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Great White's lead singer, Jack Russell, returned Friday to the site of the destruction to search for the band's guitarist, Ty Longley, who has been missing since the fire broke out. (He is believed to be dead.) Russell told reporters that the band's tour manager always asks for permission to set off fireworks during shows. But even Russell did not sound convinced. "The club must've said yes, or we wouldn't have used them," he said. Owners of clubs in other cities came forward to say the band--on a nationwide tour to support...
...Clark, a senior buyer for Maine retailer L.L. Bean, says the system "frees me" to talk about issues - health care and taxes and sprawl. State senator Susan Longley says "clean" campaigning has refocused her "totally on my constituents" - not contributors. Longley's challenger, former Belfast Sheriff John Ford, says without the new law, he wouldn't be in the race. When friends asked him to run, he says, "I told them I was not going to ask the people of Waldo County to give me $35,000 to $40,000" to campaign...
Apparently, the Knicks feel they have found that player, and his name is Luc Longley...
...Longley! That's right, the big goofy Australian guy who jumped on Michael Jordan's back and rode it to three championships but did little else. Luc Longley, whose ability to get up and down the court makes the lumbering Patrick look like Maurice Greene. Luc Longley, who, days after the trade, promptly tore ligaments in his knee and will miss at least the first 15 games of the upcoming season...
...scouts have long realized that there's one thing you can't teach even the most skilled basketball player--height. In search of verticality, the long arm of U.S. basketball recruiting has stretched out in the past two decades from Australia (the Phoenix Suns' 7-ft. 2-in. Luc Longley) to Yugoslavia (the Sacramento Kings' 7-ft. 1-in. Vlade Divac) and now, gingerly, to China. Wang Zhizhi--who shoots like a dream and dribbles pretty nimbly--has the one thing that NBA scouts know even four years of NCAA ball could never give him--7 ft. 1 in. Says...