Sports Then and Now

How Professional Athletes Recover After Practice and Competition

Gambling Among Student-Athletes

Altior Ready to Cement Legacy Among Cheltenham Greats

Iron Man Randy Smith

Remembering the Great Frank Robinson

How the Internet has Influenced Sport

Worst Chelsea Signing During The Roman Abramovich Era

Great Men of Tennis

Posted on January 30, 2010 by Marianne Bevis

In a companion series to ‘Queens of the Court, ‘Great Men of Tennis’ takes a look at the men who have left an indelible mark on tennis.

Don Budge, Wimbledon 1937

Dwight Davis
Bill Tilden
Rene Lacoste
Godfried Von Cramm
Don Budge
Fred Perry
Jack Kramer,
other Musketeers
Pancho Gonzalez
Roy Emerson
Ken Rosewall
Rod Laver
Lew Hoad

Category Great Men of Tennis, Tennis
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Vintage Athlete of the Month

Iron Man Randy Smith
February 2, 2019 | 5:58 pm

The Sports Then and Now Vintage Athlete of the Month may have had a pretty common name, but his iron man streak as an NBA player was anything but ordinary.

In a streak that lasted more than a decade, Randy Smith played in 906 consecutive NBA games to establish an NBA iron man record that lasted more than a decade.

That Smith made it to the NBA at all was somewhat of an underdog story.

A three-sport standout at Bellsport High School in Long Island (basketball, soccer and track), Smith also was a three-sport All-American at Division II Buffalo State College. He helped lead the Bengals to three straight basketball conference championships and a spot in the 1970 Division II Final Four.