The Lakers may have lost Baylor, but they did have a balanced, mature, and experienced team with Hairston and second-year player Jim McMillian as forwards, Chamberlain in the pivot, and West and ...

New York selected future Hall of Fame RB John Riggins with the sixth overall pick in the first round. Riggins became the first Jet in history to attain a 1,000-yard season when he galloped for 1,005 ...

The 36th NFL Draft was held over two days, Jan. 28-29, 1971, with the Belmont Plaza Hotel in New York serving as headquarters. The selections started at 10:02 a.m. (EST) the first day and ended at ...

History often remembers wars through the cold geometry of maps and the sterile ink of treaties, but for those who survived the tempest of 1971, history is a haunting sensory memory—the acrid scent of ...