What do you think of Scott Foster after reading this?
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What do you think of Scott Foster after reading this?
For one thing, he has overcome the disadvantage of wealth. A great basketball player, almost by definition, is someone who has grown up in a constricted world, not for lack of vision or ambition but for lack of money; his environment has been limited to home, gym, and playground, and it has forced upon him, as a developing basketball player, the di
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I don’t believe there was better basketball player and human being than the man I called Norman (his middle name). There was no one I competed with harder and had more respect for than him. Just before Wilt died in October 1999, he and I were having one of our marathon telephone calls. Wilt simply loved to talk, and it was impossible to stop him wh
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Given these facts - and they were facts - Berning was reluctant to accuse such a reputable man of anything. He told himself Garanta wasn’t important. It couldn’t be.