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...driver and several of the children on the bus held up their DQ bags as evidence to the contrary, but the white manager still demanded that the black bus driver move; he then called the police, and the two white police officers who showed up enforced the manager’s demand. When the bus driver went to the policemen to protest the decision, he was arrested. It took the efforts of the trip’s white chaperones to convince the police that they needed the bus driver to take them back to Atlanta...

Author: By Nafees A. Syed | Title: The Post-Racial Myth | 1/28/2009 | See Source »

...team owner who keeps lambasting basketball referees and getting fined. In January the NBA assessed Cuban the largest fine in its history--$500,000--for saying of the head of NBA officiating: "I wouldn't hire him to manage a Dairy Queen." Challenged by the company to manage a DQ for a day, Cuban gamely showed up at 6 a.m. to learn how to curl soft ice cream, then hustled to serve the 1,000 fans in line. Cuban briefly recruited basketball bad boy Dennis Rodman, inviting him to live in the guesthouse of the $15 million Cuban mansion. Rodman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bigger Screen for Mark Cuban | 4/22/2002 | See Source »

...better news is, justice was done and as fine a 19-year-old sportsman as the world knows was awarded his rightful prize. Apolo Anton Ohno, speed skater, dude, fun kid, icon, superstar of the highest water, was escorted to the top step of the podium thanks to a DQ, it is true. But if you were there in the arena - and even if you didn't understand short track - it was evident in the last lap: Ohno had the legs and smarts to beat that guy, and that guy blocked him. Whatever technical term was applied, was applied well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Skating: Ohno Finishes Second — and Wins Gold | 2/21/2002 | See Source »

...dishing ice cream to see just how challenging it could be. So last week, surrounded by television cameras, newspaper photographers, circling helicopters, hordes of fans, the Mavericks' mascot and Tom Arnold (never one to pass up a publicity bid himself), Cuban and Dairy Queen executives converged on a DQ outlet outside Dallas. In the battle for publicity primacy, Dairy Queen thinks it had the edge. Says spokesman Dean Peters: "This is the best thing to happen to the company since the invention of the Blizzard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 28, 2002 | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

PlayerG FG-ATT PCT 3FG-ATT PCT FT-ATT PCT REB AVG AST STL DQ PTS AVG Ralph James 20 102-259 .394 23-69 .333 92-116 .793 116 5.8 23 11 0 319 16.0 Ron Mitchell 26 137-261 .525 2-10 .200 136-180 .756 244 9.4 47 31 7 412 15.8 Tyler Rullman 26 138-291 .474 40-90 .444 60-76 .789 129 5.0 28 24 0 376 14.5 Matt McClain 26 101-231 .437 18-56 .321 43-58 .741 66 2.5 27 17 1 263 10.1 Peter Condakes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MEN'S BASKETBALL | 3/5/1991 | See Source »

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