Back Sports Page – Beyond The Athlete: Jalen Rose
February 9, 2011 | General Latest News Press
Written By Seth Kamens
February 4, 2011
Jalen Rose has always been ahead of the curve. After a brilliant college and solid professional career, Rose has succeeded in a variety of ventures, both professional and philanthropic. Currently a successful NBA analyst for ESPN, Rose reminisced about his college and pro careers, his transition into media, and a multitude of other topics.
Rose was a basketball prodigy at SouthWestern High School in Detroit and would eventually join the most singularly important recruiting class in the history of college basketball – the “Fab Five.” Rose, Juwan Howard, Chris Webber, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson were all major recruits to Steve Fisher’s University of Michigan program. In fact, only Jackson was not a Top 10 recruit. Prior to joining Michigan, Rose was heavily recruited by UNLV. Interestingly, he watched the famous 1991 Duke-UNLV national semifinal in the basement of UNLV star shooting guard Anderson Hunt (a high school teammate). Led by Rose and Webber, Michigan would stunningly find itself in the final the following year against that same senior-laden Blue Devil team. Even Rose would admit, “Duke was just a better team, though after the UNLV …
Jalen to Participate in 2011 NBA All-Star Celebrity Game
February 1, 2011 | General Latest News Press The Rose Report
Stars of all stripes mix it up on court in annual funfest…
What: 2011 BBVA NBA All-Star Celebrity Game
When: Friday, Feb. 18, 7 p.m. ET
Where: Jam Session, Center Court, Los Angeles Convention Center
TV: ESPN
The 2011 BBVA NBA All-Star Celebrity Game is a chance for luminaries from the entertainment world to mix with athletes past and present. The game this year in Los Angeles promises to bring out the biggest and brightest.
This year, comedian Jimmy Kimmel will serve as general manager for one team, with ESPN personality and columnist Bill Simmons heading the other. This year’s celebrity participants include a cast of players from sports, film, TV, and music:
• Jalen Rose (ESPN Analyst and NBA legend)
• ESPN Analyst Magic Johnson (NBA legend and Hall of Famer)
• Grammy-nominated artist Justin Bieber (pop artist)
• Scottie Pippen (NBA legend and Hall of Famer)
• Bill Walton (NBA legend and Hall of Famer)
• AC Green (NBA legend)
• B.J. Armstrong (NBA legend)
• Chris Mullin (ESPN Analyst and NBA legend)
• Jimmy Kimmel (“Jimmy Kimmel Live!”)
• Ty Burrell (“Modern Family”)
• Rob Kardashian (“Keeping Up with the Kardashians”)
• Zach Levi (“Chuck”)
• Jason Alexander (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”)
• Common (Just Wright)
• Bill …
Members of Michigan’s Fab Five honored at Crisler Arena – November 21, 2010
November 22, 2010 | General Latest News Press
Members of Michigan’s Fab Five honored at Crisler Arena
BY MARK SNYDER
FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER
As far as Jimmy King can recall, it has happened only one time.
The Fab Five, the Michigan basketball sensation who spent their first two years of college in 1992 and 1993 attached at the hip reaching NCAA title games and changing parts of the basketball culture, have reunited once as a unit.
King recalled a Jalen Rose 2003 charity game in Chicago as the only time all the members of the Fab Five — King, Rose, Ray Jackson, Juwan Howard and Chris Webber — had reunited since their era ended at U-M in 1995.
When Rose, King and Jackson were honored at halftime of the Michigan/Gardner-Webb game today — brought together as part of the Legends Classic — it showed another step toward the group’s reconnection with the university. The trio were given navy blue Michigan jackets and honorary plaques.
But, as with most of the past 15 years since the Ed Martin booster scandal became public, involving Webber, there was a large piece missing.
Howard is playing with the …
