-team honors in 2020-21 and 2019-20 and was a second-team pick in 2018-19, just the second Sun Devil to earn All-Pac-12 honors three times, joining Ike Diogu (2003-05). He finished his career on the ASU charts sixth in points (1,754), second in assists (466), 10th in field goals (591), third in free throws made (396), ninth in three-pointers attempted (524) and eighth in steals (151). Kimani Lawrence posted 21 points and 20 rebounds on Feb. 25 vs. Washington, the first 20/20 outing by a Sun Devil since Nov. 19, 1997, when Mike Batiste had 36/20 vs. Wagner, while the 21 rebounds is second-best by a Sun Devil in a Pac-12 game. Coach Hurley became just the fourth Sun Devil coach to notch 100 ASU wins when ASU beat Oregon State on Feb. 14. In the past two seasons ASU’s 17-7 (.708) record in two-possession games is third-best in the Pac-12. ASU led the league in turnover margin (+4.2), while Remy Martin became the sixth Sun Devil (seven times) to lead the Pac-12 in scoring with his 19.3 points per game mark.

SUN DEVIL PAC-12 SCORING LEADERS 19.3–Remy Martin (2020-21) 20.1–James Harden (2008-09) 22.6–Ike Diogu (2004-05) 22.8–Ike Diogu (2003-04) 23.0–Eddie House (1999-00) 20.8–Jeremy Veal (1997-98) 21.6–Byron Scott (1982-83)

———————————————————————————————————— WOMEN’S BASKETBALL CHARLI TURNER THORNE/24TH SEASON NAMED HEAD COACH JUNE 21, 1996 12-12 OVERALL/6-9 PAC-12 (9TH) In an abbreviated season, the Sun Devils (12-12, 6-9 Pac-12) still earned their seventh consecutive postseason berth – 20th in 21 seasons – in 2020-21. They finished among the Top 25 in the nation in scoring defense (23rd/56.7 ppg) and offensive rebounds per game (24th/15.1 rpg). It was the third time in six years ASU finished among the top 25 in scoring defense and the second straight season it finished in the Top 25 in offensive rebounds. ASU captured four wins over NCAA Tournament teams, including a 66-64 OT win over then-No. 9 and eventual national runner-up Arizona, while losing three other contests to eventual NCAA Tournament teams by an average of just five points with eventual national champion Stanford and UCLA (twice) included in that group. ASU’s 10 3-point FGs and 55.6 3-point FG percentage vs. Arizona were both season highs and were both opponent highs for Arizona in 2021. UCLA’s 19 turnovers vs. ASU on Dec. 6, tied the Bruins season high in 2020-21. Stanford’s four 3-pointers vs. ASU on Jan. 3 were tied for the second-fewest number of triples by Stanford in 2020-21 while its 21.1 3-point FG percentage vs. ASU was its second lowest percentage of the season. Including its 5-0 record this season, ASU is 73-13 (.847) in non-conference, regular season games since 2013. It is also 101-24 (.808) in home games the last eight seasons. ASU has won its last 30 home games vs. non-conference opponents in Desert Financial Arena. Junior Taya Hanson (All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention – Coaches/Pac-12 Defense Honorable Mention – Coaches) led ASU in scoring (12.6 ppg), 3-pointers (62), steals (1.4 spg) and free throw percentage (84.8), was third in rebounding (4.3 rpg) and fourth in assists (1.4 apg). Hanson averaged 2.58 3-pointers per game, the most ever by a Sun Devil. Hanson scored a career-high 21 points vs. Cal (Jan. 1), a contest in which she tied the single-game school record with seven 3-pointers. Freshman Jaddan Simmons averaged 10.8 ppg, becoming the first ASU freshman to average double figures in scoring since Jill Noe in 2003. In ASU’s win over USC (Dec. 4), Simmons became the first ASU freshman to score 20 or more points since Dymond Simon scored 24 in a win over Washington State on Jan. 4, 2007. She named the Pac-12 Freshman of the Week after scoring 11 of her 15 points over the last 9:20 (last 4:20 of regulation and 5:00 of OT) of ASU’s 66-64 upset of then-No. 9 Arizona.

———————————————————————————————————— BEACH VOLLEYBALL BRAD KEENAN/FIFTH SEASON NAMED HEAD COACH MAY 13, 2016 10-12/3-6 IN PAC-12 SAMANTHA PLASTER NAMED PAC-12 SCHOLAR-ATHLETE OF THE YEAR In Brad Keenan‘s fifth season as head coach, ASU had an overall record of 10-12. With COVID-19 restrictions, the team played fewer duals than usual seasons. Of the 10 wins, four were sweeps. The Sand Devils had a 4-7 Pac-12 record, picking up wins over Washington, Utah and Cal. The season ended at the Pac-12 Championships where Arizona State was able to earn one victory, edging out a 3-2 win over Washington. Three seniors left their mark on Arizona State, moving up in the record book. Katelyn Carballo ended her sand career with 67 wins, breaking the record for career individual wins at Arizona State. Two more broke the 50 wins mark: Samantha Plaster reaching 57 wins to put her in fourth place for career individual wins and Cierra Flood getting 51 wins to tie for sixth. Flood is set to return for her fifth year in 2022. Flood and Sarah Waters teamed up together in every dual, playing primarily at the No. 3 spot. The two finished with a 12-9 overall record which was the most wins earned this season. Carballo and Lexi Sweeney played at the No. 1 spot in every dual this season, earning an 11-11 record. Along with Flood and Waters, these pairs were the only two to play together in every dual.

Broken records, upsets and big awards; 2021 had many highlights for the Sand Devils! ??

Read the season recap here >> https://t.co/cgKQL2vRRz pic.twitter.com/QcfLzejyLi

— Sun Devil Beach VB (@SunDevilBeachVB) June 3, 2021

———————————————————————————————————— MEN’S AND WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY PATRICK HENNER/FIRST SEASON NAMED HEAD COACH OCTOBER. 8, 2020 The team ran two regular season races and competed in the the Pac-12 Championships. Megan Reniewicki finished top-5 twice, and Fearghal Curtin finished top-3 once. Both teams took ninth at the Pac-12 Championships. Top men’s finisher was Vincent “Vinny” Mauri who took 22nd in a personal best 23:35.3. Top women’s finisher was Megan Reniewicki who took 41st in 20:53.70.

———————————————————————————————————— FOOTBALL HERM EDWARDS/THIRD SEASON NAMED HEAD COACH DEC. 4, 2017 2-2 OVERALL/2-2 PAC-12 SOUTH (T-4TH) A season that started full of promise was shortened to the pandemic, but a big-time finish put a smile on Sun Devil faces everywhere highlighted by a 70-7 December 11 win at Arizona, the program’s fourth straight win in the series. ASU ended the season with a 46-33 win at Corvallis, where it had lost six of previous seven. The Sun Devils scored 116 points in back-to-back games, the most in a two-game span in the same season since 1973, with 70 at Arizona and 46 at Corvallis. ASU had two touchdowns in the first minute at Arizona and recorded a school record 10 touchdowns for the second-most points in program history and most in the Pac-12 era. Rachaad White earned the Bob Moran Territorial Cup Most Valuable Player award behind his 133-yard, three-touchdown effort that was highlighted by a 93-yard touchdown run – tied for the fifth-longest touchdown rush in program history.

———————————————————————————————————— MEN’S GOLF MATT THURMOND/FIFTH SEASON NAMED HEAD COACH JULY 25, 2016 FINISHED SECOND IN PAC-12 NCAA FINISH: T-3RD AT NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP (MATCH PLAY SEMIFINALIST) Team — seeded tenth entering the tournament — earned the No. 1 seed at the NCAA Championships for the first time in school history (lost two others in 2009 and 2013) and won its first NCAA match play contest over North Carolina before falling to top-ranked Oklahoma in the semifinals. Earned its 56th trip the NCAA Championship, fourth-best all-time, and has now made the finals in 16 of the past 19 chances and 34 of the past 37. Won team titles at the Ameri Invitational (Feb. 2-4), the Goodwin (March 25-27) and also earned a Copper Cup match play win vs. Arizona to start the season in January after not competing in the fall. Placed second in four other tournaments (Southwestern Invitational, Thunderbird Collegiate, Pac-12 Championship and the NCAA Albuquerque Regional). Sophomore David Puig posted seven top-10 finishes and had wins at the Southwestern Invitational and Amer Ari Intercollegiate and earned Pac-12 Newcomer of the Year. Both Ryggs Johnston (third) and Cameron Sisk (T-8th) and Chun An Yu (15th) all earned NCAA top-10 finishes. The tied for third finish at the NCAAs was its best NCAA finish since it won the title in 1996. How good was Ryggs Johnston’s 7-under 63 in the second round of the NCAA Championships? It is the second-best NCAA Championship round by a Sun Devil, and those sandwiched around him are named Rahm and Mickelson. Only one other player had a 64 (Wake Forest’s Parker Gillam) and only one had a 65 (Oklahoma State’s Bo Jin) in the whole tournament. Team finished sixth in the final Golfweek rankings with a 154-19-2 head-to-head record including 42-15 vs. the top-25 and was fifth in the final Golfstat rankings.

———————————————————————————————————— WOMEN’S GOLF MISSY FARR-KAYE/SIXTH SEASON NAMED HEAD COACH JUNE 26, 2015 FINISHED THIRD IN PAC-12 NCAA FINISH: T-5TH AT NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP (MATCH PLAY QUARTERFINALIST) Sun Devil Women’s Golf served as host of the 2021 NCAA Women’s Golf Championships, making match play before eventually finishing in a tie for fifth. The program advanced to the NCAA Championship for the 36th time after finishing second in the Columbus Regional, the 28th consecutive year the team has qualified for a regional. Linn Grant received unanimous First Team All-American honors and was one of three finalist for the ANNIKA Award, given to the top female collegiate golfer. She became just the second Sun Devil (Brandie Burton) to win four straight tournaments, starting the year off with three consecutive victories. Grant was ranked No. 1 by Golfstat heading into the NCAA Tournament, a first by a Sun Devil in the Golfstat-era. Freshman Ashley Menne also recieved honorable meniton All-American honors after a spectacular freshman season in Tempe. She finished fourth at the NCAA Championship, not only the highest finishing Sun Devil, but the best finish for the program since Monica Vaughn won the title in 2017. Menne also won her matchup in the quarterfinals of match play. Four-time All-American Olivia Mehaffey’s career came to an end, but she provided even more memories for Sun Devil Nation. Mehaffey led the comeback charge in the Clover Cup, as Arizona State made up six strokes on the final day to surpass Arizona and earn the team title. Mehaffey shot a career-best 62 (-10), setting the new program record by two strokes. She finishes her career in the Top-25 in NCAA history in career rounds played, rounds under par, and rounds in the 60s. Alessandra Fanali was one of two Sun Devils named to the Pac-12 All-Conference First Team. Alexandra Forsterling landed on the All-Conference Second Team, giving Arizona State five of the 20 total honorees. Head Coach Missy Farr-Kaye was a finalist for National Coach of the Year, leading her Sun Devils to their second match play appearance and the second Top-5 finish of her tenure.

——————————————————————————————————– GYMNASTICS JAY SANTOS/FIFTH SEASON NAMED HEAD COACH MAY 27, 2016 5-5 OVERALL/3-3 PAC-12 NCAA FINISH: 3RD AT NCAA REGIONAL FINALS The Gym Devils finished with a 5-5 record, wrapping up the year ranked No. 9 on Road to Nationals, the best finish since 2006. The team finished the season with an NQS of 197.088 and finished in fourth in the Pac-12 regular season standings as well as in the Pac-12 Championship. It was the first time since 2006 the Sun Devils had placed in the top four at the year-end conference meet and the first time the team qualified for the night session. The Gym Devils scored 196.000-plus in all but two meets this season, including a streak of ten meets in a row reaching that mark to finish the season. Four of those scores are in the top 16 for team scores in the ASU record book. There were four scores of 197.00-plus in a single season or the first time since 2004. The best team score was 197.600, which Arizona State scored in the NCAA Regional Finals for the ninth best score in program history and the best postseason score the Sun Devils have ever earned.

The 2021 season was one for the record books! Can’t wait to keep growing in 2022 ??

Read the season recap here >> https://t.co/tvisrOnXC7 pic.twitter.com/44f2tLjuTi

— Sun Devil Gymnastics (@SunDevilGym) May 13, 2021

———————————————————————————————————— HOCKEY GREG POWERS/SIXTH SEASON NAMED HEAD COACH NOV. 18, 2014 7-16-3 OVERALL

The Sun Devil Hockey program played through an unprecedented all-road schedule in 2020-21 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As Division I Ice Hockey programs shifted to conference-only schedules in response to the pandemic, Sun Devil Hockey created a partnership with the Big Ten Conference. The newfound agreement for the 2020-21 season allowed ASU to embark on one of the most extraordinary and unparalleled seasons of college hockey in which the Sun Devils played the entire season on the road, solely against Big Ten teams. The Sun Devils traveled a total of 15, 519 miles, and compiled 74 total travel days, including 58 out of their first 70 days on the road. Despite the odds, the Sun Devils concluded the season with zero forced cancellations. While on the road, the program and Sun Devil Athletics pushed forward on the build of its Multi-Purpose Arena as part of the Novus Innovation Corridor project. The arena will house men’s ice hockey, wrestling, and women’s gymnastics and is set to be completed in Fall 2022.

?15,519 miles traveled ?74 total travel days ?58 of first 70 days on road ?0 Forced Cancellations

Thank you @B1GHockey for including us! ?? https://t.co/gneUcAzM6R

— Sun Devil Hockey (@SunDevilHockey) March 6, 2021

———————————————————————————————————— LACROSSE TIM McCORMACK/SECOND SEASON NAMED HEAD COACH JUNE 12, 2019 10-6 OVERALL/5-4 PAC-12 (4TH) Pac-12 Coach of the Year Tim McCormack joined Sun Devil Wrestling’s Zeke Jones as the only two coaches from Arizona State to take home conference coach of the year honors. He did so after leading Sun Devil Lacrosse to their best season in program history, elevating the team to new heights. Coach McCormack’s team set program records in wins (10), conference wins (5), and earned their first Pac-12 Conference Tournament victory. Under his tutelage, attacker Carley Adams became the first player in program history to earn IWLCA All-Region honors. Adams was also a First Team Pac-12 All-Conference selection, one of three Sun Devils to accomplish the feat. Six of the 24 players to earn a spot on an All-Conference team were from Arizona State, a reflection of the depth of the roster. The Sun Devils tied Pac-12 Regular Season and Tournament Champion Stanford for most selections in the conference. During the season, 10 of the 20 possible Pac-12 Player of the Week honors were from the Maroon & Gold. A couple of legends wrapped up their career in style, as attacker Kerri Clayton and goalkeeper Berkeley Bonneau had their best seasons yet. The duo were leaders of their units, helping the Sun Devils finish in the Top-10 in several major statistical categories. ASU led the nation with 9.75 assists/game, finished third with 22.06 ground balls/game, boasted the sixth-best scoring offense (16.4 goals/game), and ranked in the Top-10 with 16.69 draw controls/game. Several key players return from a team that knocked off a ranked team for the first time, picked up the program’s first victories over USC and Colorado, while also sweeping three games in one season from a Pac-12 opponent (Cal). Pac-12 assist leader attacker Emily Glagolev, the lone freshman on the Pac-12 First Team defender Bella Gaspar, and two-time team captain Maddy Hunter will be back in Tempe. Combined with another exciting recruiting class and a completed field renovation project, the future of Sun Devil Lacrosse is bright.

———————————————————————————————————— SOCCER GRAHAM WINKWORTH/FOURTH SEASON NAMED HEAD COACH NOV. 29, 2016 9-6-2 OVERALL/4-4-2 PAC-12 (6TH) The Sun Devils had their best season under fourth-year head coach Graham Winkworth, finishing the regular season with an 8-5-2 record and making a postseason run for the first time since 2014 and eighth in school history. ASU made it to the second round of the tournament to become the fifth ASU soccer team to advance to that stage in the NCAA Tournament. Winkworth and company boasted an undefeated non-conference slate, including an overtime comeback thriller at Grand Canyon to protect the win-streak. ASU continued its unbeaten streak through eight games and notched wins against UCLA, Stanford, and USC to become only the fourth team in history to beat all three programs in a single season. With a 4-4-2 record in Pac-12 Conference play, the Sun Devils finished in the middle of the table after being picked to finish last in the preseason poll. The Sun Devils scored 28 goals in 17 games, second-most in the Pac-12 Conference. ASU boasted one of the strongest defensive lines in the Pac-12, conceding only 16 goals and forcing ASU’s keepers to make only 57 saves – fifth-fewest amongst Conference competitors.

Good times were had.. Let’s keep ’em rolling into Fall 2021! ??https://t.co/1cpAN8YZpV

— Sun Devil Soccer (@SunDevilSoccer) June 10, 2021

———————————————————————————————————— SOFTBALL TRISHA FORD/FIFTH SEASON NAMED HEAD COACH JUNE 15, 2016 33-16 OVERALL/12-9 PAC-12 (4TH) Fifth-year head coach Trisha Ford‘s squad made its 16th consecutive NCAA postseason appearance before falling short in the Tempe Regional. The Sun Devils collected a Pac-12 Conference series sweep over Arizona, their first against since 2012.

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» Series wins vs 3 Top-10 teams (UW, UofA, Oregon) » Conference sweep vs UofA » Quality wins vs Baylor, Iowa State, CSUF (2) » 4th in the #Pac12 » We hit a lot of home runs » Scored 60 runs on the road in a weekend pic.twitter.com/HSskjXVmwc

— Sun Devil Softball (@ASUSoftball) May 16, 2021

———————————————————————————————————— MEN’S AND WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING BOB BOWMAN/SIXTH SEASON (SIXTH YEAR) NAMED HEAD COACH APRIL 24, 2015 Coach Bowman and the squad decided to redshirt the 2020-21 season and not compete due to the unpredictability of COVID and the Tokyo Olympics heavy on everyone’s minds.

———————————————————————————————————— MEN’S TENNIS MATT HILL/FOURTH SEASON (FIFTH YEAR) NAMED HEAD COACH JUNE 29, 2016 17-9 OVERALL/3-4 IN PAC-12 (5TH)

Finished the year 17-9 (3-4 Pac-12) and ranked 20th by Oracle/ITA as Nathan Ponwith reached the NCAA singles championship. Ponwith earned first-team All-Conference honors, won the ITA Southwest Region’s Most Improved Senior Award, and won the overall ITA Most Improved Senior award. ASU advanced to the championship match of the Pac-12 Tournament for the first time and picked up its first win over UCLA since reinstatement in the process. After earning a bid to the TCU regional, ASU beat Wichita State 4-3 before falling 4-1 to TCU in the second round. It’s the second time in the Matt Hill era the Sun Devils have reached round two. Team earned six wins over ranked opponents and its recruiting class is No. 22 (per Tennis Recruiting Network).

———————————————————————————————————— WOMEN’S TENNIS SHEILA McINERNEY/37th SEASON NAMED HEAD COACH AUGUST 16, 1984 15-9 OVERALL/6-3 IN PAC-12 (4TH)

Finished No. 31 and posted two wins over ranked opponents as ASU made it to the second round of the Pac-12 tournament and the second round of the NCAA Regionals. Ilze Hattingh reached the second round of the NCAA Singles Championship and was awarded second-team All-Conference honors. The then-No. 33 Sun Devils shutout unranked Arizona 4-0 on the road and also have the No. 5 recruiting class per Tennis Recruiting Network. ———————————————————————————————————— MEN’S AND WOMEN’S INDOOR TRACK DION MILLER/SECOND SEASON NAMED HEAD COACH MAY 15, 2019 NCAA FINISHES: MEN T-18/WOMEN T-29 The women’s track and field team tied for 29th at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Arkansas with six points, while the men tied for 18th with 10 points. Jorinde Van Klinken took third in the shot (17.56m/57-7.5) for the women’s six points, while Turner Washington’s national title in the shot put (21.36m/70-1) earned all 10 of the men’s points. The MPSF Championships were not held due to health precautions. The men’s side reached a season-best 15th national ranking and finished the year at 18th. Women reached at season-best 29th in the nation in the final ranking. Team sent five athletes to the NCAA Indoor Championships. Turner Washington broke the NCAA indoor shot put record on Feb. 13, beating the previous record by almost two inches. Washington earned USTFCCCA West Regional Field Athlete of the Year honors for his indoor performances, and is on the The Bowerman watchlist for the nation’s top track and field athletes. Hayley Rayburn broke the ASU indoor pole vault record Feb. 12, a mark that hadn’t been passed since 2008. Jamar Marshall Jr and Kentre Patterson both broke the ASU indoor 60mH record at the same time on Feb. 27 when they competed in the Air Force’s Championships at the Peak, beating out Tony Galaviz’ 19-year-old record. Dylan James lept to ninth all-time at ASU at the Air Force meet, the first meet of his ASU career, when he notched 7.34m in the triple jump, finishing third.

———————————————————————————————————— MEN’S AND WOMEN’S OUTDOOR TRACK DION MILLER/SECOND SEASON NAMED HEAD COACH MAY 15, 2019 NCAA FINISHES: MEN Ninth /WOMEN Ninth It was a week to remember for Arizona State track and field. Three national titles were earned, six Sun Devils placed in the top-5, seven claimed All-America honors, and both the men and women finished top-10. Both ASU’s men and women’s squads finished ninth, the men claiming 24 points and the women earning 22. This marks the first time the men have been top-10 since 2010 (4th, 79 points) and the third time in the last four years that the women have been in the top-10. Turner Washington and Jorinde van Klinken both earned USTFCCCA West Region Field Athlete of the Year awards, and van Klinken also won Pac-12 Women’s Field Athlete of the Year alongside her Pac-12 discus title. Jamar Marshall Jr, Kentre Patterson, and Turner Washington will all compete in the USATF Team Trials in Hayward Field, and van Klinken is Olympic-bound for Tokyo 2021 for The Netherlands.

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— Sun Devil TFXC (@SunDevilTFXC) June 13, 2021

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Just three times in men’s @NCAATrackField history has someone won the indoor shot, outdoor shot and discus titles all in the same season:

– John Godina 1995, UCLA – Ryan Whiting 2010, ASU – Turner Washington 2021, ASU#ForksUp?? pic.twitter.com/iv5BodfXAi

— Sun Devil TFXC (@SunDevilTFXC) June 12, 2021

NCAA Championships Results Turner Washington – Shot, 21.10m/69-2.75 – National title, PR* Turner Washington – discus, 63.42m/208 – National title* Jorinde van Klinken – discus, 65.01m/213-3 – National title, collegiate PR, meet record* Alizee Minard – javelin, 57.91m/190 – Silver medal, PR, Program Record* Beatrice Llano – hammer, 65.90m/216-2 – 5th, season’s best* Jamar Marshall Jr. – 110H semi final, 13.57, 4th – Q Jamar Marshall Jr. – 110H final, 13.53, 5th* Shelby Moran – hammer, 66.01m/216-7 – 13th, PR^ Carlan Naisant – javelin, 64.83m/212-8, 19th! Ian Schulz – discus, 56.25m/184-6, 10th^ Jorinde van Klinken – shot, 16.87m/55-4.25 – 12th^ * = First Team All-American ^ = Second Team All-American ! = honorable mention

———————————————————————————————————— TRIATHLON CLIFF ENGLISH/FIFTH YEAR NAMED HEAD COACH NOV. 13, 2015 The team did not compete in the fall of 2020 due to uncertainty with COVID-19. Coach English will enter his fifth season and sixth year at ASU as Tempe will again host the national championships in early November.

———————————————————————————————————— VOLLEYBALL SANJA TOMASEVIC/FOURTH SEASON NAMED HEAD COACH DEC. 21, 2016 6-14 OVERALL/6-14 PAC-12 (9th) In the fourth season under head coach Sanja Tomasevic, the Sun Devils competed in 20 matches, all against Pac-12 opponents. The team went 6-14 on the year and finished in ninth place in the conference. The roster was made up of primarily underclassmen (82 percent), eight student-athletes making their Division I NCAA volleyball debut. Arizona State earned two wins over ranked opponents in the 2020-21 season. ASU opened the season with a win at No. 8 Washington, who would go on to make it to the NCAA Final Four. The Sun Devils swept the Huskies in Seattle for the first win at UW since 2012. Towards the end of the season, the Sun Devils also upset the No. 16 Oregon Ducks in Tempe, another NCAA Tournament team that made it to the Sweet Sixteen. Full Season Recap

The COVID-19 pandemic has provided its fair share of obstacles to the collegiate world over the past year, and the Sun Devil volleyball team is no exception.

Read about how we are making the most of our season in this feature story >> https://t.co/3wxTZfuY1H pic.twitter.com/FiGNPcDALM

— Sun Devil Volleyball (@SunDevilVB) March 5, 2021

———————————————————————————————————— WATER POLO TODD CLAPPER/16th SEASON NAMED HEAD COACH AUGUST 3, 2005 14-12 OVERALL/6-6 IN MPSF Water polo made its third appearance in the NCAA Championship after ending the regular season 13-11. ASU beat the Michigan in the first round to advance to the final four, but eventually lost to the Championship squad, USC although ASU held the Trojans to their lowest scoring outing of the Tournament. Among those 13 wins were top-five upsets that will go down as some of the top wins at Mona Plummer. The Sun Devils upset No. 2 Stanford at home to open up MPSF play with a 10-9 win, and again against No. 2 UCLA at home with an 8-6 victory just a month later. This was the first time since 2014 that the Sun Devils had more than one upset of a top-five team in a single season. The Sun Devils clinched that at large bid because of their strong Mountain Pacific Sport Federation conference play, including upsetting fifth-seeded Cal at home in the MSPF Championship, and ultimately finishing fourth in the conference. Bente Rogge, Amira Van Buren, Luca Petovary and Chelsea Karimazondo all earned ACWPCC All-American honors. Full Season Recap

Upsets, scoring streaks, and record breakers, and more ??

Our 2021 season recap! ????https://t.co/cDWfkh6e8V

— Sun Devil Water Polo (@SunDevilWP) July 2, 2021

———————————————————————————————————— WRESTLING ZEKE JONES/SEVENTH SEASON NAMED HEAD COACH AUGUST 9, 2014 7-0 OVERALL/PAC-12 CHAMPIONS CLICK HERE FOR POSTSEASON HISTORY NCAA FINISH: T-3rd (NCAA semifinals)

For the first time since the 1994-95 season, head coach Zeke Jones led the Sun Devils to their highest finish at NCAA Championships — fourth — while also producing five All-Americans on the season, Brandon Courtney (125), Michael McGee (133), Jacori Teemer (157), Anthony Valencia (165) and Cohlton Schultz (HWT). In the shortened season, the Sun Devils went undefeated for the first time in program history (7-0) before winning their 22nd all-time Pac-12 Championship title.Five Sun Devils – Brandon Courtney, Jacori Teemer,Anthony Valencia, Kordell Norfleet (197) and Cohlton Schultz finished first place in their weight class. Valencia’s fourth individual title places him in the history books forever as he is the fourth Sun Devil to accomplish the feat (Eric Larkin, Markus Mollica and Ryan Bader). At 2021 NCAA Championships, five Sun Devils placed on the podium for their respective weight classes with Brandon Courtney concluding the Tournament as the national runner-up at 125 lbs. Off the mat, the program had one of its most academically successful seasons with 16 Sun Devils being named to Pac-12 Fall and Winter Honor Roll.

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The Van Halen Timeline

Mostly Taken from Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga by Ian Christe, everything after March 2007 is from my own research

October 13th, 1947: Sammy Hagar born in Monterey, California

May 8th, 1953: Alexander Arthur van Halen born in Holland

October 10th, 1953: David Lee Roth born in Bloomington, Indiana

June 20th, 1954: Michael Anthony Sobolewski born in Chicago, Illinois

January 26th, 1955: Edward Lodwijk van Halen born in Holland

July 26th, 1961: Gary Cherone born in Malden, Massachusetts

Winter 1962: Jan van Halen emigrates with his family to California

1967: Edward gets $100 Teisco Del Ray guitar from Sears

1971: Alex and Eddie Van Halen form the Trojan Rubber Company

Autumn 1973: David Lee Roth joins the Van Halen brothers in Mammoth

1973: Sammy Hagar joins Montrose, records two albums, and tours heavily

Spring 1974: Mike Sobolewski joins Van Halen, becomes Michael Anthony

May 1976: Gene Simmons “discovers” Van Halen at the Starwood, finances unsuccessful demo tape

1976: Sammy Hagar leaves Montrose, launches solo career

May 1977: Ted Templeton rediscovers Van Halen, signs band to Warner Bros.

February 10th, 1978: Release of Van Halen; leading to tours with Journey, then Black Sabbath

October 10th, 1978: Van Halen goes platinum

March 23rd, 1979: Release of Van Halen II; first headlining tour runs through October

March 26th, 1980: Release of Women and Children First

August 29th, 1980: Eddie Van Halen meets Valerie Bertinelli

April 11th, 1981: Eddie marries Valerie

April 29th, 1981: Release of Fair Warning

April 14th, 1982: Release of Diver Down

May 29th, 1983: Van Halen paid $1.5 million to play for four hundred thousand people at US Festival ‘83

January 4th, 1984: Release of 1984, featuring band’s first number 1 singe, “Jump”

September 2nd, 1984: Final show by classic lineup in Nuremberg, Germany

December 31st, 1984: David Lee Roth releases Crazy from the Heat

1985: Cherone’s band the Dream wins MTV’s Basement Tapes

April 1985: David Lee Roth exits Van Halen

September 1985: Eddie Van Halen announces at Farm Aid that Sammy Hagar is Van Halen’s new lead singer

November 19th, 1985: Sammy Hagar’s ninth studio album, VOA, becomes his first platinum-selling disc

March 24th, 1986: Release date of 5150; first “Van Hagar” album sells triple platinum by October

July 4th, 1986: Release of David Lee Roth’s platinum solo debut, Eat ‘Em and Smile

December 1986: Jan Van Halen dies

May 24th, 1988: Release of OU812, followed shortly by Roth’s Skyscraper

Summer 1988: Eddie attempts sobriety while Van Halen tours with Metallica, Scorpions, and Dokken

February 1989: Tone Lōc;s “Wild Thing” reaches number 2, a rap single that samples Van Halen’s “Jamie’s Cryin”

April 22nd, 1990: Van Halen performs at opening of Cabo Wabo Cantina in Mexico

June 8th, 1990: Extreme’s “More than Words” single hits number 1

February 2nd, 1991: Release of David Lee Roth’s A Little Ain’t Enough, his last gold record as a solo artist

March 16th, 1991: Eddie’s son Wolfgang Van Halen born

June 17th, 1991: Release of For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, Van Halen’s third-straight number 1 album

January 1991: Eddie debuts the EVH Music Man guitar and the Peavey 5150 amplifier line

April 20th, 1992: Gary Cherone joins surviving members of Queen at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in London

February 23rd, 1993: Release of first official live album, Right Here, Right Now

October 16th, 1993: Van Halen’s manager since 1985, Ed Leffler, dies

March 14th, 1994: Sammy Hagar releases solo collection, Unboxed

October 2nd, 1994: Fresh from rehab, Eddie Van Halen announces he will never drink again

January 24th, 1995: Release of Balance, the fourth consecutive number 1 studio album

April 7th, 1995: Eddie arrested at Burbank Airport carrying a loaded gun

April 26th, 1995: Van Halen returns to Europe after eleven years, as an opening act for Bon Jovi

Fall 1995: David Lee Roth appears in Reno and Las Vegas with a fourteen-piece band

November 29th, 1995: Sammy Hagar marries second wife, Kari

June 1996: Eddie and Sammy fight during a phone call; Sammy Hagar leaves Van Halen

August 7th, 1996: Van Halen certified diamond for ten million sold

September 4th, 1996: Original members of Van Halen appear together at MTV Video Music Awards, leading to renewed quarrels

October 4th, 1996: Alex and Eddie announce that Van Halen’s new singer will be Gary Cherone

October 22nd, 1996: Release of Best of Volume I, with two new songs featuring Roth; despite the recent split with the band, it is his first number 1 album

March 17th, 1998: Release of Van Halen III, the first VH . studio album not to go platinum

November 5th, 1999: Gary Cherone leaves Van Halen

May 2000: Texas hospital confirms Eddie in outpatient cancer prevention

Summer 2001: Van Halen completes at least three new songs with David Lee Roth

January 2002: Van Halen’s partnership with Warner Bros. ends after twenty-three years

April 15th, 2002: David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar announce joint forty-date summer concert tour

May 2002: Doctors declare Eddie Van Halen cancer free

July 2002: Eddie and Valerie Van Halen announce separation

April 2004: Sammy’s Cabo Wabo Cantina opens a branch in basement of a Lake Tahoe casino; Cabo Wabo tequila ships over 110,000 cases for the year

June 11th, 2004: Van Halen launches reunion tour with Sammy Hagar; relations sour by the end of the summer

November 19th, 2004: Eddie smashes two Peavey Wolfgang guitars, ending his thirteen-year partnership

December 6th, 2005: Eddie and Valerie officially file for divorce

January 2006: David Lee Roth replaces Howard Stern as morning radio DJ; lasts through April

September 2006: Eddie Van Halen announces that Van Halen will tour in 2007 with his son, Wolfgang, playing bass

December 2006: Roth rehearses with a new all-Van Halen lineup

March 2007: Van Halen inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

September 27th, 2007: Van Halen started their new tour in Charlotte, North Carolina

March 5th, 2008: World Weekly Entertainment to CBS News reported that the reason the tour had been interrupted was Eddie Van Halen’s needing to reenter rehab

June 2nd, 2008: The tour ended at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan

July 3rd, 2008: Van Halen headlined the Quebec City Summer Festival

August 2010: Warner/Chappell Music extends its administration agreements with Van Halen

January 17th, 2011: Van Halen enters the Hensen Studio C with Producer Jon Shanks

December 26th, 2011: Their official website is updated, announcing that tickets for their 2012 tour will be available beginning January 10th, 2012

January 5th, 2012: Van Halen plays an intimate gig at Café Wha? in New York City

January 10th, 2012: Van Halen’s single “Tattoo” makes it’s premier on radio stations

February 7th, 2012: A Different Kind of Truth is released

August 30th, 2012: Eddie Van Halen is diagnosed with diverticulitis and undergoes surgery, which postpones the shows in Japan

April 20th, 2013: Van Halen performs it’s first show outside North American with Roth since 1984

February 2015: Van Halen fansite, VHND.com, announces that Van Halen is releasing their first every live album with David Lee Roth, Tokyo Dome Live in Concert

March 24th, 2015: Van Halen announces a 39 date tour with Roth that will take place between July and October across North America

March 31st, 2015: Tokyo Dome Live in Concert is released

April 2015: Eddie Van Halen tells Rolling Stone that the band “will probably hunker down and do a studio album” after their tour

January 16th, 2016: Michael Anthony clears up the rumor that he might be rejoining Van Halen

February 26th, 2016: David Lee Roth clears up some rumors about his recently released song “Ain’t No Christmas”, saying that it has nothing to do with Van Halen

May 25th, 2016: David Lee Roth says he believes he’ll be back with Van Halen

August 17th, 2016: Sammy Hagar apologizes to Van Halen

December 23rd, 2016: Rumors start to fly about Van Halen reuniting for album and 2018 tour

March 12th, 2017: Michael Anthony says that it’s time for Roth/Hagar Van Halen tour

June 22nd, 2017: Michael Anthony says that now is a perfect time for a reunion of the classic lineup of Van Halen

November 2nd, 2017: Sammy Hagar says that there is no chance of a Van Halen reunion

January 5th, 2018: Michael Anthony is interviewed for upcoming Van Halen documentary

January 20th, 2018: Van Halen is rumored to have new music and 2018 tour

January 29th, 2018: Eddie Van Halen sues to stop release of “5150 Vault” documentary

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