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Thursday, October 9, 2008

KHALID EL-AMIN Before Khalid El-Amin, the Connecticut Huskies were a mere basketball team, a regional novelty, trusting in mere mortals. Now they're a circus act led by a guy whose names in the language of his Islamic faith mean, in reverse order, Trustworthy and The Sword of God. Whoa. UConn coach Jim Calhoun puts it this way: Before Khalid, we were starving in the desert. And he was like two jugs of water. But not just water. Ice water. Thing is, when the 5'10'' (riiiight!), 203-pound (suuuu ...

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