05-20-2015, 01:09 PM
The most interesting basketball-related thing about Chamberlain, IMO, is that he started his professional basketball career with the Harlem Globetrotters, since he left Kansas after his junior year and, at that time, the NBA wouldn't take players who had not completed college.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)