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Sports => Frank Martin's OOD sponsored by the "Angriest Fans in America" => Topic started by: KITNfury on October 02, 2009, 07:55:37 AM
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(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a370/2_wheeled_slave/denis.jpg)
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Dangit you beat me to it. :ksu:
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(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a370/2_wheeled_slave/denis.jpg)
Would look so much better if he were wearing the whites.
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Would look so much better if he were wearing the whites.
False. I like the Purples.
Agree to disagree??
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(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a370/2_wheeled_slave/denis.jpg)
Would look so much better if he were wearing the whites.
That's racist.
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is there any way KSU could be more of a beacon for opportunity and access by minorities in college athletics? We're an Emawlting Pot.
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(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a370/2_wheeled_slave/denis.jpg)
Would look so much better if he were wearing the whites.
are you infreakinsane?
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is there any way KSU could be more of a beacon for opportunity and access by minorities in college athletics? We're an Emawlting Pot.
Perhaps the best EMAW word infusion ever. Period.
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Amazing. Looks amazing in the purples I do say.
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The photo looks like it was captured from video, and the source says ESPN. Should we expect a video on ESPN some time?
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(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a370/2_wheeled_slave/denis.jpg)
Would look so much better if he were wearing the whites.
are you infreakinsane?
Would match the flag. Black would be better. All purple is clashy and does not help to bring out Denis' ravishing eyes.
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(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a370/2_wheeled_slave/denis.jpg)
Would look so much better if he were wearing the whites.
are you infreakinsane?
Would match the flag. Black would be better. All purple is clashy and does not help to bring out Denis' ravishing eyes.
Well I know you didn't major in art.
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(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a370/2_wheeled_slave/denis.jpg)
Would look so much better if he were wearing the whites.
are you infreakinsane?
Would match the flag. Black would be better. All purple is clashy and does not help to bring out Denis' ravishing eyes.
Well I know you didn't major in art.
Well now you know.
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From the article:
Growing up in Miami, Frank Martin knew of only two sports: baseball and football.
This was the 1970s, and for a melting pot of Latin American immigrants like South Florida, there was little to broaden that perspective. The Orlando Magic and Miami Heat were nearly two decades away from existence, the University of Miami was in the midst of its 15-year period without basketball; Florida International didn't sport a team. Only Division II Biscayne College offered any sort of high-level basketball outlet.
Martin, whose family had immigrated to the United States from Cuba, was going to be a baseball player. That was his father's plan; that was the plan of most fathers.
"You go to the parks, and there might be 30 people playing basketball," Martin remembers. "You go watch pee-wee football, there were 3,000. Little league baseball? Even more. People knew baseball, so that's what was pushed on me."
Today Martin is the head basketball coach at Kansas State. Bucking his father's wishes and the trend of most Latin American kids, he discovered hoops in high school and hung on for the ride.
But as his Wildcats ready for the season, the trend clearly has shifted. Right there in America's heartland, Martin's best player is Denis Clemente, a Puerto Rican whose second cousin is the late baseball legend Roberto Clemente. Starting center Luis Colon is also a native of Puerto Rico.
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:woohoo:DENIS! Is the man!