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Quin Snyder is in Austin ... but a long way from the Big 12

By Jeff Pearlman
Special to Page 2

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

AUSTIN, Texas -- It is 2:45 p.m., and the homeless are anxious to bathe. They linger in the lobby of the Parque Zaragoza Recreation Center, a dispirited collection of men and women in tattered pants and worn T-shirts and sneakers with holes the size of nickels. Three or four times per week, many of Austin's less fortunate file their way through Parque Zaragoza's front doors, assured that the bathrooms will be clean and the shower water hot. Yet on this day, a Wednesday in early April, there is ...

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