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...official walking tour of Bradley's old hometown, where this morning he announced (again) what everyone already knew: that he is trying to snatch the Democratic nomination from Al Gore. Bradley should have called this the speed-walking tour. The lapsed Senator is really working those long, NBA-tested legs, partly because he feels good--his kickoff speech went well, close to 100 media types are covering him, and the latest polls put him just a few points behind Gore in New Hampshire--and partly because he has only half an hour before sunset, and he wants to lead...
...NBA scouts have long realized that there's one thing you can't teach even the most skilled basketball player--height. In search of verticality, the long arm of U.S. basketball recruiting has stretched out in the past two decades from Australia (the Phoenix Suns' 7-ft. 2-in. Luc Longley) to Yugoslavia (the Sacramento Kings' 7-ft. 1-in. Vlade Divac) and now, gingerly, to China. Wang Zhizhi--who shoots like a dream and dribbles pretty nimbly--has the one thing that NBA scouts know even four years of NCAA ball could never give...
...against Shaq (7 ft. 1 in.) anytime soon, however. Wang is the starting center for the Bayi Rockets--the team of the People's Liberation Army--and even when he peels off his basketball doublet, he belongs to the army. In China, which is light-years away from NBA-style unions and agents, a team has almost total control over a player's rights. The P.L.A. would fight to keep him. He led the Rockets to five national championships. Says Dallas Mavericks assistant coach Donn Nelson, whose team tabbed Wang in this year's draft: "When we drafted...
...previous year. Still, although the league does watch players for signs of alcohol abuse, few players and no real stars have faced sanctions as tough as what the National Basketball Association gave the Dallas Mavericks' center Roy Tarpley, who was repeatedly suspended and eventually kicked out of the NBA over his constant drinking. Will the NFL develop a tougher alcohol policy? That will have to wait for another meeting...
...objectifying, and in a way that never seems to pertain to guy jocks. Sure, Joe Namath did that take-it-all-off Noxzema ad years ago; Jim Palmer posed in his Jockey shorts, and there's always been a bold sexual element to NBA basketball. But by and large, male sports celebrity is calibrated by success. You win, you make more headlines, you make more dough...