Salon News | Basketball diaries


Arts & Entertainment Books Comics Health & Body Media Mothers Who Think News People Politics2000 Technology - Free Software Travel & Food Columnists Current Wire Stories Click here to read the latest stories from the wires. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Also Today For a full list of today's Salon News stories, go to the News home page. - - - - - - - - - - - - Search Salon Advanced Search \| Help - - - - - - - - - - - - Recently in Salon News Dead senator running? LBJ's son-in-law Chuck Robb once seemed to be on the fast track to the White House, but these days, he's considered the senator most likely to lose his job in 2000. By Jake Tapper [11/17/99] Bill Bradley -- life saver? The presidential hopeful's new commercial claims that he once saved a baby's life, but the truth is a little more complicated than that. By Jake Tapper [11/16/99] Trump takes Miami The billionaire panders to Reform Party loyalists and Cuban dissidents as he toys with seeking the presidency. By John Lantigua [11/16/99] High-tech ambulance chasing? Attorneys register EgyptAir domain names, seeking to comfort families, not attract clients. By Anthony York [11/16/99] Pilots ponder the mysteries of EgyptAir crash Those who fly planes want to know why the autopilot was disconnected, the engines were shut down and nobody contacted air-traffic controllers. By Phaedra Hise [11/16/99] Complete archives for News - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -		Basketball diaries Salon's Jake Tapper goes among the redwoods, with camera in hand, at Bill Bradley's Madison Square Garden fund-raiser. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Jake Tapper Nov. 17, 1999 \| NEW YORK -- Bill Bradley scored big-time here at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, hosting his "HOOPLA! Bill Bradley back in the Garden" fundraiser, which brought in NBA legends and $1.5 million. As is always the case with events such as these, the most interesting stuff doesn't make it onto the evening news -- it happens behind the scenes. The following snapshots were taken by Washington correspondent Jake Tapper: Bradley spokesman Eric Hauser is attacked by a ravenous press corps before the start of the event. I wanted to know if actor Harvey Keitel was going to be showing the crowd his penis, as seems to be in the fine print of the contracts for many of his films of late. Hauser had no comment. - - - - - - - - - - - - The Weekly Standard's Matt Labash interrogates illustrator LeRoy Neiman, a favorite artist of athletes as well as Hugh Hefner. Big donors to Bradley's 1978 Senate run received a Neiman poster of the candidate with his sleeves rolled up and a silhouette of New Jersey in the background. - - - - - - - - - - - - Lakers great, "Airplane" co-star and all-time NBA leading scorer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the first star introduced to the crowd. Next page \| Spike Lee and Ethan Hawke hobnob with the stars


Search..Archives..Contact Us..Table Talk..Ad Info..Investors