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C Jerry Lucas (National Champ, CBB HOF, NBA HOF)

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The esteemed Mr. Lucas will be sharing his testimony and speaking on his memory program at Crosswoods United Methodist Church in Marion, Ohio on August 12th and 13th. He will be speaking during both church services on the 12th at 9 & 11, speaking on family at 6:30 on the 12th and remembering names at 6:30 on the 13th. My parents attend the church and said the event has not been advertised. It's free and they don't expect very many to attend (dad said they'll be lucky if 10 people show up). I can't make it, but it would be a great opportunity to meet him. The church is located at [SIZE=-1]the Carousel Convention Center, 2209 Marion-Waldo Road Marion, Ohio 43302. [/SIZE]
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In 1962, the semi-final game in the NCAA tournament, Wake Forest's Len Chappel took Luca's legs out from under him. A cheap shot, late in the game and with the outcome a foregone conclusion. Lucas came out with his knee wrapped for the fional game and it was obvious from the opening tip that he was not at 100%. Gary Bradds finished the game for him, playing most of the 2nd half.

I don't know if the Bucks could have beaten a tough Cincinnati team with a healthy Jerry Lucas, but I suspect the game would have been closer.

After the game Lucas, despite reporters encouraging him to do so, refused to criticize Len Chappel or to blame his injury for the defeat.

A class act then and now.
 
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Buckeye legend Lucas to speak at local church Sunday, Monday
By SEAN GOLDEN
Sports Writer
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The Ohio native was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated as a teenager and led his basketball teams at Middletown High School to two state championships.

Lucas went on to be "Player of the Year" twice in his career at Ohio State, as well as being a two-time NCAA Final Four MVP.

After winning a national championship for the Buckeyes in 1960, Lucas became a gold-medal winner when he played for the U.S. Olympic team.

In the NBA, Lucas was an All-Star seven times and was named as one of the 50 Greatest Players in the league's history.

In retirement, Lucas has shared his own formula for learning and memory, writing more than 60 books including "The Memory Book," which was on the New York Times best-seller list for more than 50 weeks.
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Lancaster Eagle-Gazette - www.lancastereaglegazette.com - Lancaster, OH
 
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Lucas talks about memory
Former OSU, NBA great tells all how to remember things
By SEAN GOLDEN
Sports Writer
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Lucas lives in San Francisco but travels around the country giving talks like the one he delivered to the audience at The Rose of Sharon church.

He still keeps tabs on the Buckeyes' sports teams, and he attended a basketball game in Columbus during Ohio State's Final Four season this year.

"I thought it was a great team, an excellent team," Lucas said. "It's a shame they couldn't stay together longer."
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Lancaster Eagle-Gazette - www.lancastereaglegazette.com - Lancaster, OH
 
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NBA great Lucas a winner at every level

Will Toman

Issue date: 5/29/08 Section: Sports


At every level, former Ohio State basketball legend Jerry Lucas was a winner.

"I was very fortunate to be in the right place at the right time with great coaching and great teammates and it's satisfying," said Lucas, who is one of the few to win a high school, college, Olympics and NBA championship.

It was more than good fortune according to OSU teammate Bobby Knight, a substitute on the Buckeyes 1960 NCAA championship team and three-time championship coach at Indiana University.

"Jerry was the best player ever to play in the Big Ten," Knight said. "He also had the best hands going after the ball. He had the ability, skill and timing to keep the ball alive on the backboard on a tip and then gain control and put it back in the basket."
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Former New York Knicks player Jerry Lucas talks to the congregation of the World Overcomers Church in Bartlett about finding God and a new learning system.
Gilbert R. Boucher II | Staff Photographer


Former NBA star talks about God, learning
By Sheila Ahern | Daily Herald StaffContact writer
Published: 7/21/2008

Instead he found God and became "Dr. Memory."

Lucas - who played for Ohio State University and went on to be one of the best NBA forwards ever during the late 1960s - spoke to a congregation at the World Overcomers Church in Bartlett on Sunday about his faith and new way of learning.

Lucas, 68, is a three-time All-American who in 1960 starred on Ohio State's national championship team and the U.S. gold-medal squad at the Olympics in Rome. He was also on the 1973 New York Knicks world championship team and inducted into the basketball hall of fame in 1979.

When he wasn't playing basketball, Lucas memorized portions of the Manhattan phone book and the entire New Testament in the Bible. As a kid, he found he liked to take words apart and then respell them alphabetically in rapid-fire order. For example his name would spell E-J-R-R-Y A-C-L-S-U.

"It was all absolutely useless, but that's the mind God gave me," Lucas told the congregation on Sunday.

Lucas also talked about his image-based memory learning and said that schools have it all wrong because teachers stress repetition to memorize rules and spelling.

"Everything you learn is in your mind," Lucas said. "If I say don't picture a zebra, you can't do it, it's impossible not to. I say don't picture a giraffe and there it is. Learning only becomes difficult when you go to school."

Lucas grew up in Middleton, Ohio and his family was not religious. They never went to church or prayed, Lucas said. It wasn't until after college when he was playing professional basketball that Lucas decided something was missing in his life.
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Daily Herald | Former NBA star talks about God, learning
 
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OSU basketball legend Jerry Lucas speaks about learning, memory
By SEAN GOLDEN ? Sports Writer ? August 5, 2008

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BALTIMORE - The methods for improving one's memory were nothing new for Baltimore resident Danny McCoy.

McCoy, 57, already had read much of the material that Ohio State basketball legend and "Dr. Memory" Jerry Lucas summarized for a crowd of more than 150 at Fairfield Christian Church's North Campus.

McCoy came for a different reason.

"I have personally been working on my memory for over 15 years," McCoy said. "So it was even more exciting to be here. To be successful in life you're going to have to remember peoples names and faces."

Lucas was energetic and enthusiastic as he stood in the center aisle on Monday, telling those in attendance how to recall the names of new acquaintances using visual learning clues.

Lucas, who has written more than 60 books on the topic of improving memory, used a slide show on the church's projection screen to provide the images used in his tutorial.
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OSU basketball legend Jerry Lucas speaks about learning, memory | lancastereaglegazette.com | Lancaster Eagle Gazette
 
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Jerry Lucas tells Vols to get M-A-D

Pearl stops workout for former NBA star

By Mike Griffith (Contact)
Originally published 09:22 p.m., August 25, 2008
Updated 09:22 p.m., August 25, 2008

Tennessee men's basketball coach Bruce Pearl bounded into his office excitedly Monday afternoon after the Vols completed the first day of individual workouts.
"Do you know who came here today? Jerry Lucas!'' Pearl said, clearly starstruck. "The Jerry Lucas. He came in halfway through our last individual workout session, and I just canceled everything. I said, 'we're done, get everyone out of the weight room, too, and bring them up here to listen to this man.' ''
Lucas, a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame and recognized as one of the top 50 NBA players of all-time, was still in Knoxville after a weekend with Grace Baptist Church, Pearl said.
"He's a guy who averaged 20 points and 20 rebounds per game for four straight (NBA) seasons, and he won championships at every level: high school (Middletown, Ohio), NCAA (Ohio State), NBA (New York Knicks) and even a gold medal in the 1960 Rome Olympics.
"It's just ridiculous what he did; I told the guys, 'you're looking at yesterday's Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant.' He was also Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year (1961).''

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I met Lucas this past Monday in Pettisville (NW Ohio) after he did a seminar about how to learn peoples names and faces.

It was a great seminar but even better was a chance to see someone with such great priorities. Here is a man that could be making millions and he comes to invest his time in less than 200 people in a small church in NW Ohio for free.

Another great example of Success from Tressel's Book. "... define success as the inner satisfaction and peace of mind that comes from knowing you did the best you were capable of doing for the group."

I feel privileged to be in Jerry Lucas's group.
 
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Leadership similar to car according to Lucas

Green, Ohio -
Great leadership skills are found in your car.

Yes, really - if you know which tangible objects to remember.

Jerry Lucas, known best for winning championships with the Ohio State Buckeyes and New York Knicks, talked at the Ohio Prestwick Country Club on Oct. 23 for the Northeastern Ohio Celebrity Luncheon Club.

His speech talked about leadership and Lucas also touched on education, and the way people learn.

Lucas said in order to be a good leader one can look at the parts of his car to remember what it takes. He broke down the different parts of the car in this way. These apply to the leaders of any business, family, team or organization.

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