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Iverson and Sports Cliches

by Andrew Sharp
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Not Ready for the Rocking Chair: Memphis Introduces Iverson
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Since someone gave me some grief earlier for my purple-y proclamation that "Iverson is a warrior," I had to include this commercial:

Sports cliches aside, Allen Iverson is a tough son-of-a-bitch. Or, at the very least, the Reebok Corporation agrees with me.

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