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Appreciating Hansbrough isn't a matter of race, just basketball

By Gene Wojciechowski
ESPN.com

Monday, March 17, 2008

What do Geraldine Ferraro, Tyler Hansbrough and certain members of the sports media have in common? Sadly, more than you think. Ferraro, a former congresswoman and vice-presidential candidate, recently injected a full syringe's worth of race into the veins of the Democratic party's search for a presidential nominee. Even weeks after she made the comments to a California newspaper, you can still see the needle marks. She told The Daily Breeze that if Democratic front-runner Sen. Barack Obama ...

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