GR vs. Sports Article

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>>>Admittedly, one responds differently as a reader to, eg, GR
and a newspaper report of yesterday's game.<<<


April 28, 2003   LA Times

He Makes It His Kind of Mad House
     --Bill Plaschke

It's a mad, mad, mad, mad dog world.

"Aww," said Mark Madsen.

[...]

Mad Dog will never say it, and we've run out of canine metaphors to help
him, so let's just put it this way:

The Lakers could not have won Sunday without him.

Strange but whew!

His first two seasons here, he was little more than a cheerleader, a
diversion, a guy whose was seemingly paid only to jump off the bench and
pump his fists.

But this winter injuries and indifference forced him onto the court, where
that emotion seeped into the Lakers like Armor All across a dashboard.

They needed somebody to remind them why they still care. They needed an
anti-Horry.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-plaschke28apr28,1,5741875.story