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Fun(?) Fact about San Diego's Rob Jones

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Post by thepuck Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:31 am

I was doing some research for my bracket and stumbled upon this little factoid courtesy of Yahoo sports and Rivals.com. Directly copied and pasted from the website:

"One of San Diego's starting forwards is freshman Rob Jones; his grandfather was Jim Jones, of the infamous Guyana mass suicide"

here's the link (its about a quarter way down on "the buzz"):
http://collegebasketball.rivals.com/content.asp?SID=1146&CID=786671
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Post by Stonehouse Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:08 pm

Yeah... there have been some really good articles written about it. There was a nice one in Sports Illustrated this fall, and there was also a spot about it on ESPN Outside the Lines in October or so.

OK... I wasn't going to take the time to post links, but now I will:

SI Story (truly a great read): http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=3047543

Outside the Lines Link: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=3047543
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