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...December of her senior year of high school, Heiberger took Saenz to the top of the Sears Tower. Bending down on one knee in front of his 17 year-old girlfriend, he asked, “Would you make me the happiest man in the world and be my wife?” Saenz remembers that she was initially shocked and covered her mouth with her hands. “What can I say?” she blurted out. Her nervous suitor responded, “Well, you have to say something...
...Lost in reveries of the end of an era, I neglect to notice that my left knee has strayed beyond the chrome curlicues that bound the passenger seat, breaking one of the cardinal rules of riding in tuk tuks. There's a loud thwack, a roar of exhaust and a fiery jolt of pain in my kneecap. A goggled gladiator on a motorbike has clipped me on his way past, without even stopping to see if I am O.K. Wiset pulls over at the next set of lights. As I abandon the tuk tuk and hobble off in search...
...Finally, after five days of interrogation, I was loaded into a police van and driven to a prison in Dhaka, where I was given a cell to myself with a sink and enough blankets to make a mattress. The prison hospital gave me painkillers for the throbbing in my knee. Compared to my treatment at the police station, this was luxurious. Then, after 50 days in custody, I was finally released on bail on Jan. 18, thanks in large part to pressure from Paris-based Reporters Without Borders and New York's Center to Protect Journalists. But the police have...
...Healthy Ma has a one-year contract with the Shanghai Sharks, a shaved skull, a black Fubu do-rag, a red Phat Farm sweatshirt, a U.S. green card, and an American wife and two little sons in Henderson, Nevada. At 33, balanced on a weak right knee, he yearns for one last NBA dance...
...their fault," says Ma, who, with his ailing knee, played only a few minutes of the rout but drew the loudest ovation from the faithful. ("Ma Jian jia you!" they cried when he took the court. Add fuel, Healthy Ma!) "It's tough for them," he continues. "They come on short-term contracts. They are people who love this game, and they make our league look better. But their language is different, their culture is different, their playing system is different?you can't expect a Chinese coach and American players to work together so quickly...