Sportsday; '24' Rerun Angers Thompson; Retired Number Back in Play Until Former Star Voices Displeasure
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › November 16, 2006
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Marquette University officials were poised to make a blunder this week that, in its own way, equaled the truly epic nickname public relations debacle of last year.
You recall, MU set the Gold standard for such achievement, managing to become a laughingstock not only locally but for a whole country of amused observers.See the full content of this document
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Sportsday; '24' Rerun Angers Thompson; Retired Number Back in Play Until Former Star Voices Displeasure
The issue this time? The use of a retired number by a current basketball player and the resulting damaged relationship between MU and one of the basketball program's prominent figures, all-time leading scorer George Thompson.
Freshman forward Lazar Hayward, coa...See the full content of this document
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