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...just my experience growing up. For big chunks of my childhood I was being raised by a single mom who was working and putting herself through school. I think also one of the inspirations I had was a comic book called “Love and Rockets?? by Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez. They were the first guys to get compliments in terms of female characters. I immersed myself in their work so deeply that when it came time to write my own stories it wasn’t even a conscious effort...
...Greeks staved off the Persians, Genghis Khan stopped short of Kiev, and the Cold War ended with no major Eastern incursions. But it appears that a new monster has risen from the East, this time in the form of 7’6 Rockets?? center Yao Ming. Yao has arrived in full force, and his impact has been felt both in the paint and in the world of marketing, where Yao has been a smash hit in the past year...
...FleetCenter last Monday as a sports fan excited at the prospect of seeing the much-heralded Yao in person. He has been an integral part of the Rockets?? offense, complementing guards Steve Francis and Cuttino Mobley and giving the team its first viable inside presence since another foreign export, Hakeem Olajuwon, dominated the paint...
...raised on the Houston Astros, who sported ridiculous rainbow jerseys, and the Oilers, outfitted in powder blue. With the exception of the Rockets?? back-to-back championships, which occurred relatively late in my sports education, my hometown was mired in consistent mediocrity...
...can’t tell you who the Rockets?? sixth man is now, with the glory days of Mario Ellie, the Junkyard Dog, long gone. Hakeem’s retiring this weekend, and I will feel his leaving more keenly than any award Yao Ming wins because the Dream defined the Rockets...
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