ABA co-founder Dennis Murphy dies at 94
Murphy, a longtime friend of erstwhile Lakers owner Dr. Jerry Buss, loomed large in the development of basketball, hockey & tennis.
Official release
July 16, 2021 2:30 AM
ABA co-founder Dennis Murphy, a longtime friend of erstwhile Lakers’ owner Dr. Jerry Buss, died Thursday at age 94.
Sports entrepreneur Dennis Murphy, one of the greatest innovators in the history of the sports industry, who should be in three Halls of Fame (basketball, hockey, and tennis), passed away on July 15 in Placentia, California, at age 94.
Dennis was born September 4, 1926, in Shanghai, China, before moving to the U.S. in 1941. A sports fanatic, he played second base for the varsity team at University High School in Los Angeles. He served in the military as a staff sergeant in World War II and came out of the Korean War as a captain. Dennis attended the University of Southern California and majored in economics. In 1958, he served one-term as mayor of Buena
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The wrestling documentaries popular these days all end the same way: in tragedy.
Jeremy Norrie, director of “The Other Side of the Ring,” goes the other direction, following the booker’s inclination to send the fans home happy.
“I’ve watched a lot of the other documentaries, and some of them are really, really good, but there is a little dramatization, and they focus on some of the real horror stories,” Norrie said. “I kind of liked the idea that this doesn’t have to necessarily be a bad thing, that everybody’s story is, you know, a personal journey, and there’s emotional tie-ins for everybody. Some are like, more harsh than others, right? B