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Rose isn't the first sports star to debase himself like this. The list of athletes who have stepped into the squared circle includes Lawrence Taylor, Karl Malone, Dennis Rodman, Reggie White and Kevin Greene. But unlike these stars, Rose can never go back to the sport that made him...
Halle Berry was last year's Harvard Foundation honoree. Other previous honorees include Andy Garcia, Graham Greene and Denzel Washington.
Greene suggests that Oakley perennially led the league in personal fouls, but such an insinuation is blatantly false--last year Oakley barely cracked the top 10 and was well behind the league leaders. The column's earlier claim that Oakley led the league in flagrant fouls is similarly unjustified.
The column also misses the point about the Knick's acquisition of Sprewell. If Greene wants to focus only on the player's on-court merits, that's fine. But claiming that Sprewell is too undisciplined a shooter is more or less irrelevant--John Starks, who the Knicks gave up...
While I laud Greene's misguided attempt to honor the Oak and point out the dangers of Sprewell in a Knick uniform, it would be a shame for his readers to come away with a false impression of the man who played with gritty integrity. WILLIAM O. RECKLER '99 Jan...