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TSB Americana: Kobe Bryant as Howard Hughes

Found July 03, 2009 on The Sporting Blog:
PLAYERS: Kobe Bryant
TEAMS: Los Angeles Lakers

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We won't have regularly-scheduled TSB programming Friday through Sunday as everyone heads out to the beach, but for those of you stuck in offices or afraid of that glowing orb outside, we hope you enjoy some of sports' biggest figures in different pieces of Americana. Other people will tell you that the most important things about America is democracy, or hard work, or patriotism about democracy and hard work. However, if you went to grad school for American Studies like I did, you know that this country is really about being eccentric, powerful, and successful in a way that makes people laugh at you. That's why to me, the greatest American of them all is not Washington, Lincoln, Nat Turner, or Sandra Day O'Connor, but the man who inspired that movie The Aviator. I speak, of course, of Howard Hughes -- movie producer, zillionaire, flyer of unknown aircraft, recluse, wooer of babes, and complete lunatic. Hughes didn't just do whatever he wanted, he made up ne...
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