Several months ago I commented upon a Yahoo! Sports article on Hasheem Thabeet and his importance to his native Tanzania, an article which really hit home for me having lived in that country two years myself.
It may not have quite the personal connotations for me, but Yahoo! has done it again with Todd Pitman’s piece [...]

Jason King of Yahoo! Sports wrote a wonderful piece on University of Connecticut 7′3″ center Hasheem Thabeet today.
The article hit home for me in several ways. I spent two years as a young boy in Tanzania, Thabeet’s home country. An experience such as that which I had not only stays with you for the rest [...]