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...season N.B.A. game in history. Three nights later, in his final appearance in the soon-to-be-scrapped Boston Garden, he scored 27 points in just 26 minutes. His performance was nearly as impressive as the 63 points he scored in a 1986 play-off game on the same parquet floor...
Actually, the guru is wrong. Sport is a parquet floor, with crossing patterns of excellence and exploitation. Tyson's story is perhaps the best example of that. When legendary boxing maestro Cus D'Amato discovered Tyson in an upstate New York reformatory, he was a bad kid from Brooklyn. D'Amato didn't exactly turn him into a saint, but he did channel Tyson's aggression into boxing. D'Amato died in 1985, but Tyson continued to improve as a fighter and as a human being. After he knocked out Pinklon Thomas in their 1987 championship fight, Tyson went over...
...Vatican's Apostolic Palace has a view of the baroque wonder of St. Peter's Square, it is almost as spare as a monk's. The room contains a single bed, two straight-backed upholstered chairs, a desk. There is a small carpet near the bed, but otherwise the parquet floor is bare. The walls too are unembellished except for a few souvenirs, mostly icons. But these are eloquent by their very presence. They are from Poland...
...soft spots on the Garden parquet that Magic Johnson used to complain about are still around, but otherwise, basketball is a sport where tradition and leftovers from a past day pale in influence to what happens now. (Just ask the hapless C's.) And, the "now" is giving Harvard some quiet confidence...
...past years, November I was an unofficial holiday. It was the day when the Leprechaun returned to the Parquet. I would be over the mental anguish that only the Boston Red Sox could inflict...