A pretty neat, quick interview with Bill Walton in The New York Times. On John Wooden..."Coach was also an English teacher who taught poetry. He had his favorite poets, and I had mine. He liked Longfellow and Frost. I liked Jerry Garcia and Bob Dylan."
Begs the questions, where are the articulate, free-spirited athletes nowadays? Do we have a modern day Bill Walton ever since Jake Plummer retired at 32? Or are professional sports only full of nothing but materialistic prima donnas covered in gold and tats?
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