Which part hurts most?(comeback of basketball player Michael Jordan)(Brief Article)

Publication: The Sporting News

Publication Date: 08-OCT-01

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This is worse than Ditka with the Saints. This is worse than that building in Malaysia, you know, the one slightly taller than the Sears Tower. This is worse than the Black Sox and 1919, worse than the Cubs and 1908, worse than the Blackhawks and whenever it was they last won the Stanley Cup, back when there were something like six NHL teams and Lord Stanley personally delivered the cup to the victors. In a town that primps its image like an eighth-grader primps his hair before his first dance, this is as bad as it gets.

Michael Jordan is back, playing basketball. For the Washington Wizards.

As one agent says, "This is great news for the entire league, the entire country, really. I mean, unless you live in Chicago."

There are many reasons why this does not sit well with the sports-loving public in Chicago. For one thing, Jordan once promised he never would play...

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