One comes easily to mind: Listening to Francis Dayle "Chick" Hearn. Everybody, it seems, has a Chick story. Most are funny, a few are sad, all are memorable. It sometimes seems as if Chick ...

non-call by an official when significant contact has occurred. A dunk with authority, also Chick was the first to use the phrase "slam dunk". The Lakers are playing terribly.

Since Hearn’s death in 2002, the Lakers have designated their home game closest to the Nov. 27 anniversary of his birth in 1916 as Chick Hearn Night. Hearn was the Lakers’ play-by-play ...

A personal accolade to go along with the team’s success is that in 2015, Nickson was admitted to the HHOF. Broadcasters don’t go in next to the players, but they find their place there after winning ...

Unlike most Lakers fans, I did not grow up listening to Chick Hearn. My husband, Dick, and I moved to Los Angeles from Washington DC in 1972. Dick became the new Executive Producer at KTTV.

Since Hearn’s death in 2002, the Lakers have designated their home game closest to the Nov. 27 anniversary of his birth in 1916 as Chick Hearn Night. Hearn was the Lakers’ play-by-play ...

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Everything about Chick Hearn was larger than life, including his reputation which was already imposing when I first heard of him in 1969. Chick was in his ninth season as the voice of the Lakers ...