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Rare Cat

By John Gustafson
ESPN The Magazine

Tuesday, March 7, 2000

There are signs, omens, portents. Billboards that offer exterminating solutions for roaches and fire ants. Green exit markers that read "Accident Investigation Site Next Right." Massive thunderheads that blanket the skyline in a cobalt upholstery. It's a humid 80-degree end-of-the-world kind of day in Houston. And No.1 Cincinnati is in town. Inside the University of Houston's Hofheinz Pavilion, there are more signs, mostly homemade ones that read: "I Eat Bearcat For Breakfast," "Coogs Layeth th ...

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