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These Team Pictures
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AND1
AND1 is an American athletic shoe company specializing in basketball shoes and apparel. Founded in 1993, the company’s headquarters were located in Paoli, Pennsylvania before being relocated to Aliso Viejo, California.
In 1993, AND1 began as a graduate school project partnership of Seth Berger, Jay Coen Gilbert and Tom Austin while they were graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. The company name is derived from a phrase used by basketball broadcasters: when a player is fouled while shooting, makes the shot and makes the awarded foul shot as well, they score the points for the made basket “and 1” for the made free throw. Early advertising strategies, used to distinguish their products from others, included other basketball slogans and trash talk, such as “Pass. Save Yourself The Embarrassment”.
In mid of 1996, NBA star Stephon Marbury became the first spokesman for AND1.
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Stump The Schwab
Stump the Schwab is an American game show that aired on ESPN Classic (originally ESPN 2). The show ran from July 8, 2004 to September 29, 2006 and featured three contestants trying to stump Howie Schwab, who was the first statistician ESPN ever had. Stuart Scott was the show’s host.
Each episode of the show had three rounds, “Leading Off”, a second round that featured a different game each time, and “The Schwab Showdown.” After each of the first two rounds, the contestant with the lowest score was eliminated.
“The Schwab”‘s record in the “Schwab Showdown” over the show’s four season run was 64-16. Click here to watch a clip from the show ยป
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