Still crazy after all these years

Wilt Chamberlain … will probably never be broken When contemporary basketball fans think of the greatest basketball player in history, they invariably talk about Michael Jordan or Lebron James.  Perhaps Kobe Bryant enters the mix.  However, the awesome big men of yesteryear have records that may not be broken. Kareen Abdul-Jabbar scored 38,387 points in his career, yet fans today do not mention him as one of the greatest.  The record that will likely never be surpassed occurred 60 years ago this month in Hershey, Pa. On that night, Wilt Chamberlain, the 7-2 inch center of the Philadelphia Warriors, scored 100 points in a game against the New York Knicks. 100 points? Only one person has ever come close to that since, and he missed by 19 points.  That was Kobe Bryant. The current players on the Philadelphia 76ers recalled that night in a game earlier this week, Chamberlain, a product of Overbrook High School [in Philadelphia], was later traded by the Warriors, who had ...

Russian businessman puts $1 million bounty on Putin … it may never recover Trying to enter the demented mind of Vladimir Putin is a challenging task. The man who watched the Berlin Wall fall and blamed Soviet leaders for the fall wanted to restore the Soviet Empire.  The Russian people want to eat, not destroy Ukraine, though, and now, just a week after he invaded the country, it is isolated and the people face a year of starvation and return to Soviet destitution.  The strange part of this is that Putin worked to develop the economy so that it could trade with Europe and the West.  And then his megalomania or paranoia entered into the picture and he became Stalin II.  It could end in his death. His trip to Britain 19 years ago In the early years, Putin was careful to do what the Russian Oligarchs who controlled the economy wanted. Now, one of them has put a million dollar bounty on his head.  They realize that their gig is up. How did he let this happen? It all...