One of the five best defensive players in basketball history will be enshrined in the Hall of Fame this summer. While many of you hear the name “Dennis Rodman” and immediately think “cross-dressing train wreck”, those of us that followed basketball in the late Eighties and most of the Nineties (hopefully) feel differently. Rodman was, basically, a freak of nature. Drafted at age 25 out of Southeastern Oklahoma State University, he didn’t follow the typical trajectory of a basketball stud. […]
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Paul Shirley's "Can I Keep My Jersey?": 4 Years in the Life of a Journeyman
Let’s face facts here. Professional athletes are not generally known for their wit or candor. Not only does being sped through school for your athletic process not generally allow for the development of any kind of analytical thinking (or the social skills required to be funny), but no one wants to mess up their next endorsement check by saying anything that might be potentially inflammatory. So, we sports fans nowadays are stuck with either entitled idiots (like, for example, Terrell […]
