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More likely to know about abolitionist Frederick Douglass, today’s students, especially those with an insatiable craving for learning more about the history of race relations and sport in the United States, would be well suited to read up on Robert Douglas, the founder of the powerful New York Rens and a visionary and pioneer for African Americans in the game of basketball during the early 20th century.

While hardly fitting the image of a Bad Boy, former NBA center Jon Koncak was certainly a happy boy when the Atlanta Hawks matched a 6-year, $13-million offer sheet from the defending NBA champion Detroit Pistons on this day 19 years ago. Coming off a 1988-89 campaign in which he only averaged 4.7 points per game, Koncak would amazingly earn more than Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird during the first season of an economically stimulating New Deal that even FDR wouldn’t have envisioned.

Two years ago today, Canada defeated the United States by eight points in the Wheelchair Basketball World Championship for Women? Who cares, you say. While this author may have once shared a similar view and still does not follow the sport of wheelchair basketball religiously, I got a first-hand account of how hard these athletes work while writing a feature story on the highly accomplished University of Illinois’ women’s team five years ago for an undergraduate broadcast journalism class.

Approximately 30 years ago to the day, the NBA announced that it would add a third referee to games on an experimental basis that has now become the norm. With that said, it is unknown whether such expansion so diluted the quality of officiating in the league that it would have to later accept third-tier officials like Tim Donaghy, whose saga, in all seriousness, took another strange turn earlier today.

While one Packer – Brett Favre – asked for his release today, another Packer – Billy – amicably parted ways with CBS Sports after being the network’s lead college basketball analyst for what seemed like forever but was actually 27 years. Replacing the often irritable yet highly knowledgeable Packer will be the stat-sheet stuffer himself, Clark Kellogg, who will be paired with Jim Natz during the 2009 Final Four.

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