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Sox education

By Paul Lukas
Special to Page 2

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

In the beginning, there were shoes and socks, and it was Good. And then, occasionally, there were knee pads, and that was also Good, because let's face it, it hurts to bang your knee on a parquet floor. And then there were compression shorts, and this was Not Really So Good, because those things are supposed to be worn by bicyclists, not basketball players. But most of the time you couldn't really see them under the uniform shorts, so it was Not Really So Bad Either. And then things got out of ...

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