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You Can Get There From Here

By Luke Cyphers

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

It sounds like a parable, or a Disney script. In the city championship game, the best Chicago team of its era, maybe the best team in the country, is struggling. The star, who won last year's state title game with a buzzer-beater, is in foul trouble, and his team is in a dogfight with a school it should be crushing. At halftime some players grumble about the refs. And that's when the star, a local legend whose game is so loud he rarely has to open his mouth, speaks up. "It's not the officials' f ...

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