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What about "My life isn't about playing games"? If that's true, shouldn't a great university stop touting the three national titles and the 10 Final Four berths? Shouldn't the officials and their singed ears catch a break from here? Shouldn't Krzyzewski request that the university restore the 4-15 portion of the 1995 season - the part after he took a leave for back surgery - that a sports information director unctuously pinned on the replacement coach?
And who decided way back in American culture that image construction would consist of stripping away human foibles and eccentricities in favor of manufacturing saints?
No pursuit as oily, savage and NC-17 as college basketball - as sports - should warrant a commercial so absurdly "Pleasantville," but we continue to dole our helpless youth such televised misguidance as to how the planet really works.
--Chuck Culpepper, Newsday
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Kris Humphries -
Committed to Duke, then changed his mind and eventually ended up at Minnesota.
Nobody ever said exactly why Humphries decommitted, but an Indy Star (sorry, unable to link to- article purged from internet) article speculated:
"It's unclear why Humphries asked out of his Duke commitment, but speculation has centered on the possibility that Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski was not happy with rumors that one of his recruits might be leaning toward leaving for the NBA after just one or two years of college. It's believed that Krzyzewski traveled to Minnesota to speak with Humphries about that topic.
Another possibility mentioned is that Humphries realized there was a glut of big men at his position at Duke.
When asked why his son asked out of his letter of intent at Duke, William Humphries said "there's a legitimate reason" and added that the information would come out in the appeals process."
Here is an editorial from a Minnesota newspaper on the decommit.
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