Wednesday, September 16, 2009

We're not sure why but here's a LeBron article

No, LeBron (we think it's okay to use just the first name at this point) didn't have Nevada or Utah State under consideration before he went directly into the NBA but it's not often that a respected non-sports magazine such as Vanity Fair offers a solid article about an athlete, one sure to contain information previously unknown to most fans.

Does that work as an excuse to run it here?

LeBron’s Band of Brothers
In an excerpt from his new book, the N.B.A.’s biggest star recalls the team that made him: five kids who challenged themselves, one another, and their community, going all the way to the bittersweet final game that would make them National Champions.
By LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger
Vanity Fair
September 2009


Excerpted from Shooting Stars, by LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger, to be published this month by the Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.; © 2009 by the authors.

Ibelieve that things happen for a reason. I believe it was Karma that connected me to Coach Dru.
LeBron James

Buzz Bissinger shares video of the Fab Five’s extraordinary run.

Dru Joyce graduated from Ohio University in 1978. He got a sales job at Hunt-Wesson Foods, in Pittsburgh, and after a few years was promoted to senior sales rep for Cleveland and the eastern suburbs. By all rights Coach Dru and his family should have settled in the Cleveland area. Had he done so, I never would have met him, and without meeting him, who knows what would have happened to me. A district manager at Hunt-Wesson suggested he settle in Akron, which was a little cheaper than Cleveland, and Coach Dru took his advice. He moved there with his family in March of 1984, thinking it was temporary. But there was something about Akron he liked—the size of it, the feel of it, even the smell of it: although Goodyear and Firestone had closed their tire plants in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a few companies were still making rubber products back then, and every afternoon you could catch the sharp aroma. So he stayed, eventually moving to a house on Greenwood Avenue in West Akron. And because he stayed my life changed...
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