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====== AIM/Gmail Chat: damonbeau www.facebook.com/damonbeau www.twitter.com/damonbeau On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 15:32, Richard de Give <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://voices.washingtonpost.com/local-breaking-news/former-bullet-manute-bol-dies.html > > Former Bullet Manute Bol dies at 47 > > Manute Bol, who became a basketball sensation in the 1980s as a skeletally > thin shot-blocking giant with the Washington Bullets and other professional > teams, and who devoted his post-basketball life to improving the lot of his > fellow natives of Sudan, died June 19 at the University of Virginia Medical > Center in Charlottesville. He was 47. > > His cousin George Bol said Mr. Bol had internal bleeding and other > complications from Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, a rare skin disease that he > contracted from a medication he received in Africa. > > Mr. Bol, one of the two tallest players in NBA history, was also one of its > most exotic and endearing — and surely the only one to have killed a lion > with a spear. His unusual journey to basketball stardom began in southern > Sudan, where he was a cattle-herding member of the Dinka tribe and never > touched a basketball until his late teens. After catching the eye of an > American coach working in Sudan, Mr. Bol made his way to the United States > without knowing a word of English. > > > By Washington Post Editors | June 19, 2010; 2:57 PM ET > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "World News Now Discussion List" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <wnndl%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en.
