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The Trouble With Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Posted DateDec 5, 2011 by AuthorBrandon Sneed | | Print ArticlePrint

“That’s always been the trouble with standing on the shoulders of giants; if we see what they see, they won’t look like giants anymore. Suddenly they’ll just be men, trying to get along, and who would want to cheer for anyone like that?” — Chris Jones, "Access Denied" in the Dec. 12, 2011 issue of ESPN: The Magazine

If you haven't read Jones's back-page column in the new issue of ESPN: The Magazine, do so soon as you can. It's quite good. (It's the issue with the cover of a bulldog French-kissing Ozzie Guillen. Yah.)

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