Sport: Big Mac

May is Indy 500 month in Indianapolis. With drivers revving up to shoot for record 200-m.p.h. laps in trials last week and the Speedway crowd already filling downtown hotels, it was a marvel that any other sport made the local papers, let alone the front page. But there, smack on page one of the Indianapolis News—for five consecutive days—was a series on basketball. The subject: Indiana Pacer Forward George McGinnis, known to the 17,000 fans who have been packing Pacer games recently as "Big Mac," "Baby Bull," or just plain "McGinnis the Magnificent."...

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