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They walked away, ringed by police andreporters. A police officer pointed to an EastGerman handcuffed to a park bench. The diplomatarranged for the East German to be freed, then ledboth men into the embassy...
...well-connected sleazeball who recruits naive high schoolers to North Carolina State with visions of national TV, number-one rankings, superstardom and sports cars, only to sit them on the bench? The racist manipulator who covers up his players' drug problems, illiteracy and criminal tendencies without trying to get them help? The egomaniac who pressures professors and administrators into preserving eligibility for Wolfpack cagers in his single-minded pursuit of NCAA glory and the all-mighty buck...
...identify the country north of the U.S. There's McQueen, who weeps as his roommate has to read him the newspaper account of the death of his good friend Len Bias. There's Avie Lester, the acne-ridden reserve who releases the frustration he builds up sitting on the bench by pummeling teammates in practice...
Amen, who rattled off back-to-back shots that gave Kostelis some of his toughest tests of the game, sat the bench for the first 25 minutes despite his status as a returning starter...
...have a lot of players who are sitting on the bench who deserve to be on the field," Getman said...