Sports
Sam Bowie says he knew he wasn’t sound before 1984 NBA draft
Dec. 12, 2012
Lakers
By late Thursday night, the Lakers were on their way home, returning from the longest trip of the season to celebrate a blue Christmas and maybe hope that fellow last-minute shoppers don’t box out like Matt Geiger.
Dec. 24, 1993
Music
David Bowie, “Blackstar” (ISO/Columbia). We’ve come to expect curious things from David Bowie.
Dec. 6, 2015
Most everyone agreed that Sam Bowie’s most memorable move Thursday night was not one he made on the floor during the Portland Trail Blazers’ temple-throbbing 115-113 victory over the Dallas Mavericks in Game 4 of their first-round playoff series.
April 27, 1985
The call came at mid-afternoon. “Sammy,” Cathy Bowie said from Lebanon, Pa.
April 30, 1989
Center Sam Bowie of the Portland Trail Blazers, who broke a shinbone last fall, will miss the rest of the National Basketball Assn. season, the team physician said.
Feb. 26, 1987
Injured center Sam Bowie of the Portland Trail Blazers will return to Kentucky this week to consult two doctors who treated his broken leg while he was in college.
Feb. 18, 1986
Center Sam Bowie of the Portland Trail Blazers will undergo bone graft surgery next week to repair a stress fracture in the left shin.
Feb. 28, 1986
Jolts of electricity shot through Sam Bowie’s chronically injured right ankle Friday morning at Loyola Marymount, a therapeutic form of torture to which the Portland Trail Blazer center regularly submits in order to play.
April 29, 1989
Sam Bowie underwent surgery on his broken right leg in what the oft-injured center says is his final attempt to salvage his professional basketball career.
March 30, 1988