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Hakeem Olajuwon and Patrick Ewing toiled in the NBA for 19 combined seasons before reaching the Finals in 1994. They were upstaged on June 17 during Game 3, however, when NBC preempted Rockets-Knicks coverage to air police chasing O.J. Simpson down a Southern California freeway. (AP; John Biever/SI)
GALLERY: Memorable Moments of the NBA Finals
Hecho en Houston.
Adam Dunn
May 26, 2013
US Cellular Field
Chicago, Illinois
Photo by Paul Beaty
Astrodome: Dirty and Dated, But Irreplaceable.
It gave us domed, all-purpose stadiums and artificial turf and expansive scoreboards. It gave us seminal respect for women’s sports when Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs at tennis in 1973. It gave us the inventor of the end zone dance in 1969, Elmo Wright of the University of Houston. It gave us the first prime-time national television audience for a regular-season college basketball game, with the famed 1968 meeting between Houston and U.C.L.A.
So it was despairing to hear that the vacant Astrodome might be torn down and its site paved over as Houston prepares to host the 2017 Super Bowl.
…Demolition “would symbolize that we’ve just decided to quit,” said Ryan Slattery, whose master’s thesis in architecture at the University of Houston offers a different alternative. His plan, which has gained traction, involves a vision of green space. He would strip the Astrodome to its steel skeleton, evoking the Eiffel Tower of sport, and install a park. It could be used for football tailgating, livestock exhibitions, recreational sports.
All private proposals for the Astrodome are due by June 10 to the Harris County Sports and Convention Corporation, which oversees the stadium.
- Jere Longman, New York Times, 27 May, 12013.
Muhammad Ali knocks out Cleveland Williams during round three of their 1966 fight at the Astrodome. (Neil Leifer/SI)
GALLERY: The Best of Muhammad Ali
Billie Jean King entering into the Astrodome, Cleopatra-style, before the Battle of the Sexes II against Bobby Riggs, 1973.
Miss Ima Hogg and an unidentified woman headed for the No-Tsu-Oh festival’s Tekram Parade in Houston, late 1890s.
The myth that she had a sister named Ura is just that.
from a great tumblr find: The bible, if Wes Anderson had written it.
Rushmore or Matt 28
Bey makes everything look effortless.
Of course someone made a Beyoncé portrait using only Oreos and cream cheese.
Tattoo you.
Bill Hicks inspired tattoo done by Tim McCarthy of Tsunami Tattoo in Tacoma, WA.
(via billhicks)
“How we come to light.”
Happy Birthday (May 6) James Turrell!
“Generally, we use light—we don’t really pay much attention to light itself. That’s my interest: this fascination with light and how we come to light.”
Seen here is the The Light Inside (1999), commissioned by and installed at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The Light Inside is installed in the underground tunnel that links the museum’s Caroline Wiess Law Building with the Audrey Jones Beck Building.
—James TurrellIMAGES: Production stills from the Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 1 episode, Spirituality, 2001. © Art21, Inc. 2001.
