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I'm so sick and tired of people in the media telling us that because of the war, sports aren't important. Fans need sports. We'd have only crime and war to watch on TV if not for sports.

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Charles Barkley
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 20
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This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.
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