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Great Ball Of Fire

By Elena Bergeron

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

The folks of McConnells, S.C., have Ivory Latta pegged. In newsprint, North Carolina's 5'6" All-America guard is always "scrappy" or "speedy" or some other cartoonish modifier. But in McConnells (pop. 330), they've got a better word for her: country. As in, "She's as country as a turnip green." They use it to describe her off-the-court demeanor, but it works just as well for her game, a mix of small-town resourcefulness and guileless exuberance. Country. That's how they put it in the two-stop-si ...

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