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Return 2 Sender

By Elena Bergeron

Thursday, November 20, 2008

The face of Illinois basketball is filthy. On a sweltering August afternoon, Dee Brown hunches over an exercise bike on the sideline of the practice court at the Ubben Basketball Complex. His headband, long past its saturation point, drips sweat onto the hardwood; the corners of his mouth spill over with froth. Just as he catches his breath, his trainer adjusts the bike to maximum resistance for another one-minute sprint. Wonderful. Brown's parenthetic cheeks, sun-splotched from a summer spent ...

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