Cal’s Gutierrez Worries About Family in Bloody Chihuahua

rtmsf — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:48:13 +0000

It’s no revelation to say that basketball is a city game. More specifically, it’s an inner-city game. And inner-city has essentially become code for urban decline, crime and unsavories — a more politically correct way of saying a place that a dude doesn’t want to find himself walking through late at night. So basketball and hard-knock stories overcoming them are almost cliche at this point in our history — few high-level D1 players come from environments that anyone would describe as safe, and even fewer were raised in wealthy enclaves. These days, it’s more surprising to hear about someone like Notre Dame’s Ben Hansbrough and his millionaire [...]

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Cal’s Gutierrez Worries About Family in Bloody Chihuahua