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br> San Antonio, Texas /p>

It has been nearly a decade since I last watched an NBA game. I don't need to explain why. Anybody who has watched the game for 30 years is quite aware of how it has evolved. From the constant traveling, fouling, and horrid shooting it is a wonder that anybody watches it anymore. The college and high school games are almost as bad.

p>I did watch part of the Olympic basketball tournament last year. What was amazing wasn't the fact that a tiny island nation to our South, or a European nation trounced our professionals so bad; what was amazing was how well the other teams mastered our own national sport. We've heard for a decade how other nations were catching up to us. Not only have they caught up, but they have surpassed us. If you want to recruit good players today, you do not travel to Indianapolis, L.A., or New York -- you fly to Kaliningrad, Belgrade, and Buenos Aires. br> -- JP br> Indiana /p> p> THEIRS FOR THE TAKING br> Re: Geoffrey Norman's Professional Looters and Christopher Orlet's Kiss Your House Goodbye :

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