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‘Amazing to be back home’: Jacksonville Harlem Globetrotter excited to play in hometown for 1st time as a pro
Read full article: ‘Amazing to be back home’: Jacksonville Harlem Globetrotter excited to play in hometown for 1st time as a proThe world-famous Harlem Globetrotters will be playing at UNF Friday night.
Basketball legend Rivers, longtime Globetrotter, dies at 73
Read full article: Basketball legend Rivers, longtime Globetrotter, dies at 73Larry “Gator” Rivers, who helped integrate high school basketball in Georgia before playing for the Harlem Globetrotters and becoming a county commissioner in his native Savannah, has died.
News outlet sorry for banana thrown at Harlem Globetrotter
Read full article: News outlet sorry for banana thrown at Harlem GlobetrotterDuring that same newscast, WBRC News Director Shannon Isbell offered an on-air apology to Pearce. Pearce, 24, hands the tangerine back to Ferguson before someone behind the camera once again throws the fruit back at Pearce. He notified the team about the incident, and he says it reached out to the Birmingham news station back in February. Foxs reaction was to have me call them to receive an apology from the news director, and not from the actual anchors who threw the fruit, Pearce said. An on-air segment promoting a Globetrotters event with Mr. Pearce in January was intended to be lighthearted," she said.