In whatever sport of field of endeavor you are interested, you should do whatever is necessary to compliment your God-given talent with proper mental preparation so as to do "the best you can." The criterion should be to fully exploit your potential rather than to win at any cost. What more could anyone ever ask of you than to be the best you possibly can?

Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.

There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.

I won the city scoring championship as a senior.

Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.

I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.

People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.