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...Indiana University's administration is all too aware of the delicate balance required to handle an issue as explosive as this. "Sports are an industry of public interest and public passion," explains Deborah Crown, professor of management at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. "Indiana University doesn't want to fall prey to doing what the public wants just because it's the popular thing to do; they want to do what's best for the university." On the bright side, after Monday's meeting and the painstaking negotiations that reportedly led up to it, Knight is now wholly responsible...
Sprewell excelled, went to junior college and then to Alabama and ended up 24th pick in the 1992 NBA draft. He became the first rookie in Golden State's history to set down at least 1,000 points in a season. A workhorse, he led the team in minutes played. But he was suspended twice for missing a practice and for "conduct detrimental to the team...
...home in Los Angeles is Sprewell Racing. It's a high-performance tire- and wheel-shop featuring lots of things that make you go zoom. "I drive all the time," he says. "I used to drive back and forth to school--to my junior college in Missouri, then from Alabama to Milwaukee. I've driven from California to Milwaukee by myself three times. I stop--sleep in the car for a couple of hours and then back on the road. I enjoy driving...not as much as basketball...
...people assembled in mobs. In fact, Baby Boomers (a demographic mob themselves) like manifestations of this kind, like to see all those lighted matches winking and flickering. But during most of civilized history, crowds have been considered mindless, dangerous animals, easily manipulated by demagogues. I remember driving through northern Alabama in the middle of the night with George Wallace Jr. ("Little George"), who told me, in tones of fear and awe, how he had, as a child, watched his father, Governor George Wallace, inflame a very nasty audience in Michigan. "He set them on fire," Little George kept repeating, with...
Other selected fellows include Anne Fitzgerald, a writer for the Des Moines Register; Kelli S. Hewett, a writer for the Dothan Eagle in Alabama and Mark Pothier, the executive editor of MPG Newspapers...