It's A Grand Old (Politically Correct) Flag

The last strains of The Star-Spangled Banner had faded from the court at Madison Square Garden, when Seton Hall University's Marco Lokar, an Italian citizen, came onto the floor to play ball in this land of the free. Each time Lokar touched the ball in the Feb. 2 game against St. John's University, the crowd booed and jeered the sophomore, the only player not wearing an American flag on his uniform. That night turned out to be the last time the flagless Lokar would wear his school's jersey. Last Wednesday he quit the team and dropped out of school. "I have...

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