Reggie Lewis Center
The Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center (RLTAC) is an indoor track and indoor basketball stadium in Roxbury, Massachusetts, partially funded by the state of Massachusetts. It is home to numerous Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association, MIAA indoor track and field conferences, along with the MIAA State Championships and the New England High School Championships. Nike Indoor Nationals have been run there since 2008, and the Boston Indoor Games have been run there since their inception. USATF Masters Indoor Championships have been held at the facilities several times. History The Center was named after Reggie Lewis, a former college basketball player for Northeastern University and professional player for the Boston Celtics. On April 29, 1993, he collapsed on the floor of the Boston Garden while playing a game against the Charlotte Hornets (1988–2002), Charlotte Hornets. On July 27, 1993, he suffered sudden cardiac death during an off-season practice at Brandeis Univ ...
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Roxbury, Boston
Roxbury () is a neighborhood within the City of Boston, Massachusetts. Roxbury is a dissolved municipality and one of 23 official neighborhoods of Boston used by the city for neighborhood services coordination. The city states that Roxbury serves as the "heart of Black culture in Boston."Roxbury
" City of Boston. Retrieved on May 2, 2009. Roxbury was one of the first towns founded in the in 1630, and became a city in 1846 before being annexed to Boston on January 5, 1868.Roxbury History
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