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มีการสปอยเนื้อหาบางส่วนของซีรีส์!
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"Harry นักเขียนนิยาย ตัดสินใจหอบครอบครัวมาอาศัยในเมือง Provincetown รัฐ Massachusetts บนคาบสมุทรเคปค้อด ด้วยหวังว่าบรรยากาศอันเงียบสงบของเมืองจะช่วยให้เขาสามารถเขียนงานได้ ที่นั้นเขาได้ยินข่าวการฆาตกรรมในเมืองข้างเคียงที่ชื่อ Truro ถึงสภาพศพเหยื่อที่มีลักษณะเหมือนถูกกัดกินจากสัตว์ร้าย... Harry กำลังจะได้เผชิญหน้ากับตำนานเมืองอันน่าสะพรึงขวัญซึ่งเกี่ยวโยงกับแวมไพร์ รวมไปถึงยาประหลาดที่สามารถบันดาลความคิดสร้างสรรค์ให้ผู้เสพได้ หากต้องแลกมาด้วยการกลายพันธุ์เป็นสิ่งมีชีวิตประหลาดกระหายเลือดแทน!"
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ทุกคนทราบ แฟนคลับทราบ ว่าซีรีส์ American Horror Story ชอบหยิบยกเรื่องจริงชวนสยองในประวัติศาสตร์อเมริกามายำใหญ่ใส่จริตบิดพริ้วเพื่ออรรถรส ดังที่เราจะเห็นในซีซึ่นเก่า ๆ ทั้งฆาตกรรม Black Dahlia, คฤหาสน์ทรมานทาสของ Madame Lalaurie, โรงแรมปลิดชีพ the Cecil Hotel ฯลฯ
แล้วในซีซึ่น 10 ล่ะ ซ้อไรอัน และคณะหยิบยกเอาเรื่องสยองอะไรมาใส่ไว้ไหม
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คำตอบคือมีแน่นอน และคราวนี้มาจากฆาตกรโหดที่ได้รับฉายาว่าเป็น "แวมไพร์แห่งคาบสมุทรเคปค้อด" จากพฤติกรรมวิปริตในการสังหาร และทรมานเหยื่อนั้นเอง
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ปี 1969 ชาวบ้านละแวกคาบสมุทรเคปค้อด ในรัฐแมตซาซูเซตส์ ต้องมีอันอกสั่นขวัญผวา เมื่อพบศพหญิงสาวนามว่า Susan Perry ในสภาพถูกหั่นเป็นชิ้น ๆ ในสุสานเก่าแก่ประจำเมืองทรูโร ไม่นานนับจากนั้น ตำรวจก็พบศพนักท่องเที่ยวสาว 2 คน Patricia Walsh และ Mary Anne Wysocki และหญิงเคราะห์อีก 1 ราย Sydney Monson ในสภาพน่าเวทนาไม่ต่างกัน
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จากการสืบสวนของตำรวจ พบว่ามีบุคคลผู้หนึ่งที่มีความเชื่อมโยงกับเหยื่อทั้ง 4 นั้นก็คือ ช่างซ่อมนามว่า Tony Costa
- เขาเคยคบหากับ Susan ก่อนที่เธอจะหายตัวไป
- เขาอาศัยอยู่ในหอพักเดียวกับสองสาวนักท่องเที่ยวก่อนที่พวกเธอจะหายตัวไปเช่นกัน
- และที่สำคัญที่สุด ชิ้นส่วนศพของ 3 สาว Patricia, Mary Anne และ Sydney ถูกพบในเขตพื้นที่ส่วนตัวของเขาที่ใช้เป็นที่ปลูกกัญชา
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แม้คำกล่าวที่ว่าฆาตกรฆ่าต่อเนื่องส่วนใหญ่ มีปมปัญหาทางใจในวัยเด็ก อาจจะฟังดูซ้ำซาก แต่ก็ต้องยอมรับว่าปูมหลังของ Tony เป็นไปตามเงื่อนไขดังกล่าว
ในวัย 7 ขวบ เด็กชายโทนี่ผู้กำพร้าพ่อ มักบอกแม่ตัวเองเสมอว่ามีผู้ชายบุกเข้ามาหาเขาในห้องนอนยามดึก ในเวลาต่อมาเขาจึงทราบว่าชายผู้นั้นคือพ่อตัวเองที่เสียชีวิตไปตอนสงครามโลกครั้งที่ 2 จากการเห็นรูปถ่ายพ่อในภายหลัง
ในวัย 12 ปี เขาตกเป็นเหยื่อการล่วงละเมิดทางเพศจากเด็กวัยรุ่นที่มีอายุมากกว่า
พฤติกรรมรุนแรงของ Tony เริ่มขึ้นเมื่อเขาอายุ 16 เขาบุกเข้าไปในอะพาร์ตเมนต์ของผู้หญิงที่ตนเองแอบชอบ พยายามใช้กำลังลักพาตัวเธอออกมา แต่กลับถูกขัดขวางจากเพื่อนบ้านเสียก่อน
นับตั้งแต่นั้น Tony ก็ดูเหมือนเป็นไม้เบื่อไม้เมากับตำรวจ เขาก่อคดีลักทรัพย์ และทำร้ายร่างกาย ถูกคุมความประพฤติ 3 ปี รอลงอาญา 1 ปี
ในวัย 18 ปี Tony แต่งงานกับเด็กสาวอายุ 14 ทั้งคู่มีลูกด้วยกัน 3 คน ชีวิตของเขาทำท่าเหมือนจะดีขึ้น หากไม่ใช่เพราะปัญหาชีวิตครอบครัว จึงทำให้เขาหันไปพึ่งยาเสพย์ติดซึ่งบ่อนทำลายความเป็นคน และปลุกโฉมหน้าอสูรกายในตัวให้ตื่นขึ้น
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นับตั้งแต่ปี 1966 - 1969 ตำรวจ และสื่อเชื่อว่า Tony อยู่เบื้องหลังการหายตัวไปของผู้หญิงจำนวนมากในแมตซาซูเซตส์ และเขาน่าจะลงมือสังหารเหยื่อไปแล้วทั้งหมด 8 ราย นับตั้งแต่คนแปลกหน้าริมทาง แฟนเก่า (Tony มีพฤติกรรมเปลี่ยนผู้หญิงบ่อย) นักท่องเที่ยว ไปจนถึงคู่ขานักเล่นยา
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Edmund Dinis อัยการเขตให้สัมภาษณ์กับสื่อว่า "หัวใจของเหยื่อหายไปจากศพ อีกทั้งยังไม่พบอยู่ในหลุมศพ ศพถูกหั่นออกเป็นหลายชิ้น ทั้งยังปรากฏรอยฟันอยู่บนชิ้นส่วนศพด้วย"
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Tony ถูกวินิจฉัยว่ามีอาการจิตเภทประเภทบุคลิกภาพชนิดแยกตัว (schizoid personality) และอาจพ่วงถึงพฤติกรรมชอบเสพสมศพ และการกินเนื้อมนุษย์ร่วมด้วย แม้ Tony จะต้องสงสัยว่าลงมือสังหารเหยื่อ 8 คน แต่ศาลพิพากษาความผิดเขาเพียงแค่ 2 คดี จากการสังหาร Patricia Walsh และ Mary Anne Wysocki เขาได้รับโทษขังคุกตลอดชีวิตในเรือนจำ
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ในระหว่างถูกคุมขังในเรือนจำ Tony เขียนนิยายขึ้นมาเล่มหนึ่ง (ซึ่งไม่เคยได้รับการตีพิมพ์) ใช้ชื่อว่า Resurrection ซึ่งบรรยายถึงการฆาตกรรม Patricia Walsh และ Mary Anne Wysocki และเหยื่อคนอื่น บางส่วนของนิยายบอกว่าเหยื่อเสพแอลเอสดี และไฮโดรมอร์โฟน นอกจากนั้น Tony ยังอ้างว่าผู้ที่ลงมือสังหารเหยื่อ และหั่นศพ ไม่ใช่ตัวเอง แต่เป็น Carl ตัวตนที่สองของเขา (alter-ego)
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4 ปีหลังจากต้องโทษในเรือนจำ Tony ก็จบชีวิตตัวเองด้วยการแขวนคอตาย เป็นอันจบตำนานฆาตกรแวมไพร์แห่งคาบสมุทรเคปค้อด
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ความเกี่ยวโยงของคดี Tony Costa กับ American Horror Story: Double Feature ตอน Red Tide
- ตัวละครพระเอก และครอบครัว ย้ายมาพักในเมือง Provincetown รัฐ Massachusetts ซึ่งเป็นเมืองที่ Tony เคยพำนักสมัยมีชีวิต
- ในฉากที่พระเอกไปเที่ยวบาร์ เขาได้ยินข่าวลือเรื่องคดีฆาตกรรมชำแหละศพในเมืองข้างเคียงที่ชื่อ Truro ซึ่งเป็นการอ้างอิงถึงคดีของ Tony Costa
- เมืองในซีรีส์ถูกคุกคามจากแวมไพร์ ซึ่งเป็นฉายาของ Tony Costa
- ตัวละครพระเอกเป็นนักเขียนนิยาย ไม่ต่างจาก Tony Costa ที่เขียนนิยายในคุก
- ในซีรีส์มีการอ้างถึงยาประหลาดที่สามารถบันดาลความคิดสร้างสรรค์ได้ ไม่ต่างจากในคดีของ Tony ที่มีการใช้สารเสพติดเข้าร่วม
- ตัวละครพระเอกจะเริ่มกลายพันธุ์หลังใช้ยาประหลาด ไม่ต่างจากพฤติกรรมของ Tony Costa ที่ย่ำแย่ลงหลังจากมีพฤติกรรมเสพยา
- ผลพวงนึงจากการใช้ยาของพระเอกคือ เริ่มมีพฤติกรรมกระหายเลือด ไม่ต่างจากแวมไพร์

เรียบเรียงข้อมูล
https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a37440625/american-horror-story-season-10-true-story-real-life/
http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Psyc%20405/serial%20killers/Costa,%20Antone%20-%20spring,%202006.pdf
https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/Tony_Costa
https://the-line-up.com/tony-costa-garden-of-horror
https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/tony-costa-serial-killer-and-secret-past

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（1）《9-1-1》／Season 2／Fox
（2）《Atypical》（異類）／Season 2／Netflix
（3）《Brooklyn Nine-Nine》（荒唐分局）／Season 5／Fox
（4）《The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story》（美國犯罪故事：凡塞斯遇刺案）／FX
（5）《The Handmaid's Tale》（侍女的故事）／Season 2／Hulu
（6）《The Haunting of the Hill House 》（陰宅異事）／Season 1／Netflix
（7）《13 Reasons Why》（漢娜的遺言）／Season 2／Netflix
（8）《A Series of Unfortunate Events》（尼蒙利斯連環不幸事件）／Season 1／Netflix
（9）《A Very English Scandal》／BBC One
（10）《American Horror Story: Apocalypse》（美國恐怖故事：啟示錄）／FX
（11）《Big Mouth》（青春無密語）／Season 2／Netflix
（12）《Black Mirror》（黑鏡）／Season 4／Netflix
（13）《Bodyguard》（內政保鑣）／Season 1／BBC
（14）《DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow》（明日傳奇）／Season 4／CW
（15）《Genius: Picasso》（世紀天才：畢加索）／National Geographic
（16）《Hawaii Five-0》／Season 9／CBS
（17）《High Maintenance》（特別遞送）／Season 2／HBO
（18）《Into The Badlands》／Season 3／AMC
（19）《Killing Eve》（嗜血嬌娃）／Season 1／BBC
（20）《Legion》／Season 2／FX
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（22）《Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.》（漫威神盾局特工）／Season 5／ABC
（23）《Marvel's Daredevil》（漫威夜魔俠）／Season 3／Netflix
（24）《Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger》／Season 1／Freeform
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สรุปผลรางวัล PGA Producers Guild Awards 2017
La La Land คว้ารางวัลใหญ่สุดไปครอง

Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures:
- LA LA LAND

Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures:
- ZOOTOPIA

Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures:
- O.J.: MADE IN AMERICA

Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television:
- THE PEOPLE V. O.J. SIMPSON: AMERICAN CRIME STORY (SEASON 1)

Outstanding Sports Program:
- VICE WORLD OF SPORTS (SEASON 1)

Outstanding Digital Series:
- COMEDIANS IN CARS GETTING COFFEE (SEASON 7, SEASON 8)

Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama:
- STRANGER THINGS (SEASON 1)

Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Comedy:
- ATLANTA (SEASON 1)

Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television:
- MAKING A MURDERER (SEASON 1)

Outstanding Producer of Competition Television:
- THE VOICE (SEASON 9-11)

Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment & Talk Television:
- LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER (SEASON 3)

Outstanding Children’s Program:
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Phê Phim News: DRAMA Fast & Furious | HOME ALONE và HÀNG LOẠT DỰ ÁN REBOOT CỦA DISNEY

Nội dung: Ngân, Linh, Mai
Giọng đọc: Linh, Ngân
Edit: Nhân

Tin 1: Disney đại lỗ Quý III 2019
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190806005927/en/Walt-Disney-Company-Reports-Quarter-Months-Earnings
Tin 2: Disney điều chỉnh lại kế hoạch sản xuất phim
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/07/movies/disney-home-alone-intl-scli/index.html
https://bit.ly/2OOJFB5
Tin 3: D&D chính thức về Netflix với hợp đồng lên tới 200 triệu đô
https://www.cnet.com/news/game-of-thrones-writers-sign-a-huge-multi-year-deal-with-netflix/
Tin 4: The Rock bị Tyrese Gibson đá đểu lần nữa vì “Hobbs & Shaw"
https://yhoo.it/31mvOmK

Điểm tin:
1. Guillermo del Toro đã có tên trên Đại lộ Danh vọng
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/07/entertainment/guillermo-del-toro-hollywood-star-immigrants-trnd/index.html
2. BAFTA thêm giải Tuyển Chọn Diễn Viên Xuất Sắc Nhất
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bafta-adding-casting-category-2020-film-tv-awards-1229913
3. Halle Bailey lần đầu lên tiếng về vai diễn trong Nàng Tiên Cá live-action
https://www.facebook.com/phephim/photos/a.524687251216110/951994448485386/?type=3&theater
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For those who were there at McDonough Gymnasium on August 4, 1994, few will forget the arrival of a 6-0 freshman guard who needed no introduction. The rumors of Allen Iverson's arrival to the Kenner Summer League were true, and by game's end, Iverson had scored 40 points. By the Sunday afternoon final, before an overflow crowd inside the gym and a crowd of those outside who could not get in, Iverson finished a combined 99 point effort in three days against some of the best collegiate talent in the city. This, of course, from a player that had not played organized basketball in over a year.

The Allen Iverson years had begun.

A brief profile can't do justice to tell the story of one of the greatest pure athletes ever to attend Georgetown, a man without peer in his talent over two years at the collegiate level. Just a year before his Kenner debut, few would have imagined Allen Iverson ever playing college basketball.

Iverson was not only a 31 point a game guard for Bethel HS, but a football player of tremendous skill. As a quarterback and defensive back his sophomore season, he produced nearly 1,600 yards offense and 13 INT's. By his junior year, he accounted for 2,204 yards, 21 touchdowns by rush or interception, and 14 touchdown passes. In a region which has produced NFL quarterbacks such as Michael Vick and Aaron Brooks, there are those who will still say "Bubbachuck" Iverson was better than both of them. Schools such as Arkansas, Kentucky, Duke, and three dozen other top programs across two sports were vying for perhaps the greatest two-sport star the Tidewater had ever produced.

When he led Bethel to the state title, someone asked what it was like to win the title. "I'm going to get one in basketball now," which he did. In late February, 1993, en route to the state title he had promised, Iverson was one of a large group of Bethel teammates at a Hampton bowling alley when a fight broke out between students from rival schools trading racial insults. Three people were hurt in the aftermath. Despite conflicting testimony from eyewitnesses and no clear evidence linking him to the crime, Iverson was one of four black students arrested.

Racial tensions were heightened when the prosecutors passed on a misdemeanor assault charge and charged Iverson with three counts of felony "maiming by mob", which carried a 20 year prison sentence. Despite video evidence which did not place Iverson in the crowd at the time of the fight, he was convicted in a racially charged case.

The 20 year sentence was later reduced to five, and Iverson was granted clemency by Gov. Douglas Wilder three months later, sending Iverson to a detention program at an alternative high school. (The original charges were thrown out by the Virginia court of appeals in 1995.)

In the spring of 1994, with Iverson still in detention, his mother approached John Thompson with a plea to help her son get to college and start a new chapter of his life. Though Thompson had passed on a number of troubled players in the past, he offered Iverson a scholarship in April of that season, contingent upon his completion of high school and his legal release, which was granted 48 hours before his Kenner debut.

By his debut in a Georgetown uniform in November 1994, Iverson had been the subject of intense national media attention. In the Hoyas' annual exhibition with Fort Hood, Iverson scored 36 points, five assists, and three steals in 23 minutes. Local columnists were in awe.

"Hang his number up in the rafters," wrote Tom Knott of the Washington Times. "He's better than most of the point guards in the NBA right now."

"I saw Lew Alcindor, Austin Carr, Moses Malone, Alonzo Mourning, Albert King, Ralph Sampson and Patrick Ewing play in high school," said the Post's Thomas Boswell. "Now, I have two memories on my first impression top shelf. The man who became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Allen Iverson."

Iverson opened the 1994-95 season in Memphis, TN in a 97-79 loss to defending NCAA champion Arkansas, scoring 19 points. Six days later, he scored 31 in a nationally televised game with DePaul, followed by 30 four days later against Providence, leading the team in scoring 22 times that season. His only game under double figures for the season (and his career) was a game where he played only ten minutes in a loss at Villanova, a game Georgetown coach John Thompson threatened to forfeit when a group of Villanova students paraded through the Spectrum in black and white-striped prison garb, with a sign comparing Iverson to O.J. Simpson.

"You accept certain ribbing, but there is a line," Thompson said after the game. "I can condone any Christian university sitting and watching that happen...If that happens [again], I going to walk. It that simple." Such fan behavior was not seen thereafter.

Later in the season, with President Bill Clinton in attendance, Iverson scored 26 as the Hoyas routed Villanova, 77-52. He followed it up with 21 to beat Syracuse, 28 versus St. John's, 31 in a Big East tournament opener with Miami (a game that saw Iverson outscore the entire Hurricane team at the end of the first half), and 27 versus Connecticut in the semis. In the NCAA regional, he scored 24 in the loss, but held Jeff McInnis to 1 for 8 shooting. By season's end, Allen Iverson had been named Big East Player of the Week nine times, Rookie of the Year, a second team all-conference selection, and honorable mention All-America recipient. Having led the Hoyas in points and steals en route to the school's first NCAA regional appearance since 1989, Iverson was already a star. By 1996, he would become nothing less than a sensation.

The leaser of a talented team that featured four future NBA stars, Allen Iverson dominated the 1995-96 season as no Hoya has done before or since. Adept at the crossover dribble that became his NBA trademark, lightning quick to the basket, and able to score on opponents at will, Iverson was largely unstoppable. Even more impressive was an effort to improve his shooting touch, for despite averaging 20.4 points as a freshman in 1994-95 (2nd all time for a Georgetown rookie), Iverson only shot 39 percent from the field, 23 percent from three, and 19 percent from three in Big East play. For his sophomore season, his field shooting increased to 48 percent, his three point mark to 36 percent. The results were striking.

In the pre-season NIT versus Temple, Iverson shot 50 percent for 24 points and a career high 10 rebounds. After a 23 point effort against Georgia Tech, he scored a career high 40 against Arizona, one of two 40+ point games that season. In Big East play, Iverson could ring up points with ease, such as the game where he scored 21 points in only 20 minutes against Rutgers.

In the final three months of the season, Iverson led the team in 21 of the team's 25 games: 40 against Seton Hall, 39 against St. John's, 34 against Providence. He scored 30 in a wild win over Memphis, and followed it up two nights later with 26 in an upset of #3 Connecticut. For the game, Iverson totalled 26 points, 8 steals, and 6 assists, including a soaring dunk past Ray Allen and the Huskies. It was the highest ranked team any Georgetown team had defeated since 1988. His best performance of the season might have been a 37 point, 8 rebound, and three steal effort against #6 ranked Villanova, playing only 27 minutes. The 106-68 win represents the sixth largest margin of victory and the largest margin ever by a Georgetown team against a top 10 opponent.

Iverson was capable of an off game; unfortunately, two came at particularly inopportune times for the Hoyas' hopes for a national title. Entering the 1996 Big East Final with a #1 seed on the line, Iverson shot 4 for 15 and the Hoyas lost by one, 76-75. As a result of the loss, Georgetown was seeded #2 behind top ranked UMass, and in the regional final between the two teams Iverson struggled with a 6 for 21 effort in the loss. For the season, though, his statistics were astonishing: his 926 points broke the then-record by 124 points. He set new single season marks in field goals, field goal attempts, three pointers, three point attempts, steals, minutes, and scoring average (25.0), the latter of which ranked 7th in the nation that season. The Big East's defensive player of the year, he was named a consensus All-American amidst numerous other awards.

If he could somehow have stayed four years, Iverson undoubtedly would have shredded the Georgetown record books. But whatever hopes existed for Iverson to resist the lure of the NBA were short lived, particularly with the news that one of his sisters had fallen ill. Seeing the opportunity to take care of his family's medical needs, Iverson announced for the NBA draft soon after the end of his sophomore season, becoming the first Georgetown player in the Thompson era to do so. The compact that had bound so many great Hoya players to a four year commitment--from Ewing to Williams, Mourning to Mutombo--had now been broken.

The first pick in the 1996 NBA draft, Iverson signed a $3.9 million contract with the Philadelphia 76ers and a ten year, $50 million deal with Reebok. His effort on the court is well known and respected, but for all the media portrayals of Iverson as the anti-hero, an icon of a "Hip Hop Nation" that ran counter to the NBA's carefully constructed marketing image, or as a symbol of all that is allegedly wrong in professional basketball, he remains remarkably well-grounded.

Married for six years and the father of two, Iverson is fiercely loyal to his teammates and to his childhood friends. He considered it an honor to play for the U.S. Olympic team in 2004 when other NBA stars passed on the offer, and maintains a number of charity events to benefit his local community. In comparison to his NBA career, his years at Georgetown were largely free of the intense media and personal scrutiny, providing at least two years where he could grow as a person as well as a basketball player.

His arrival and exit at Georgetown is still a source of debate in some circles, but his performance on the court is not. Allen Iverson found a home, even briefly, at the Hilltop, and remains one of its brightest stars. "In my heart, I know I'm a basketball player," Iverson said following his 2006 NBA trade, "being that I know I can play with the best of them."

From that first Kenner League game on 1994, no one has doubted it since.

For those who were there at McDonough Gymnasium on August 4, 1994, few will forget the arrival of a 6-0 freshman guard who needed no introduction. The rumors of Allen Iverson's arrival to the Kenner Summer League were true, and by game's end, Iverson had scored 40 points. By the Sunday afternoon final, before an overflow crowd inside the gym and a crowd of those outside who could not get in, Iverson finished a combined 99 point effort in three days against some of the best collegiate talent in the city. This, of course, from a player that had not played organized basketball in over a year.

The Allen Iverson years had begun.

A brief profile can't do justice to tell the story of one of the greatest pure athletes ever to attend Georgetown, a man without peer in his talent over two years at the collegiate level. Just a year before his Kenner debut, few would have imagined Allen Iverson ever playing college basketball.

Iverson was not only a 31 point a game guard for Bethel HS, but a football player of tremendous skill. As a quarterback and defensive back his sophomore season, he produced nearly 1,600 yards offense and 13 INT's. By his junior year, he accounted for 2,204 yards, 21 touchdowns by rush or interception, and 14 touchdown passes. In a region which has produced NFL quarterbacks such as Michael Vick and Aaron Brooks, there are those who will still say "Bubbachuck" Iverson was better than both of them. Schools such as Arkansas, Kentucky, Duke, and three dozen other top programs across two sports were vying for perhaps the greatest two-sport star the Tidewater had ever produced.

When he led Bethel to the state title, someone asked what it was like to win the title. "I'm going to get one in basketball now," which he did. In late February, 1993, en route to the state title he had promised, Iverson was one of a large group of Bethel teammates at a Hampton bowling alley when a fight broke out between students from rival schools trading racial insults. Three people were hurt in the aftermath. Despite conflicting testimony from eyewitnesses and no clear evidence linking him to the crime, Iverson was one of four black students arrested.

Racial tensions were heightened when the prosecutors passed on a misdemeanor assault charge and charged Iverson with three counts of felony "maiming by mob", which carried a 20 year prison sentence. Despite video evidence which did not place Iverson in the crowd at the time of the fight, he was convicted in a racially charged case.

The 20 year sentence was later reduced to five, and Iverson was granted clemency by Gov. Douglas Wilder three months later, sending Iverson to a detention program at an alternative high school. (The original charges were thrown out by the Virginia court of appeals in 1995.)

In the spring of 1994, with Iverson still in detention, his mother approached John Thompson with a plea to help her son get to college and start a new chapter of his life. Though Thompson had passed on a number of troubled players in the past, he offered Iverson a scholarship in April of that season, contingent upon his completion of high school and his legal release, which was granted 48 hours before his Kenner debut.

By his debut in a Georgetown uniform in November 1994, Iverson had been the subject of intense national media attention. In the Hoyas' annual exhibition with Fort Hood, Iverson scored 36 points, five assists, and three steals in 23 minutes. Local columnists were in awe.

"Hang his number up in the rafters," wrote Tom Knott of the Washington Times. "He's better than most of the point guards in the NBA right now."

"I saw Lew Alcindor, Austin Carr, Moses Malone, Alonzo Mourning, Albert King, Ralph Sampson and Patrick Ewing play in high school," said the Post's Thomas Boswell. "Now, I have two memories on my first impression top shelf. The man who became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Allen Iverson."

Iverson opened the 1994-95 season in Memphis, TN in a 97-79 loss to defending NCAA champion Arkansas, scoring 19 points. Six days later, he scored 31 in a nationally televised game with DePaul, followed by 30 four days later against Providence, leading the team in scoring 22 times that season. His only game under double figures for the season (and his career) was a game where he played only ten minutes in a loss at Villanova, a game Georgetown coach John Thompson threatened to forfeit when a group of Villanova students paraded through the Spectrum in black and white-striped prison garb, with a sign comparing Iverson to O.J. Simpson.

"You accept certain ribbing, but there is a line," Thompson said after the game. "I can condone any Christian university sitting and watching that happen...If that happens [again], I going to walk. It that simple." Such fan behavior was not seen thereafter.

Later in the season, with President Bill Clinton in attendance, Iverson scored 26 as the Hoyas routed Villanova, 77-52. He followed it up with 21 to beat Syracuse, 28 versus St. John's, 31 in a Big East tournament opener with Miami (a game that saw Iverson outscore the entire Hurricane team at the end of the first half), and 27 versus Connecticut in the semis. In the NCAA regional, he scored 24 in the loss, but held Jeff McInnis to 1 for 8 shooting. By season's end, Allen Iverson had been named Big East Player of the Week nine times, Rookie of the Year, a second team all-conference selection, and honorable mention All-America recipient. Having led the Hoyas in points and steals en route to the school's first NCAA regional appearance since 1989, Iverson was already a star. By 1996, he would become nothing less than a sensation.

The leaser of a talented team that featured four future NBA stars, Allen Iverson dominated the 1995-96 season as no Hoya has done before or since. Adept at the crossover dribble that became his NBA trademark, lightning quick to the basket, and able to score on opponents at will, Iverson was largely unstoppable. Even more impressive was an effort to improve his shooting touch, for despite averaging 20.4 points as a freshman in 1994-95 (2nd all time for a Georgetown rookie), Iverson only shot 39 percent from the field, 23 percent from three, and 19 percent from three in Big East play. For his sophomore season, his field shooting increased to 48 percent, his three point mark to 36 percent. The results were striking.

In the pre-season NIT versus Temple, Iverson shot 50 percent for 24 points and a career high 10 rebounds. After a 23 point effort against Georgia Tech, he scored a career high 40 against Arizona, one of two 40+ point games that season. In Big East play, Iverson could ring up points with ease, such as the game where he scored 21 points in only 20 minutes against Rutgers.

In the final three months of the season, Iverson led the team in 21 of the team's 25 games: 40 against Seton Hall, 39 against St. John's, 34 against Providence. He scored 30 in a wild win over Memphis, and followed it up two nights later with 26 in an upset of #3 Connecticut. For the game, Iverson totalled 26 points, 8 steals, and 6 assists, including a soaring dunk past Ray Allen and the Huskies. It was the highest ranked team any Georgetown team had defeated since 1988. His best performance of the season might have been a 37 point, 8 rebound, and three steal effort against #6 ranked Villanova, playing only 27 minutes. The 106-68 win represents the sixth largest margin of victory and the largest margin ever by a Georgetown team against a top 10 opponent.

Iverson was capable of an off game; unfortunately, two came at particularly inopportune times for the Hoyas' hopes for a national title. Entering the 1996 Big East Final with a #1 seed on the line, Iverson shot 4 for 15 and the Hoyas lost by one, 76-75. As a result of the loss, Georgetown was seeded #2 behind top ranked UMass, and in the regional final between the two teams Iverson struggled with a 6 for 21 effort in the loss. For the season, though, his statistics were astonishing: his 926 points broke the then-record by 124 points. He set new single season marks in field goals, field goal attempts, three pointers, three point attempts, steals, minutes, and scoring average (25.0), the latter of which ranked 7th in the nation that season. The Big East's defensive player of the year, he was named a consensus All-American amidst numerous other awards.

If he could somehow have stayed four years, Iverson undoubtedly would have shredded the Georgetown record books. But whatever hopes existed for Iverson to resist the lure of the NBA were short lived, particularly with the news that one of his sisters had fallen ill. Seeing the opportunity to take care of his family's medical needs, Iverson announced for the NBA draft soon after the end of his sophomore season, becoming the first Georgetown player in the Thompson era to do so. The compact that had bound so many great Hoya players to a four year commitment--from Ewing to Williams, Mourning to Mutombo--had now been broken.

The first pick in the 1996 NBA draft, Iverson signed a $3.9 million contract with the Philadelphia 76ers and a ten year, $50 million deal with Reebok. His effort on the court is well known and respected, but for all the media portrayals of Iverson as the anti-hero, an icon of a "Hip Hop Nation" that ran counter to the NBA's carefully constructed marketing image, or as a symbol of all that is allegedly wrong in professional basketball, he remains remarkably well-grounded.

Married for six years and the father of two, Iverson is fiercely loyal to his teammates and to his childhood friends. He considered it an honor to play for the U.S. Olympic team in 2004 when other NBA stars passed on the offer, and maintains a number of charity events to benefit his local community. In comparison to his NBA career, his years at Georgetown were largely free of the intense media and personal scrutiny, providing at least two years where he could grow as a person as well as a basketball player.

His arrival and exit at Georgetown is still a source of debate in some circles, but his performance on the court is not. Allen Iverson found a home, even briefly, at the Hilltop, and remains one of its brightest stars. "In my heart, I know I'm a basketball player," Iverson said following his 2006 NBA trade, "being that I know I can play with the best of them."

From that first Kenner League game on 1994, no one has doubted it since.