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Michael Porter Jr. to have back surgery, likely out for rest of season
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<blockquote data-quote="pruman91" data-source="post: 1350666" data-attributes="member: 3916"><p><a href="http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/jeff-gordon/tipsheet-porter-jr-injury-sends-shock-waves-through-college-hoops/article_1cbc7cdb-8187-58bd-901a-09653475b92e.html" target="_blank">http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/jeff-gordon/tipsheet-porter-jr-injury-sends-shock-waves-through-college-hoops/article_1cbc7cdb-8187-58bd-901a-09653475b92e.html</a></p><p></p><p>Hilarious post inside the article.....</p><p></p><p>Joan Niesen, SI.com: "Every year, about 4,000 teenagers enroll as freshmen at the University of Missouri. Another 75,000 or so babies are born to families in the state. Many of those poor young people are doomed, in the sense that by virtue of their birthplace or their college admittance they will cheer for the Missouri Tigers. I was both born in Missouri and chose to attend graduate school at Mizzou. I am twice cursed. I don’t remember the Fifth Down Game—I was about to turn three—but I lived through Frank Haith’s tenure as basketball coach and the loss to Norfolk State, the checkered career of former No. 1 football recruit Dorial Green-Beckham and Gary Pinkel’s revelation of a cancer diagnosis days after he’d managed his team through a divisive boycott. Really, even the good moments at Missouri often turn out poorly. In 2007, after its best season in program history, the football team was denied a BCS bowl bid that was given instead to Kansas—which it had beaten two weeks earlier. Quin Snyder, one of the NBA’s most talented coaches who was once the hottest name in college basketball, got his start at Missouri—where he embarked on a crusade of NCAA infractions and left the program in dire straits."</p><p></p><p>another misery article......</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/jeff-gordon/gordo-porter-jr-s-demise-puts-the-onus-on-martin/article_65afd8f9-f108-565e-80b9-f2ee38f54d3f.html" target="_blank">http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/jeff-gordon/gordo-porter-jr-s-demise-puts-the-onus-on-martin/article_65afd8f9-f108-565e-80b9-f2ee38f54d3f.html</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pruman91, post: 1350666, member: 3916"] [url]http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/jeff-gordon/tipsheet-porter-jr-injury-sends-shock-waves-through-college-hoops/article_1cbc7cdb-8187-58bd-901a-09653475b92e.html[/url] Hilarious post inside the article..... Joan Niesen, SI.com: "Every year, about 4,000 teenagers enroll as freshmen at the University of Missouri. Another 75,000 or so babies are born to families in the state. Many of those poor young people are doomed, in the sense that by virtue of their birthplace or their college admittance they will cheer for the Missouri Tigers. I was both born in Missouri and chose to attend graduate school at Mizzou. I am twice cursed. I don’t remember the Fifth Down Game—I was about to turn three—but I lived through Frank Haith’s tenure as basketball coach and the loss to Norfolk State, the checkered career of former No. 1 football recruit Dorial Green-Beckham and Gary Pinkel’s revelation of a cancer diagnosis days after he’d managed his team through a divisive boycott. Really, even the good moments at Missouri often turn out poorly. In 2007, after its best season in program history, the football team was denied a BCS bowl bid that was given instead to Kansas—which it had beaten two weeks earlier. Quin Snyder, one of the NBA’s most talented coaches who was once the hottest name in college basketball, got his start at Missouri—where he embarked on a crusade of NCAA infractions and left the program in dire straits." another misery article...... [url]http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/jeff-gordon/gordo-porter-jr-s-demise-puts-the-onus-on-martin/article_65afd8f9-f108-565e-80b9-f2ee38f54d3f.html[/url] [/QUOTE]
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