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A sports journal |
Spring 2000: Jeffries fishing for redemption
Indiana University basketball recruit Jared Jeffries is an avid fisherman. Jeffries, who stands 6-foot-10, is a rod-and-reel guy. Beware of Jeffries, though, with a fly rod. “When I raise up, I will snap the rod in half,” he says of his attempts at fly- fishing. In basketball Jeffries is a combination fly and rod-and-reel guy. At times he looks so graceful that he draws apt comparisons to Grant Hill and Danny Manning, two of the best tall small forwards in the last two decades of basketball ... (continued)
