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Juanita Jordan must be a very patient woman. Her husband MICHAEL JORDAN lives in Chicago, works for a team in Washington and jets all over the world playing golf and doing business. Now Michael has invited a friend, CHARLES BARKLEY, to stay at the house for a while. Barkley says he's moving into the Jordans' Highland Park, Ill., home so the two former Dream Team-ers can train together, drop weight and determine by the end of June whether they are in any kind of condition to return to the NBA, presumably for the god-awful but Jordan...
...think that Ben McKean is the kind of open-minded student interest that is needed," says council treasurer Justin A. Barkley `02. "He's been part of an organization that has done a skit where they put [University President Neil L.] Rudenstine in jail...
...share of problems in the post-Jordan era, but there is ample talent in the league to keep the stadiums filled. Besides, the constant drama of a possible return of MJ (mangled finger and all) and Charles Barkley (extra weight and all) keeps fans tuned...
Parity, talent, and competition usually create excitement, and judging by this standard, the NBA is in the nascent phase of a new 'silver age.' The drafts from 1992-1996 yielded a bonanza of new stars that now define basketball like the 1984-1985 classes of Jordan, Olajuwon, Malone, Barkley, Ewing, and Stockton did for the past 15 years...
When he retired from the NBA in May, CHARLES BARKLEY gave himself the gift of corpulence. "I'm 37," says Barkley. "I've worked out every day since I was nine. So I gave myself six months off from being in shape." By eating whatever he wanted, playing golf every day and drinking Grey Goose vodka with cranberry juice every night, Barkley added 70 lbs. to his frame. By Jan. 1 he had hit 337 lbs. Now, in his new gig as a TNT studio analyst, he's submitting himself to humiliating weekly weigh...