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The punch line that's no joke

By Ray Ratto
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, April 7, 2005

Typically, humor fails when a joke fails to yield a punch line. You can tell by the deathly silence. But sometimes, rarely we admit, it ends up the other way around, with a punch line in search of the joke. Which brings to the latest episode in the Nehemiah Ingram story. You may remember Ingram as the Temple basketball player inserted by a fuming John Chaney into the St. Joseph's game Feb. 22 as a "goon" (Chaney's word) to protest the scourge of moving screens. Ingram, 6-foot-8, 275 pounds an ...

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