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In October 2005, Monroe opened a restaurant in New York City, named "Earl Monroe's Restaurant & Pearl Club". However, Monroe has since revoked the licensing rights to his name and the restaurant is now called The River Room. [37] Monroe, his brother and his sister all have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. [38]
Dwayne Alonzo "Pearl" Washington (January 6, 1964 – April 20, 2016) was an American professional basketball player. He was a 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m), 190 pounds (86 kg) guard . Early life
Notably, along with teammate Earl "the Pearl" Monroe, Blunt's stellar basketball career was led by his mentor and coach, the legendary Clarence "Big House" Gaines. In 2012, Blunt was honored as the Inaugural Inductee into the Delaware Blue/Gold Basketball Hall of Fame.
One of the sole remaining survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack that launched World War II disobeyed orders and fought back. Now 100 years old, he continues to share his stories. A legacy of valor ...
Earl Manigault (September 7, 1944 – May 15, 1998) was an American street basketball player who was nicknamed "the Goat" or "the Lip". He is widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players never to have played in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
He also idolized players such as Earl Monroe and Marques Haynes, [30] and practiced "all day". [31] Johnson came from an athletic family. His father played high school basketball in his home state of Mississippi, [ 32 ] and Johnson learned the finer points about the game from him.
Walter "Clyde" Frazier Jr. (born March 29, 1945) is an American former professional basketball player of the National Basketball Association (NBA). As their floor general and top perimeter defender, he led the New York Knicks to the franchise's only two championships (1970 and 1973), and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1987.
MS Pearl, a cruise ship built in 1967, originally called the MS Finlandia, now the MS Golden Princess; Norwegian Pearl, a Norwegian Cruise Lines cruise ship built in 2006; X-Press Pearl, an X-Press Feeders containership that sank off Sri Lanka in 2021; The Pearl, a schooner in the Pearl incident, a slave escape attempt