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Diane Watson: “I come to support two champions who will have post offices named after them. First I would like to support H.R. 5340 and…”

On the recordOctober 7, 2002
I come to support two champions who will have post offices named after them. First I would like to support H.R. 5340 and sportscaster legend Chick Hearn. I represented the Lakers for many a year in Inglewood while Chick Hearn was at his finest, and I feel very close to that voice even in death, because his was the voice representing a real sportsman's spirit; and he was able to educate, train, and mentor almost everyone who heard him in sportsmanship. As the gentleman from California expressed, he coined many phrases that are used today. Our younger people will grow up parroting those phrases and appreciating good sportsmanship and good women in sports as well. Our women's basketball team played in that same sports arena while I represented that area; and I am so very, very proud of what he was able to put forth to them in the line of sportsmanship and in the line of broadcasting what good sports was all about.
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Diane Watson
California
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Supporting the naming of post offices after sportscaster Chick Hearn.

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