He played basketball and tennis there, and on his high-school teams at home, with absolutely no idea that he was building the shells of future pieces of writing.
Jones yawned in opponents' faces - literally - he talked endlessly about stepping up to challenge Evander Holyfield at heavyweight, he played basketball on the eve of fights, he cut hip-hop records.
He obviously played football and basketball himself, and he saw that skinny, foreign guy beating him at his own game.
He played high-school basketball about 30 minutes from the Georgia Dome, the site of next weekend's Final Four, where Louisville travels this week for the NCAA tournament's national semifinals.
My role would be to project what his earning curve would be had he lived and played professional basketball at any level, been involved in television commentary, or worked in his field of criminal justice.
He overcame a clubfoot to become a high-school standout in football and basketball, and he played college football at the University of Arkansas.
He knew their sisters, who played rotation basketball at the hoop past left center field. (Well, he knew the sisters by sight: Joe never said five words in a row to anybody's sister.) He knew all their houses, and who slept where.
"If my brother played basketball, he'd have five fouls in the first quarter, " Toney Douglas said.
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Anthony's strong April display shouldn't have been a surprise, as he's consistently played his best basketball in the final month of the regular season.
By 18, he was regaining muscle tone and played college basketball for a year.
After Craig signed on, he recruited his daughter Rometra, who played Division I basketball at Duke and U.S.C.
He played soccer in the fall and spring, and basketball in the winter.
He was a standout high-school high jumper and played basketball at a junior college nearby, in the late nineteen-eighties.
He was a leader of his fraternity, Kappa Sigma, played basketball, excelled as an actor and debater, served as ROTC cadet colonel, and was not only president of the student body but also head of the Pacific Student Presidents Association.
Asked whether he considered quitting out of loyalty to the Big East, Boeheim said that, indeed, he is loyal to the conference that played a huge role in turning college basketball into what it is today.
He played football as a youngster on his home island of Mallorca, but basketball ability was in the family genes with both his parents players, while his elder sister Marta plied her trade in the American WNBA before also returning to Spain with her current club Salamanca.
He also played on the gold medal-winning 1984 U.S. Olympic basketball team in Los Angeles as a college sophomore.
Tiger Woods, an American golfer, makes a brief appearance (his first known scorecard, for a round he played at ten years old), and there are numerous uniforms worn by basketball players.
"To be perfectly honest, I did not know he HAD an older brother from the start, " said classmate Alexandros Stefanakis, who played pickup basketball games and hung out with Dzhokhar outside school.
In high school, he was valedictorian and president of his class, played quarterback for the football team and point guard for the basketball team.
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