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Last Tuesday, Denver Nuggets guard Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf was suspended without pay by the NBA for refusing to stand during the national anthem. Abdul-Rauf, an American citizen, converted to Islam in 1991. For the entire season he has remained in the locker room, sat and stretched, or turned away from the flag during the playing of "The Star Spangled Banner...
What the Abdul-Rauf affair has taught us is that the national anthem is just one of the details, part of a carefully-designed package the NBA has been selling to sell-out crowds around the nation. Just like the mandatory post-game interviews and the locker room press access, standing at attention during the anthem is a facet of the public image Stern and his colleagues have carved out for the "Professional Basketball Player...
Harvard set an NCAA tournament record by connecting on eight three-pointers in the first half, taking a 41-40 lead into the locker room after going up by as much as seven points...
...Raiders fans celebrated, Texas Tech and North Carolina were sent to their locker rooms for 26 minutes while crews cleaned up the glass and replaced the basket...
...Locker rooms and bulletin boards of student organizations are also littered with bracket sheets for their own pools...