Alonzo Mourning Retiring

[RockaFowler]

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/sports/epaper/2009/01/22/0122alonzo.html

Alonzo Mourning, perhaps the greatest player in Miami Heat history, announced his retirement Thursday afternoon in a news conference at AmericanAirlines Arena.

Mourning, 38, is a likely Hall of Fame selection who spent the majority of his career - roughly 11 full years of his 15 seasons - with Miami.

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Mourning has long been one of the NBA's and South Florida's most charitable and caring athletes. His Overtown Youth Center, located in the inner-city Miami neighborhood of Overtown, has been thriving for years.

Mourning sent a busload of 50 children and chaperones from the OYC to President Barack Obama's inauguration. Mourning, who has been outspoken on issues from organ donation to education, also attended the inauguration.

[PRETZEL]

1. tremendous human being,

given all he's been through and all he's overcome I wish him a lifetime of health and well being.

[DinahMoeHum]

2. Great interview with Dave Zirin recently at Edge-of-Sports-dot-com

http://www.edgeofsports.com/2009-01-16-405/index.html

[Forkboy]

3. Miami Mourns Mourning.

Their copy writer sucks. :P

And Mourning sucks too for waiting until the afternoon to announce it...


"You're built too low. The fast ones go over your head. Ya got a hole in your glove. I keep pitchin' 'em and you keep missin' 'em. Ya gotta keep your eye on the ball. Eye. Ball. I almost had a gag, son. Joke, that is."