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* Harlem Globetrotters: The Team that Changed the World, a 2005 documentary featuring interviews with the Globetrotters, NBA coaches and fans such as Bill Cosby, Samuel L. Jackson, Barack Obama, Phil Jackson and Henry Kissinger — himself an honorary Globetrotter — and including photos of the Globetrotters with Pope John Paul II.
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* Narrated and appeared on-camera for the 2005 PBS documentary Harlem Globetrotters: The Team That Changed the World.
Kelland, Morris, and Lloyd state that Halo: Combat Evolved stunt videos offer a new way to look at the game, and compare Battlefield 1942 machinima creators to the Harlem Globetrotters.
During its early years, the quality of play in the BAA was not significantly better than in competing leagues or among leading independent clubs such as the Harlem Globetrotters.
In the 1950s, the basketball team was a powerhouse with brothers Johnny and Eddie O ' Brien, who led Seattle University as the only team in history to defeat the world famous Harlem Globetrotters.
On the special she performed show tunes and comedy bits alongside comic legend George Burns, teen matinee idol Shaun Cassidy, popular television star John Ritter ( during his days on Three's Company ), and even the Harlem Globetrotters joined her for a montage.
* Harlem Globetrotters ( 1970 – 1972, co-produced by and aired on CBS )
Krusty wastes money almost as fast as he earns it: lighting his cigarettes with hundred-dollar bills ; eating condor-egg omelets ; spending huge sums on pornographic magazines ; and losing a fortune gambling on everything from horse races to operas to betting against the Harlem Globetrotters.
He was also a prolific voiceover artist, and provided the voices of Meadowlark Lemon in the animated TV version of The Harlem Globetrotters, Jazz the Autobot in The Transformers, the title character in Hong Kong Phooey, and Scat Cat in the 1970 film The Aristocats.
In the 1970s, fans recognized his distinctive voice as Hong Kong Phooey, and the voice of Meadowlark Lemon in the Harlem Globetrotters cartoon series.
* The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island ( TV 1981 )
* Trazel Silvers, former professional basketball player for the Harlem Globetrotters and in Europe.
The Texas Cowgirls tours included opening for the Harlem Globetrotters, the Syracuse Nationals, Minnesota Lakers, Boston Celtics, Philadelphia Warriors.
* Herbert " Flight Time " Lang, current member of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team and 2 time participant of the Amazing Race.
On January 7, 1927, the Harlem Globetrotters played their first road game in Hinckley before a crowd of 300.
Hinckley was home to the first Harlem Globetrotters away game on January 7, 1927.
* Robert " Babyface " Paige Jr. was a center for the Harlem Globetrotters in the late 70's and early 80's.
* Nick " Milk Snake " Wiget-announcer for the Harlem Globetrotters
* Hubert Eugene " Geese " Ausbie ( born April 25, 1938 ), a retired professional basketball player and manager for the Harlem Globetrotters.
In 1997, they started with such players like Isabelle Fijalkowski and former Harlem Globetrotters member Lynette Woodard, who had been the first female player in Globetrotter history.
* Theatre and shows: ABBA-The Show, Chicago, David Copperfield, Georgian National Ballet, Harlem Globetrotters, Riverdance, Wadaiko Yamato, Mamma Mia !, Cirque du Soleil
The Platinum FUBU collection also includes the M. Ali, Fat Albert and Harlem Globetrotters clothing lines.
Chicago stocked its roster with several members of the Harlem Globetrotters, who worked during the week at the Studebaker plant, but it also folded after compiling an 8 – 15 record.
The league was formed when basketball mogul Abe Saperstein did not get the Los Angeles National Basketball Association ( NBA ) franchise he felt he had been promised in return for his years of supporting the NBA with doubleheader games featuring his Harlem Globetrotters.
Isaacs previously played with an all-black touring squad ( the Washington Bears ), while Brown and Clayton were alumni of the Harlem Globetrotters.
* Abe Saperstein ( 1908-66 ), UK-born American founder & owner of the Harlem Globetrotters
Harlem and Team
On the October 18 episode of Nitro, Mysterio and Konnan teamed up together ( after Konnan joined the Filthy Animals ) to defeat Harlem Heat for the World Tag Team Championship.
* In the Futurama episode, " Time Keeps On Slippin '", in a basketball game against the Harlem Globetrotters, Professor Farnsworth's Team of Atomic Supermen are dressed in Washington Generals colors.
Upon their return in January 1996, they immediately started a feud with the Steiner Brothers, who returned in March, and Harlem Heat, before moving on to challenge the WCW Tag Team Champions Sting and Lex Luger.
After briefly feuding with both the Warriors and Public Enemy, the Steiners began feuding with the World Tag Team Champions Harlem Heat.
On July 24 at a house show, the Steiner Brothers defeated Harlem Heat to win the World Tag Team Championship, although they lost the title back to Harlem Heat only three days later.
Kendall and Barry defeated Harlem Heat for the WCW World Tag Team Title and lost it back three weeks later.
He is best known as being part of the tag team Harlem Heat with his younger brother Booker T. Among other accolades, Huffman is a one-time WCW World Television Champion, and, with his brother, a record ten-time WCW World Tag Team Champion.
They also feuded with Harlem Heat ( Booker T and Stevie Ray ) over the WCW World Tag Team Championship, but never took the belts, and engaged in a short " Snobs versus Rednecks " program with the Stud Stable ( Bunkhouse Buck and Dick Slater ).
In October 1996, Harlem Heat fired Parker after he helped to cost them the WCW World Tag Team Championships.
As Harlem Heat, they won the WCW World Tag Team Championship a record ten times together.
Harlem Heat regained the WCW World Tag Team titles from Slater and Buck at Fall Brawl 1995.
On the June 24, 1996 " Nitro ," Harlem Heat defeated Lex Luger and Sting to capture their fifth WCW World Tag Team titles.
Harlem Heat would defeat them about a month later at the 1999 Fall Brawl for the WCW World Tag Team titles.
Harlem Heat claimed their tenth WCW World Tag Team title defeating members of The First Family ( Hugh Morrus and Brian Knobs ) and the Filthy Animals ( Konnan and Billy Kidman ).
On September 23, 1996 in Birmingham, Alabama, The Public Enemy defeated Harlem Heat to win the WCW World Tag Team Championship.
* Harlem Heat ( Booker T and Stevie Ray ) defeated The Steiner Brothers ( Rick and Scott ) to retain the WCW World Tag Team Championship ( 17: 53 )
* The Nasty Boys ( Brian Knobs and Jerry Sags ) defeated Harlem Heat ( Booker T and Stevie Ray ) to win the WCW World Tag Team Championship ( 10: 52 )
* The Outsiders ( Kevin Nash and Scott Hall ) defeated Harlem Heat ( Booker T and Stevie Ray ) ( with Sister Sherri and Col. Robert Parker ) to win the WCW World Tag Team Championship ( 13: 07 )
* Harlem Heat ( Booker T and Stevie Ray ) defeated The Filthy Animals ( Billy Kidman and Konnan ) and The First Family ( Brian Knobs and Hugh Morrus ) ( with Jimmy Hart ) in a Triple Threat Street Fight to win the vacant WCW World Tag Team Championship ( 5: 02 )
* Tag Team Championship semi-final: Shane Douglas and Buff Bagwell defeated Harlem Heat 2000 ( Stevie Ray and Big T ) ( with J. Biggs and Kash ) ( 2: 41 )
Harlem Heat's WCW World Tag Team Championship was not on the line.
Together, they captured their first and only World Tag Team Championship, but only held it for eight days before losing it back to Harlem Heat, the team they won it from in the first place. The team competed on a tour of Germany for WCW at this time.
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