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NBA great has a lot on his plate
May 19, 2008
Jim Naveau

SHAWNEE TOWNSHIP - During John Havlicek's basketball career at Ohio State and throughout his NBA years he was known for always being on the move.

Apparently not much has changed in the 30 years since he played his last game.

"There's always something going on. In the last nine days I've been in Scotland, Florida and Lima. I travel a lot of ground at times," the 68-year-old Basketball Hall of Famer said as he sat at a table at the Shawnee Country Club on Monday.

Havlicek was in Lima for the Thomas J. Moening Classic, a golf outing to benefit the Lima Memorial Hospital Foundation.

Two hundred fifty-two golfers played in the outing and 24 tennis players also took part in a "Lobs for Life" competition on Monday.

The golf outing was named for Tom Moening, the former chief executive officer of Webb Insurance, who died late last year. He was a co-founder and officer of the Lima Memorial Hospital Foundation.

Havlicek combined a business trip to Lakeview Farms, a Delphos food company he owns a piece of, with the golf outing.

"This is one of the things that came up on the calendar and I knew Tom a little bit. It's something I wanted to do," he said.

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