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	Bill Russell Summary
		Russell was also the captain of the 1956 United States men's Olympic basketball team, which cruised to the gold medal at the Melbourne Summer Games with an average margin of victory of 53.5 points.
		Russell's 51 rebounds in a single game is the second best performance ever (only trailing Wilt Chamberlain's record of 55), and he still holds the NBA record for rebounds in one half with 32.
		Russell is the all-time playoff leader in total (4,104) and average (24.9) rebounds, he grabbed 40 rebounds in three separate playoff games, and he never failed to average at least 20 rebounds per game in any of his 13 post-season campaigns.
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	Bill Russell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Russell's 51 rebounds in a single game is the second best performance ever (only trailing Wilt Chamberlain's record of 55), and he still holds the NBA record for rebounds in one half with 32.
		Russell is the all-time playoff leader in total (4,104) and average (24.9) rebounds per game, he grabbed 40 rebounds in three separate playoff games, and he never failed to average at least 20 rebounds per game in any of his 13 post-season campaigns.
		Russell was life-long friends with another legend, Wilt Chamberlain, who many consider to be the greatest ever offensive player; their on-court battles were perhaps the greatest individual rivalry in the history of the league.
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	Bill Russell (baseball) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Russell was the club's everyday shortstop for the next 12 years, anchoring an infield that included third baseman Ron Cey, second baseman Davey Lopes and first baseman Steve Garvey.
		Russell's finest Fall Classic was in 1978, when he garnered 11 hits and batted.423 in a losing effort against the New York Yankees.
		Russell finished the 1996 season, compiling a record of 49-37 and bringing the Dodgers home in second place, earning the NL wild card spot in the playoffs before being swept in three games by the Atlanta Braves in the Division Series.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Russell_(baseball) (471 words)

	Bill Russell Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Russell held his mother in great regard, and it was a blow to him when she became ill and died in 1946.
		Russell in fact was a mediocre ball handler, and Auerbach instructed him to avoid shooting or carrying the ball.
		Yet the years that coincided with Russell's playing career bear the nickname the "Bill Russell Era." Critics maintained that Russell's presence on the team was a key factor in 11 NBA championships won by the Celtics from 1957 through 1969.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/bill-russell (1890 words)

	William "Bill" Russell Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Russell led the Dons to 55 consecutive victories and capped his collegiate years with the 1955 and 1956 NCAA championships.
		Russell played in 48 of the Boston Celtics' 72 games as a rookie, and his presence in the Celtics' lineup began a dynasty in Boston rivaled in sports only by John Wooden's UCLA Bruins and baseball's New York Yankees.
		Russell served as player/coach from 1967 to 1969, and led Boston to the 1968 and 1969 NBA titles.
	www.hoophall.com /halloffamers/RussellW.htm (803 words)

	Bill Russell - MSN Encarta
		Bill Russell, born in 1934, American basketball player, coach, and television sports announcer, often considered the finest defensive player of all time.
		Russell delayed turning professional after graduation in 1956 in order to play on the United States team that won the men's basketball gold medal at the Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia.
		In 1966, Russell became a player-coach for the Celtics, the first fl head coach in major league professional sports, and won two more championships before he retired in 1969.
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	Bill Russell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Russell was dedicated to all aspects of the game, from his rebounding to shot blocking the ball directly to a teammate and not out of bounds or in the stands, and court sense.
		Russell's shot-blocking technique earned him the title "Mr.Defense." By the end of his career, he had grabbed 21,620 rebounds (second to Wilt Chamberlain, his longtime rival and off court friend for many years after), averaged 15 points per game, and logged 40,726 minutes of playing time (4th in NBA annals).
		Russell later served as coach and general manager of the Seattle Super-Sonics (1973-1977) and as coach and vice president of the Sacramento Kings (1987-1989).
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	Bill Russell
		Russell was among that truly rare handful of athletes-Babe Ruth comes immediately to mind in baseball-who dominate their sport so thoroughly that they actually change the way the game is played and perceived by future generations," Peter C. Bjarkman wrote in The Biographical History of Basketball.
		According to Rader, the continued success of Russell and the Celtics caused Chamberlain to gain the "reputation of being a "loser." He was bigger and stronger than Russell, a far better shooter in his prime, yet only once did his team defeat the Celtics in the playoffs.
		Bill Russell called himself a fl man. He was one of the first men I ever saw to truly acknowledge the fact that he was fl, and to identify very strongly with his roots in Africa."
	www.the-surfs-up.com /sports/billrussell.html (1542 words)

	PIONEER of Biological Research - Bill Russell (1910-2003)
		Bill Russell (1910-2003) was an internationally renowned ORNL biologist and member of the National Academy of Sciences, whose research led to human radiation protection standards.
		Bill passed the rainy afternoon explaining to me the "specific locus test," which measures the frequency of transmitted gene mutations induced in mouse cells that are ancestors of sperm.
		Bill's discovery that the chemical ENU is the best mutagen for producing point mutations in mice has formed the basis for huge research programs currently supported by many sponsors interested in mouse models for human genetic diseases.
	www.ornl.gov /info/ornlreview/v37_3_04/article11.shtml (1214 words)

	IMG Speakers Bureau - Bill Russell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bill was chosen as the league's most valuable player five times...12 times elected to the NBA All-Star team...and, in 1967 he became the first African-American professional coach in any sport and when he joined the Seattle Supersonics, the first African-American general manager.
		Bill is also credited with playing another major role in bringing the NBA into the modern era when he agreed to become the commentator analyst in 1980 as the NBA signed its first major network contract with CBS and went to prime time.
		Bill truly defines the word champion because of his success as a talent and as a human being.
	www.imgspeakers.com /speakers/bill_russell.aspx (594 words)

	ESPN Classic - More Info on Bill Russell
		Russell, in his third season as Boston's player-coach, is outscored by Wilt Chamberlain, 15-0, in the first half, but the Celtics still lead, 59-56.
		Russell doesn't think Wilt is badly injured and that he should have stayed in the game.
		Russell's Laws: (1) You must make the other player do what you want him to do; (2) You got to have the killer instinct; and (3) Remember that basketball is a game of habit.
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	NBA.com: Bill Russell Bio
		Bill Russell was the cornerstone of the Boston Celtics' dynasty of the 1960s, an uncanny shotblocker who revolutionized NBA defensive concepts.
		Russell grew to be a shade over 6-9, and he teamed with guard K.
		Russell repeated as the NBA rebounding leader in 1958-59, grabbing 23.0 per game, the first of seven consecutive campaigns in which he averaged at least 23 boards.
	www.nba.com /history/players/russell_bio.html (3051 words)

	Bill Russell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Russell, a 6'9" center from San Francisco played in 13 NBA season with the Celtics and was in 12 NBA All-Star games (MVP in '63).
		Russell was a winner....winning the NCAA championships in '55 and '56, an Olympic gold medal in '56, and helped the Celtics to 11 NBA crowns.
		Russell is a member of basketball's Hall of Fame and was voted as one of the top 50 basketball players of all time at the NBA's 50th anniversary.
	www.dickscourtroom.com /russellbill.htm (103 words)

	African American Registry: The minister of defense, Basketball's Bill Russell!
		Russell played in 48 of the Boston Celtics' 72 games as a rookie, and his presence in the Celtics' lineup began a dynasty in Boston rivaled in sports only by John Wooden's UCLA Bruins and baseball's New York Yankees.
		Russell, who once had 51 rebounds in a game against Syracuse in 1960, led the NBA in rebounding five times and grabbed 21,620 rebounds (second all-time), averaged 15.1 ppg and 22.5 rpg for his career.
		Russell served as player/coach from 1967 to 1969, and led Boston to the 1968 and 1969 NBA titles.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/2539/The_minister_of_defense_Basketballs_Bill_Russell (430 words)

	Memorial - William Russell
		William Lawson “Bill” Russell was born in Newhaven, on the south coast of England.
		Bill was very aware of the importance of the mouse data for estimating the genetic risk of radiation and chemicals in man (“The role of mammals in the future of chemical mutagenesis research,” Arch Toxicol [1977]: 38:141–147; and “Comments on mutagenesis risk estimation,” Genetics [1979]: 92(suppl):S187–S194).
		Russell was President of the Genetics Society of America, a charter member of the Environmental Mutagen Society (EMS) and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
	www.ems-us.org /who_we_are/memorial/billrussell.asp (1271 words)

	Bill Russell Biography - AOL Music
		Russell was a jazz journalist by the mid-1930s, contributing three chapters to the 1939 book Jazzmen and writing articles for Jazz Hot.
		Russell documented a variety of famous and obscure New Orleans musicians on his American Music label from 1944-57; many of its sessions have since been reissued by GHB.
		Russell worked in New Orleans as the curator of the jazz archive at Tulane University from 1958-65, and his interviews helped document the early history of jazz.
	music.aol.com /artist/bill-russell/121081/biography (218 words)

	Bill Russell - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Russell, Bill, born in 1934, American basketball player, coach, and television sports announcer, often considered the finest defensive player of all...
		William Felton Russell (born February 12, 1934) is a former American basketball player remembered for his central role in the Boston Celtics dynasty that won 11 championships in the 13 seasons, in...
		Richard Pilling/NBAE/Getty Images--> Pete Maravich Bill Russell was the cornerstone of the...
	encarta.msn.com /Bill_Russell.html (221 words)

	Bill Russell
		During Bill Russell's 13-year NBA playing career, his Boston Celtics won 11 championships, a record for winning unmatched by any player in any sport.
		Still, the sports star at Russell's school was his baseball playing classmate, Frank Robinson, and only the University of San Francisco offered Russell a sports scholarship.
		And when either team missed a shot, Russell was there for the rebound -- he led the league in rebounds five times, and after his Olympic-shortened first season he never had less than a thousand rebounds in a season.
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	Bill Russell - AskTheBrain.com
		BILL RUSSELL: And a lot of the richness that comes out of the complexity perspective is [Inaudible] in your systems, systems that fold over on themselves, massive amounts of feedback that go in unpredictable ways.
		BILL RUSSELL: It's almost an odd [Inaudible] society that allows you to conduct experiments on the future.
		BILL RUSSELL: I'd like to - you've raised the issue of [Inaudible] of what appears to be from the outside, self-dealing.
	www.askthebrain.com /bill_russell-.html (322 words)

	Criteria - Championships
		Russell was injured in the finals, and they lost the finals.
		Russell came back in his final two seasons and won two more championships and then he retired.
		Furthermore, while Russell joined a team in 1956 that had Bill Sharmin, Bob Cousy, Tommy Heinsoln, and Frank Ramsey (all hall of famers), all of these players retired and Russell kept on winning championships.
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	ESPN.com: Russell was proud, fierce warrior
		Bill Russell -- the prototypical defensive center -- was a champion from his rookie season until his last game in his last championship series.
		When Russell was inducted to the Hall of Fame in 1975, he did not attend for "personal reasons." Speculation has been that he was unhappy that no other African-American players had been elected previously.
		Russell was the consummate team player, the one who authoritatively blocked shots to teammates or fired the precision outlet pass.
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	Russell Redux: A Private Man Bursts Back Into the Public Eye
		Russell had won two National Collegiate Athletic Association championships at the University of San Francisco, an Olympic gold medal and 11 National Basketball Association titles in 13 years, but Jordan's Chicago Bulls, with six titles in eight years, had come to symbolize the greatest generation.
		Russell Redux is, in essence, a product relaunch designed to emphasize Russell's championship pedigree, not to deal with his image, ingrained with the public as enigmatic and aloof.
		Russell's name had not been on HBO's radar screen as a possible subject because network executives assumed he was unavailable.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/sports/basketball/061600bkn-russell.html (1294 words)

	Bill Russell: My Life, My Way Synopsis - Moviefone
		Bill Russell was one of the most successful players in the history of American basketball.
		Bill Russell: My Life, My Way explores Russell's life and career as both an athlete and an activist, with the reclusive Russell discussing himself on-camera, alongside contributions from his family, friends, and teammates, including Auerbach, Jim Brown, Bob Cousy, John Thompson, and Tom Heinsohn.
		Bill Russell: My Life, My Way was produced for HBO Sports, which first aired the documentary on April 17, 2000.
	movies.aol.com /movie/bill-russell-my-life-my-way/1153879/synopsis?date=20061021 (201 words)

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