Sam Harris (basketball)

Sam Harris (born 3 May 1984) is an Australian former professional basketball player who played two seasons in the National Basketball League (NBL). At 7'3" (221 cm), he is the tallest player ever to play in the National Basketball League.

Basketball career

Early years

Growing up in the Launceston suburb of Newnham, Harris played junior basketball for the NW Tasmania Thunder and later joined their senior team in 2001 for the SEABL season. From 2002 to 2004, Harris attended the Australian Institute of Sport and Lake Ginninderra College in Canberra. Then from 2004 to 2008, he played college basketball for Old Dominion University in the United States on a four-year scholarship. Upon graduating from ODU, he returned home to Tasmania where he played for the NW Tasmania Thunder again in 2008 and 2009. He also played for the Singapore Slingers in 2008–09 during their International Challenge Series.

NBL

Harris joined the Perth Wildcats as a training player for the 2009–10 NBL season. He was elevated to the full squad early in the season as an injury replacement for Paul Rogers but returned to a training player role following the club's acquisition of Galen Young. He stuck around with the club for the rest of the season and subsequently became an NBL champion when the Wildcats defeated the Wollongong Hawks in the Grand Final series. In six games for the Wildcats, he averaged one point and 1.2 rebounds per game. In the NBL off-season, he joined the East Perth Eagles for the 2010 SBL season.

Sam H. Harris

Sam H. Harris (February 3, 1872 – July 3, 1941) was a Broadway producer and theater owner.

Career

After a stint as a cough drop salesman and boxing manager, Harris's first production was Theodore Kremer's The Evil That Men Do co-produced with Al Woods in 1903. Harris found success in 1904 as the producing partner of George M. Cohan, with whom he produced eighteen Broadway musicals, fifteen of which were Cohan's own. From 1916 to 1919, most of the these productions were in the Chandler Theater on 42nd street, renamed the Cohan and Harris Theater in 1916.

Harris separated from Cohan after a 1919 actors strike, and renamed the theater the Sam H. Harris Theatre. He sold it in 1926 to the Shubert Organization, but it continued to operate under the Harris name until 1933 when it was converted to a movie house.

He proposed a musical revue to his friend Irving Berlin in 1919, and with him built the Music Box Theatre in 1921, specially for Berlin's Music Box Revue. His estate held an interest in the theater through 1960. On Harris's death, most shares in the theater were sold to Berlin and to the Shubert Organization.

Get Here

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Get Here (album)

Get Here is the fourth studio album by the American singer/songwriter Brenda Russell. Released in 1988, it is Russell's most successful album to date and includes her hit single "Piano in the Dark".

Album History

After the release of her third album, Two Eyes (1983), Russell moved to Stockholm, Sweden and began writing songs for her fourth album in 1984. Working with several producers and recorded at ten different studios in Stockholm and Los Angeles, the album was ultimately released in 1988 and saw Russell return to the A&M Records label that had released her first two solo albums in 1979 and 1981 (her 1983 album had been released via Warner Bros.). The album peaked at #49 on the US Billboard 200 and #20 on the Billboard R&B chart.

The first single from the album was the ballad "Piano in the Dark", released in February 1988. The single, which featured vocals by Joe "Bean" Esposito, became (and remains) Russell's biggest hit, peaking at #6 on the US Billboard 100 and was also a Top 30 hit in the UK (#23), as well as earning Grammy nominations for "Song of the Year" and "Best Pop Duo Performance" (Russell would also garner a nomination for "Best Pop Female Vocal" for Get Here). Other singles from the album include "Le Restaurant" (featuring David Sanborn on saxophone) and the dance track "Gravity". The title track of the album was also released as a single and was a minor R&B hit. It was later recorded by Oleta Adams and became a huge trans-Atlantic hit for her in 1991 (US #5, UK #4).

Sam Harris (disambiguation)

Sam Harris (born 1967) is an American author, philosopher, and neuroscientist.

Other notable people named Sam Harris include:

See also

Sam Harris (rugby)

Samuel Richard "Sam" Harris (born 30 January 1980) is a former professional rugby footballer. He played representative rugby league for Sydney and in the National Rugby League for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles and Wests Tigers clubs. His usual position was in the second row. Harris also played rugby union for the NSW Waratahs in the Super 14 competition.

Harris' only representative appearance in rugby league came in 2004 when he played for City in the annual City v. Country match. His first match for the Wests Tigers was their loss to the Bradford Bulls in the 2006 World Club Challenge.

He returned to rugby union in 2007 when he signed on with the Waratahs franchise for the 2007 Super 14 competition playing at centre alongside another New Zealand-born centre, Morgan Turinui.

Career highlights

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