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Title: Humanitarian and basketball star Manute Bol dies
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The Kansas City Star
URL Source: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/06/1 ... arian-and-basketball-star.html
Published: Jun 19, 2010
Author: Staff
Post Date: 2010-06-19 15:28:19 by Fred Mertz
Keywords: None
Views: 7319
Comments: 13
Manute Bol, the tallest player in NBA history during his 10 seasons, has died, his friend Tom Prichard told The Star today. Bol, who had a home in Olathe, died this morning at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville. He was fighting acute kidney failure and a skin disease he contracted while trying to help his native Sudan. He was 47. He spent his entire basketball fortune and survived attacks on his life to save and improve lives in and around Sudan. He lost hundreds of family members in an ongoing war but saved or educated at least that many with peacemaking efforts. Sudan Sunrise, a charity Bol has worked with, said: "Sudan and the world have lost a hero and an example for all of us. Manute, we'll miss you. Our prayers and best wishes go out to all his family, and all who mourn his loss." Star news services contributed to this report.
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I remember seeing him and his teammates in travel attire in the Philadelphia airport years ago. He was so tall he looked like a freak of nature. He had to duck to enter the newsstand. He did some sort of charitable event at a horse racing track with jockey Otto Thorwarth, maybe it was Turfway Park a number of years ago. 47...only the good die young. RIP Manute.
Yepper...bummer...
#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace I'm biased, obviously, given the shit I'm subjected to daily here from the anti groupie. Badeye posted on 2010-06-10 11:34:31 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
This really is sad news. Manute Bol was everything that the national racist thug punk league, (aka NBA), is NOT today. He was a good guy, who did his best to help his home country without disrespecting the country and culture that gave him the financial ability to do so. Sincere condolences to his friends and family. RIP Manute.
Quoted by PDS insane assholes every where.
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The world can use more men such as Manute Bol.
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The guy was only 47 years old. What a tragedy.
Amen. Even though he died young,he clearly had his priorities straight in life,and I have no doubt he enjoyed his life more and was happier than most people.
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He apparently did some good in the world to make it a better place. RIP.
Dude was not a great ballplayer but he made up for that 6-million-fold by being a great person.....unlike the mostly punk-junk in the entertainment world today.
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way. Below is positively the most hilariously BS overflowing comment from the resident obamunist spent-condom EVER:) "This is WHY I left the GOP in the mid 90's. ." Dwarf
A great human being. Its not unusual for the large to die in their 40's...be it weight or height. Rest in Peace.
Just 10 days prior to the explosion, the Obama administration’s regulators gave the oil rig a pass, and last year the Obama administration granted BP a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) exemption for its drilling operation.
YIKES! Are those shoes or canoes? Just imagine the leverage those things put on his ankle every time he got up on his toes to run.
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)
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Toss: ADL,CAIR and the Vatican into the pit they belong in.
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The world can use more men such as Manute Bol.
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#9. To: Fred Mertz (#8)
Toss: ADL,CAIR and the Vatican into the pit they belong in.
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