Famous Players and Fans
The 36ers have had many famous players in their history with Australian Boomers and/or Olympic Games representatives. Peter Ali, Darryl Pearce, Mark Bradtke, Mark Davis, Mike McKay, Brett Maher, Brett Wheeler, Adam Gibson and Phil Smyth all having played for the club along with former NBA players Luke Schenscher, Kevin Brooks, Jo Jo English, Rick Brunson, Darnell Mee, Robert Rose and Julius Hodge. Bradtke and Schenscher have played both for the Boomers and in the NBA.
Famous fans include television presenter Grant Denyer, former world number one tennis player, Adelaide-born Lleyton Hewitt and Philadelphia musician/writer John Sharkey III.
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Famous quotes containing the words famous, players and/or fans:
“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
The quatrain refers to the famous case of Lizzie Borden, tried for the murder of her father and stepmother on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she was found innocent, there were many who contested the verdict, occasioning a prodigious output of articles and books, including, most recently, Frank Spiering’s Lizzie (1985)
“I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides, I have contempt for a game in which players have to wear so much equipment. Men play basketball in their underwear, which seems just right to me.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“My beautiful, my own
My only Venice—this is breath! Thy breeze
Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face!
Thy very winds feel native to my veins,
And cool them into calmness!”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)