Fri
May 25 2012
07:21 am
By: R. Neal
Pat Summitt will travel to the White House next week to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama. She will join 12 other honorees receiving the award, including Madeleine Albright, John Glenn, Bob Dylan, Toni Morrison and others.
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Think Hart will let her go?
Think Hart will let her go?
Let her go to D.C. or let her
Let her go to D.C. or let her go from her coach emeritus job?
More likely he'll want to tag along and glom on to some of the glory.
According to one of those
According to one of those documents in the Debby Jennings case, he pulled the plug on a TV interview with Robin Roberts when Pat won the Arthur Ashe Courage Award about a week before she stepped down.
Why would he do that?