I can't believe that this is the first comment on either of these two posts. In honor of the uncommented-on post below, can we rename him Kobė Bryant? But remember that Wilt Chämberlain scored 100 points in a game.
There is an ironic footnote to this historic event. The Knicks and the Warriors played again the following night in New York. With time running out in the game, Darrall Imhoff, the 6-foot-11 center charged with guarding Chamberlain during his 100-point onslaught, left the game and received a standing ovation from the Madison Square Garden crowd. Why? Because he had "held" Chamberlain to a mere 54 points.
IIRC, Chamberlain could have scored more, but when he reached 100 everyone started celebrating and they didn't finish the rest of the game - I think there were still a few seconds to go.
Yes, the piece I linked to said that there were still 46 seconds left, but everyone went nuts when Chamberlain hit 100 and, by some accounts, the game was never finished. It also said, however, that one of the players said that the game was finished, that he made two free throws in the last 46 seconds, and that the box score supports his account.
Woops, I got it wrong. The guy missed two free throws:
The 100 point night never ended officially. The final 46 seconds weren't played, because as soon as Chamberlain scored 100, fans stormed the court and no one had interest in continuing. Joe Rutlick claims that the game did end officially and that he missed two free throws during the last 46 seconds, and the boxscore confirms Rutlick's statement.
The two dots can also be umlauts changing the vowel. They can only function as diareses when placed over the second of two vowels between two consonants. Even in "see", an acute accent above the second "e" would probably be used to tell you to pronounced "e"s.
Breaking! -- heavy metal albums may not be a good source for the study of graphology.
Is he inattentive? I don't know he could know the number with any exactitude unless he (a) had a phenomenal memory, (b) kept a list or (c) had a practice of, say, always having sex with a new woman every day -- in which case it would only take him about 27 years, 4 1/2 months to reach 10,000.
This will have to go down as an unofficial record, due to inadequate documentation. Wilt had Bill Wyman beat all to shit, though, though Wyman did keep careful records.
(1) Phil Jackson's peculiar genius will be most evident in the next three years. The Lakers will make the playoffs this year, and in two years, Kwame will be a good if not great player.
(2) I don't get the "Kobe is a bad guy" thing, unless you think that he raped that woman (in which case he is obviously a very, very bad man.)
I can't believe that this is the first comment on either of these two posts. In honor of the uncommented-on post below, can we rename him Kobė Bryant? But remember that Wilt Chämberlain scored 100 points in a game.
Posted by Frederick | Link to this comment | 01- 8-06 12:48 AM
Sėė?
There is an ironic footnote to this historic event. The Knicks and the Warriors played again the following night in New York. With time running out in the game, Darrall Imhoff, the 6-foot-11 center charged with guarding Chamberlain during his 100-point onslaught, left the game and received a standing ovation from the Madison Square Garden crowd. Why? Because he had "held" Chamberlain to a mere 54 points.
Posted by Frederick | Link to this comment | 01- 8-06 12:54 AM
One hundred is also the square root of the number of women with whom he claimed he'd had sex. (Somehow the euphemism "made love" seems inappropriate here.)
Posted by Frederick | Link to this comment | 01- 8-06 1:09 AM
IIRC, Chamberlain could have scored more, but when he reached 100 everyone started celebrating and they didn't finish the rest of the game - I think there were still a few seconds to go.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 01- 8-06 1:36 AM
Yes, the piece I linked to said that there were still 46 seconds left, but everyone went nuts when Chamberlain hit 100 and, by some accounts, the game was never finished. It also said, however, that one of the players said that the game was finished, that he made two free throws in the last 46 seconds, and that the box score supports his account.
Posted by Frederick | Link to this comment | 01- 8-06 1:44 AM
Woops, I got it wrong. The guy missed two free throws:
The 100 point night never ended officially. The final 46 seconds weren't played, because as soon as Chamberlain scored 100, fans stormed the court and no one had interest in continuing. Joe Rutlick claims that the game did end officially and that he missed two free throws during the last 46 seconds, and the boxscore confirms Rutlick's statement.
Posted by Frederick | Link to this comment | 01- 8-06 1:50 AM
It's been so long, I forgot this advice from the archives.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 01- 8-06 2:00 AM
In the spirit of pointing out the obvious: none of the twin dots used above are diareses.
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 01- 8-06 5:51 AM
In the spirit of pointing out the obvious: none of the twin dots used above are diareses.
Dang, you mean "see" isn't spelled with four dots above the e's?! No wonder my teachers always circled it in red on my papers for all those years!
Posted by Frederick | Link to this comment | 01- 8-06 6:44 AM
No I just mean if you put the dots there, they would not be functioning as diareses.
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 01- 8-06 8:20 AM
They wouldn't? Why not (other than "see," "Chamberlain," and "Kobe" not really being pronounced that way)?
Posted by Frederick | Link to this comment | 01- 8-06 8:36 AM
How did Chamberlain know it was really 10,000 different women? Given his inattentiveness, maybe it was only 100 women 100 times each.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 01- 8-06 8:44 AM
The two dots can also be umlauts changing the vowel. They can only function as diareses when placed over the second of two vowels between two consonants. Even in "see", an acute accent above the second "e" would probably be used to tell you to pronounced "e"s.
Breaking! -- heavy metal albums may not be a good source for the study of graphology.
BTW, I thought Wilt claimed 20,000.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 01- 8-06 8:54 AM
Is he inattentive? I don't know he could know the number with any exactitude unless he (a) had a phenomenal memory, (b) kept a list or (c) had a practice of, say, always having sex with a new woman every day -- in which case it would only take him about 27 years, 4 1/2 months to reach 10,000.
Posted by Frederick | Link to this comment | 01- 8-06 8:55 AM
"to pronounce two 'e's"
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 01- 8-06 8:57 AM
BTW, I thought Wilt claimed 20,000.
The article I linked said that Wilt had publicly claimed a larger number, but confided to friends that it was "only" 10,000.
Posted by Frederick | Link to this comment | 01- 8-06 8:59 AM
I calculated his story to require three a day. My guess is that he was estimating based on that rule of "thumb".
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 01- 8-06 8:59 AM
This will have to go down as an unofficial record, due to inadequate documentation. Wilt had Bill Wyman beat all to shit, though, though Wyman did keep careful records.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 01- 8-06 9:01 AM
(1) Phil Jackson's peculiar genius will be most evident in the next three years. The Lakers will make the playoffs this year, and in two years, Kwame will be a good if not great player.
(2) I don't get the "Kobe is a bad guy" thing, unless you think that he raped that woman (in which case he is obviously a very, very bad man.)
(3) Dr. Jerry Buss is awesome.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 01- 8-06 9:06 AM
This will have to go down as an unofficial record
Kind of gives new meaning to the title of this post.
Posted by Frederick | Link to this comment | 01- 8-06 9:21 AM
Go, Panthers!
Bring on Rex Grossman.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 01- 8-06 1:44 PM