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...glass is to be installed in front of their pens, so that the cameras can't see them. It's true that with this plan, we won't be able to see Bobby Knight emit steam from his ears. (Knight, the glowering genius who cut Charles Barkley from the '84 Olympic tryouts, is the coach whose Indiana University team is right up there in the all-important tantrums- endured statistical category.) But as cartoon figures like Knight cease to be visible, their need to overact will diminish. So will their salaries, as they cease to be celebrities, and chemistry departments...
...course, customers can find replicas of the scary, green lizard from Tokyo. The store is stocked with wind-up Godzillas, a mechanistic MechaGodzilla and Godzilla versus Charles Barkley posters...
...hype surrounding the U.S. Men's Basketball Team during the heart of the baseball season poignantly reminded baseball fans of a painful truth. Unlike pro basketball, Major League Baseball today has no one who holds the national appeal in the way that Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Charles Barkley do--or, for that matter, in the way that Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Joe DiMaggio and numerous others once...
There are two kinds of memory: the official ones that belong to the world in highlight films, and the private ones that are preserved, if at all, in dusty photo albums. Some Olympic moments from Barcelona will now pass into the collective unconscious -- Charles Barkley dunking, Gail Devers smiling, Derek Redmond in tears hobbling on his pulled hamstring toward the 400-m finish line, leaning on his father's shoulder. Others will be as unmarked as the snapshots the Bhutanese archers take back of a city full of boats...
...Barkley's act of Ugly Americanism was played down by Angolan coach Victorino Cunha. "We know Charles Barkley," he said. "No problem. He does this 10 times a year in the N.B.A." For his part, Cunha deserves a medal for perseverance. In 1975 he started the Angolan basketball program. From scratch. In the 17 years since, he and his team have endured a war that virtually destroyed their nation. On the court they have put up with ridicule. For all who would listen in Badalona, Cunha had one message. "We can play. We can play," he repeated. No one thought...