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Street basketball players have traditionally been the stuff of urban legend â€â€? amazing small crowds at asphalt courts in cities across the country, but unseen and unknown by most When we played, we learned from the neck up, we knew our fundamentals It's Harlem's Rucker Park, legendary home to New York's great streetball tournament After one recent tournament game this summer, 17-year-old point guard Sebastian "Too Fast, Too Furious" Telfair, widely considered one of the top high school players in the nation, said he looked at the league as a place to be a little more free "It's supposed to be a little more fun here, but when you put me on a court I want to win, first and foremost," he said " The new players say fundamentals are important â€â€? but so is fun The annual tournament, now dubbed the Entertainer's Basketball Classic, is the subject of an MTV reality show called "Harlem Hoops "There's nothing like basketball in the summer," said the league's CEO, Greg Marius " The competition is so fierce that the end-of-season tournament in August draws pro stars to compete against the city's best streetballers After almost dying away in the early 1980s, the Rucker league has experienced a resurgence, drawing the interest of rappers like Jay-Z and Fat Joe, who sponsor teams, as well as the NBA, which broadcasts games on its cable channel "When you get off that A train at Rucker Park, you better bring your A game," game announcer EJ the Mayor said during a break in play last week "We played a much more fundamental game That cuts down on some of the truly outrageous schoolyard tricks one might see at other streetball exhibitions That's changing now, as the exploits of these raw talents with colorful nicknames catch the attention of TV and music executives, writers and entrepreneurs "Young players today are very much out of focus," said Kirkland, whose professional aspirations were cut short by an 11-year stint in prison on a drug trafficking conviction This isn't the NBA or even the NCAA Many current pros, including Mark Jackson, Ron Artest and Stephon Marbury, are Rucker Park alums " Another league legend from the 1950s, former New York Knick Cal Ramsey, agreed Residents say summer doesn't truly start at the park â€â€? located in the middle of the Polo Grounds Housing Project and across the Harlem River from Yankee Stadium â€â€? without the ping of a bouncing basketball, the squeak of sneakers and the tales of some of the sport's greats strutting their stuff on the court The finale: an earth-rattling two-handed dunk In past years, greats such as Wilt Chamberlain, Julius Erving, Connie Hawkins and Allen Iverson graced the court With such talent, the quality of the game is top-notch As the point guard brought the ball up the court, he did a mean crossover, then whipped it behind his back to the small forward out on the flat, who gunned it to the off guard on the edge of the key, who touch-passed it to a wide-open power forward under the basket But Pee Wee Kirkland, one of the greats from the league's heyday in the early 1970s, says the game has suffered because of the premium put on embarrassing your opponent with high-wire acrobatics "All this through the leg and behind the back stuff â€â€? we didn't do that," he said Even some of the sport's greatest nicknames, from Earl "The Pearl" Monroe to Nate "Tiny" Archibald and streetballer Joe "The Destroyer" Hammond, were earned on that court And Universal Pictures is developing a film â€â€? titled "The Rucker" â€â€? due out next year TV, Book Shows Streetball to New Audience Aug 20, 8:08 PM EST It was the type of play that makes jaws drop " Its history is detailed in the new book, "Asphalt Gods: An Oral History of the Rucker Tournament," by Vincent Mallozzi, a New York Times sports editor "It's all about the trick, and not the win The summer league at Rucker â€â€? started in 1956 by Parks Department worker Holcombe Rucker â€â€? is the center of it all "It makes me feel good to know that I'm giving kids around here something to feel real good about, to feel part of 25 " In the show's last two seasons, Crenna directed some episodes; he later directed episodes of "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Lou Grant Most recently, he appeared as the love interest opposite Tyne Daly on CBS' "Judging Amy Family members were arranging a public service to be held Jan Frank Janek in a series of television movies during the '80s and early '90s, and appeared in 1999 in a four-hour television series about three generations of a police family Crenna later spoofed that role in the 1993 comedy "Hot Shots! Part Deux," a parody of such high-testosterone films He earned an Emmy for his 1985 performance as the title character in "The Rape of Richard Beck," where he played a macho, sexist police officer whose world changes after he becomes the victim of a sexual assault Veteran Actor Richard Crenna Dies at 76 Jan 18, 7:01 PM EST Richard Crenna, the Emmy award-winning character actor who starred as a lovesick teenager on "Our Miss Brooks" and Sylvester Stallone's Green Beret mentor in the "Rambo" films, has died His character's name: Col " An episode featuring a wedding between the two characters was recently postponed because of Crenna's illness From 1957 through 1963, he played opposite Walter Brennan on the television series "The Real McCoys " In 1966, Crenna appeared with Steve McQueen in "The Sand Pebbles," and played one of three con men who terrorized a blind Audrey Hepburn in the 1967 thriller "Wait Until Dark He also portrayed Col " The latter role earned him a Golden Globe nomination for best supporting actor "This came very sudden," she said Born in Los Angeles, Crenna's career began at the age of 10 when he broke into radio He appeared in several critically hailed movies, including roles as the cuckolded husband in the steamy 1981 film "Body Heat," and as the conniving card shark opposite Matt Dillon in 1984's "The Flamingo Kid Denton Walters, a nod to his old radio persona He was 76 Crenna, whose credits also included "Wait Until Dark," "The Flamingo Kid," and television's "The Real McCoys," died Friday of pancreatic cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, daughter Seana Crenna said Saturday " Crenna disproved that theory, playing pitcher Daffy Dean in 1953 film "Pride of St "In those days, radio actors were considered actors who could talk, but they couldn't walk and talk at the same time Crenna is survived by wife Penni and three adult children " Crenna moved easily between television and the movies, and worked steadily through the years Louis" and bringing his Denton character to television and the big screen He played Lt Samuel Trautman, the mentor to Stallone's "Rambo" character, in all three of those films Crenna's work as a tough-guy cop became a staple Crenna's role on the CBS drama series "Judging Amy" was recently put on hold as he battled cancer The squeaky-voiced youngster appeared on "Burns and Allen"; later, he played love-sick teen Walter Denton on "Our Miss Brooks," moving with the show when it switched to television "For the first 20 years I was almost exclusively a radio actor â€â€? until television came in," Crenna told The Associated Press in 1999 |
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