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Rebel, Rebel

By Tom Friend
ESPN The Magazine

Thursday, September 9, 1999

They see him on campus in size XXXXXXL jeans, and they wonder if he's Blood, Crip or Trojan. They wonder what he's been smoking, or what class he's been cutting, but what they need to know is the whole story. If they only knew about his dream, maybe they wouldn't be in such a lather. If they only knew that as a child he shortened his name to R. Jay so it would be easier to sign his Heisman autographs, maybe they might have him on the cover of their media guide instead of some waif of a running b ...

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