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Welcome To The Fishbowl.(Sports)
Byline: Rick Wright Of the Journal
The question asked of Fran Fraschilla, new kid in town, was not whether he approved of the Albuquerque Journal's decision to play the story of Damion Walker's weekend arrest on the front page of Sunday's newspaper. The question was whether that play surprised him.
Still, it was a hanging curve that a master spinner would have at least tried to hit out of the park.
It was a perfect opportunity to express concern, consternation, even outrage at the decision to take a 22-year-old basketball player's arrest for allegedly breaking into a van and assign it news value just below the latest happenings in Kosovo.
It was a chance, just maybe, to influence how such future stories are played.
But Fraschilla, who has been the University of New Mexico men's head basketball coach for all of 53 days, is either a realist or a quick learner or both. He seems to know what he can control and what he can't.
No, he said, he wasn't surprised to come back from a long weekend in his native New York and discover that Walker's arrest was front-page news.
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