Might be one of my favorite articles of this year... need to do some more research on Coach Dale Brown. What gumption trying to recruit Sabonis! Plus, this quote? ... Brown was an extensive world traveler who’d been recruiting internationals at LSU since 1972, so the coach did not suffer this kind of bias lightly. “My answer to anyone with that mentality,” Brown said then, “is that we should all check our genealogical backgrounds. I was in Moscow on the Fourth of July, but I saw film clips of President Reagan and Kirk Douglas and Angela Lansbury and that magnificent scene in New York Harbor. This is what the Statue of Liberty stands for. That scaffolding wasn’t there to tear the statue down. It was to build it back up. You think of Nureyev, Baryshnikov. Maybe you read in Parade magazine about the woman with a 240 IQ. She’s an immigrant. Would we deny her entrance? Sabonis isn’t some scumbag like the Marlietos. If somebody really is that self-righteous, I applaud him. I’d suggest he go back to North Dakota and give the Sioux their land back, because we’re just renting it.”
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 04:52:49 +0000
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