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Will the future of football grow taller?

By Michael Weinreb
Special to Page 2

Thursday, May 21, 2009

I have never actually met Ali Villanueva, but I think it is safe to assume that he is the kind of human one would not particularly enjoy encountering during hand-to-hand combat. In fact, a grizzly bear might be a preferable adversary. This is because Villanueva is 6 feet, 10 inches tall, and weighs in somewhere to the north of 280 pounds. He is also a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and a football player for the Army Black Knights. And it is here, on the football field ...

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