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...AWAKENED several nights ago by the slow collapse of one of my posters as my Harvard-issue poster gum once again displayed its worth. The poster, entitled "Don't I Know You," features Bo Jackson in a series of athletic outfits. There is Bo, the former Kansas City Royal, brandishing a bat with those massive arms. Several Bos down, there is LeBo, star of the Montreal Canadiens, with skates half-laced and (according to my Canadian roommate, who should know) holding his stick the wrong...
...form with the hockey stick doesn't really matter, because everybody knows that if he really wanted to, Bo could master ice hockey as easily as he has football, baseball and track...
That is, the old Bo Jackson could have done it. Today's Bo, like that poster on my floor, has fallen and can't get up. It's sad enough that Bo is basically finished as an athlete. What is even sadder is that he is still hoping to make a comeback with the aid of an artificial hip. While concern should properly be focused on whether the man will ever be able to walk normally again, both Bo and the Chicago White Sox (his present employer) seem to be most preoccupied with arranging a waiver ruse so that they...
...another corporate titles.) The dream succeeds beyond their imaginings, and the small revolutionary company becomes a large and conservative one. Even now that Nike is a corporate giant, it still fosters the image of irreverent hipness with its striking advertising and superstar endorsers: the magical Michael Jordan, the bodacious Bo Jackson and those rebels with racquets, John McEnroe and Andre Agassi. The authors tell this tale with a mixture of gee-whiz cheerleading and nostalgic regret. (Strasser is the wife of an ex-Nike executive; Becklund is her sister and a writer at the Los Angeles Times...
Capalbo said a similar story is currently circulating at St. Mary's College in South Bend, Indiana. At St. Mary's, however, the murderer is predicted to come dressed as Little Bo Peep...