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1979 WBL All-Star Game
The 1979 WBL All-Star Game was a basketball All-star game which was played on March 14, 1979, at the Felt Forum in New York, during the 1978–79 WBL season. The East team was coached by Don Knoedel of the Houston Angels while the Midwest was coached by Doug Bruno of the Chicago Hustle. Three players were selected from each of the eight teams in the league. After falling behind 18–30 after the first quarter, the East team won the game, 112–99, behind Althea Gwyn's 19 points and 16 rebounds. Rita Easterling of the Midwest team was named MVP after scoring 19 points and handing out 18 assists. Midwest's Debra Waddy-Rossow finished with a game high 26 points. This was the inaugural All-Star Game of the Women's Professional Basketball League, which was in its first season. Originally, no game was planned for the first year but Bill Byrne, the president and founder of the WBL, decided to organize it few weeks before. The game was broadcast on WOR-TV WWOR-TV (channel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felt Forum
The Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden is a theater located in New York City's Madison Square Garden. It seats between 2,000 and 5,600, and is used for concerts, shows, sports, meetings, and other events. It is located beneath the main Madison Square Garden arena that hosts MSG's larger events. History When the Garden opened in 1968, the theater was known as the Felt Forum, in honor of then-president Irving Mitchell Felt. In the early 1990s, at the behest of then-owner Paramount Communications, the theater was renamed the Paramount Theater after the Paramount Theatre in Times Square had been converted to an office tower. The theater received its next name, The Theater at Madison Square Garden, in the mid-1990s, after Viacom bought Paramount and sold the MSG properties. In 2007, the theater was renamed the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden through a naming rights deal with Washington Mutual. After Washington Mutual's collapse in 2009, the name reverted to The Theater at M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |