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This Sporting Life: Are you there, Dwight? It's me, God

By Jeff MacGregor
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Monday, June 1, 2009

Earlier, I asked [Dwight] Howard in the locker room to give me one or two reasons I should consider picking the Magic to defeat the Lakers. "God" was his answer, which was met with the counterargument that the Lord probably has better things to worry about than who wins a basketball game, and besides, religion and politics are usually best kept out of sports stories. "That's the reason, I'm telling you," Howard replied. -- Chris Sheridan, ESPN Dear Mr. Howard, Thanks for the recent shout-o ...

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