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Basketball legend Dave Bing re-elected Detroit mayor in nonpartisan election
Nov 3rd, 2009 - ChicagoTribune
DETROIT (AP) - Professional basketball Hall of Famer Dave Bing has been re-elected Detroit mayor. The 65-year-old Democrat defeated accountant Tom Barrow in Tuesday's nonpartisan general election. Bing's NBA career lasted 12 seasons...
Dave Bing wins Detroit mayoral race
Nov 3rd, 2009 - Freep
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing has won a 4-year term, leading challenger Tom Barrow 58% to 42% with 100% of the votes counted. "Thank you, Detroit," Bing said during his victory speech...
Bing re-elected as Detroit mayor
Nov 3rd, 2009 - The Detroit News
Detroit -- Mayor Dave Bing easily won re-election tonight over challenger Tom Barrow.
With all precincts reporting, Bing garnered 56.27 percent (64,416 votes) to Barrow's 40.67 percent (46,557 votes).
The Rev...Bing wins Detroit mayoral race; Pugh, Brown lead City Council field
Nov 3rd, 2009 - Freep
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing has won a 4-year term, leading challenger Tom Barrow 58% to 42% with about 92% of the votes counted. Former broadcast news reporter Charles Pugh...
Mayor Dave Bing: Can He Stop the Slide?
Sep 24th, 2009 - TIME
At the grand-opening celebration for Gardenview Estates, a $221 million–plus public-housing development on Detroit's northwest side, activist Leila Gregory, 51, took the podium and gushed about all the local celebrities in attendance...
Dave Bing videos from YouTube:
0:311987 - Seagram's Game Breakers - Dave Bing
What a smooth scorer Bing was.
1:00NBA at 50: Dave Bing (Biography)
A biography of Dave Bing, the first guard in NBA history to score 2000 points in a season.
5:45OTL Dave Bing
Jemele Hill talks to Detroit mayoral candidate, Dave Bing.
2:20Dave Bing plays "Yellow Barber" at The Wolf Folk Club
Dave Bing the famous West Virginia fiddler plays "Yellow Barber" at The Wolf Folk Club in Norfolk UK. He is accompanied by his guitarist friend John Preston.
Dave Bing from WikiPedia:
David Bing (born November 24, 1943, in Washington, D.C.) is the mayor of Detroit, Michigan and a retired American professional basketball player in the NBA, primarily for the Detroit Pistons from 1966 to 1975. He was a seven-time All-Star.
His number 21 was retired by the Detroit Pistons, and in 1996 he was named as one of the NBA's 50 Greatest Players of all time.
He was elected mayor of Detroit on May 5, 2009 and was sworn in on May 11, 2009.
Dave Bing's career began in 1959 at Spingarn High School in Washington D.C., where he was a three-year letter winner, all–Inter High, All-Metro, and All-East member. In 1962, Bing was in Parade magazine and made the All-American Team. He attended Syracuse University, where he led the Orangemen in scoring as a sophomore (22.2) in 1964, as a junior (23.2) in 1965, and as a senior (28.4) in 1966. During his senior year, Bing was fifth in the nation in scoring and was Syracuse's first consensus All-American in 39 years. He was also named to The Sporting News All-America First Team and was named Syracuse Athlete of the Year.
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