The Providence Steamrollers were a National Basketball Association team based in Providence, Rhode Island. As of July 2012, the Steamrollers remain the last pro sports franchise from one of the Big Four leagues to be based in Rhode Island.
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“The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of the snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda,—these are in the system, and our habits like theirs. You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity, expensive races,—race living at the expense of race.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)