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Team USA's co-captain quite candid

By Marc Stein
ESPN.com

Tuesday, August 3, 2004

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The Democrats have commandeered the Fleet Center, and that had a whole nation ticking off the seconds Monday waiting for Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton to stride onto Paul Pierce's floor to rave about John Kerry. Not me, though. I was in a college gym in North Florida waiting for one of my favorite American patriots to finish his first pre-Olympic practice, unlace his high-tops with the stars-and-stripes flags on the tongues and uncork his second annual State of The Answer ...

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