On May 15, my hero died. He was a 6 foot 1 black man with deep, dark eyes and broad, striking facial features. For many years, he was a heroin addict, and he died at 53 of heart failure caused by that ...

Earl Manigault, a Harlem basketball legend whose airborne feats, descent into heroin addiction and ultimate redemption was the stuff of myths and movies, died yesterday of a heart condition. He was 53 ...

Earl Manigault was one of the flashiest, most talented basketball players ever to grace the asphalt courts of New York City. Born in Charleston in 1944, Manigault, nicknamed "The Goat," moved to New ...

THE RUCKER TOURNAMENT has spawned a splendid folklore, one that defines blacktop basketball, its grand glories, its fabled failures. And none of them better than Earl (The Goat) Manigault, who’ll be ...

Earl “The Goat” Manigault, the New York City playground legend whose descent into heroin addiction cost him a professional career, died Friday of heart failure at Bellevue Hospital. He was 53. The ...

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"For every Michael Jordan, there's an Earl Manigault" - New York's streetball legend never made it to the NBA because of drugs originally appeared on Basketball Network. There are only a handful of ...

Before he became a hip-hop basketball sneakerhead impresario, before he wrote books about his lifelong love affair with the city game and the shoes players wear on and off the court, before he was ...

Muhammad Ali. Earl Manigault. Caitlin Clark. These three athletes all have been called "The GOAT," but what does that even mean? The term "GOAT" is an acronym for "Greatest of All Time" and is ...

A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his ...

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault ist ein Film von Eriq La Salle mit Don Cheadle, James Earl Jones und Michael Beach aus dem Jahr 1996.