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Poison Ivy

By by Andy Latack

Monday, July 8, 2002

The King of Chicago waltzes through the clubhouse, a just-used Oral-B jutting from one side of his 1,000-watt grin. Sammy Sosa stops to flex for a teammate and give a pound to a PR guy, finally gliding to a halt in front of his locker. He tilts his ear, doglike, toward the clubhouse speakers, which are playing alternative rock at dentist-office decibels. The King shakes his head disapprovingly. Seconds later, Nelly is thumping from a boom box large enough to make RUN-DMC proud, a machine that So ...

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