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...also poured forth showmanship. A six-footer who weighed 300 pounds or more for much of his life, he had a Rabelaisian appetite for food and fun. Offstage he clowned on TV talk shows, appeared in commercials and movies, and generated nonstop tabloid copy. Reports of his dietary struggles and weight fluctuations circulated like a runaway Dow Jones average: up 25, down 80, up 60. He was a household name to millions of people who had never seen the inside of an opera house...
...seven-footer has spent the past five months since his collegiate career ended in training and at scout-attended workouts in a bid to latch on to an NBA roster. His season ended when Harvard’s fall semester concluded in late January...
Kevin Durant, the spindly, silky-smooth forward from the University of Texas, is making life miserable for the Portland Trail Blazers, who hold the first overall pick in tonight's NBA draft. Hoops history tells the Blazers to take the big man, Ohio State seven-footer Greg Oden, since dominant post-players like Bill Russell, Shaquille O'Neal and Tim Duncan collect the championship rings. But Durant, a 6-ft. 10-in. scoring machine who became the first freshman to ever win college player-of-the-year honors, has looked more impressive in pre-draft workouts. Durant sat down with...
...evident at Thursday's 2007 NBA draft in New York City. After much-hyped college stars Greg Oden and Kevin Durant were selected as the top two choices this year, the Milwaukee Bucks used the sixth overall pick in the draft to snap up Yi Jianlian, another seven footer from China - albeit a more athletic one who has been compared to NBA all-star (and German import) Dirk Nowitzki. And like Yao before him, he is already surrounded by a sense of intrigue and anticipation. Web sites from Hooplah... Nation-a blog dedicated to the New Jersey Nets-to ESPN...
...team through the fall.However, this meant that after just four Ivy League games, the center would be forced to leave the team with a gaping hole in the middle of the lineup. With Cusworth, Harvard finished 9-9 overall, and 2-2 in the Ivy League. Without the seven-footer, the Crimson stumbled to a 12-16 finish, just 5-9 in the Ivies.“No matter how much we try to minimize it, anytime we lose statistics like [Brian’s], I think there’s an apprehension in our minds,” head...