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I had a few beers at his bar today. Bob was a basketball star at LaSalle. A rebounding machine at 6-4, he was nevertheless kicked out of school his junior year for "off-campus problems." He would have been drafted by an NBA team but his fear of flying relegated him to a few years in the Eastern League. He last made the news in October when, 69-years-old, he tackled a 23-year-old mugger and had the man in a head lock before the cops could arrive.



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