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Star-to-Be Who Never Was
Sunday NY Times, March 3, 2012
STONY CREEK, Va. — On an otherwise lazy Sunday, dinner took hours to prepare, filling the small one-story house on a remote and wooded street with the aromatic smell of chicken, ribs and all the trimmings. The extended family would soon be arriving, in full, hungry force.
Standing tall but cramped in the narrow kitchen at 6 feet 6 inches and not much less than 300 pounds, Lenny Cooke suddenly looked up from his culinary masterpiece.
“I went from being a superstar basketball player to being a cook,” he said wistfully, unmindful of the play on his name.
What went wrong? How did he miss by so much?
Stretched on the couch, glancing at a big-screen television, he shrugged and said, “You had a devil on one shoulder and an angel on another.”
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