Feeding the Hoop Beast

december 9, 2002  04:31 pm
Feeding the Hoop Beast
There isn't a college in the country that wouldn't mind having St. Louis schoolboy prodigy Kalen Grimes as its starting power forward in two years, Mike Seely writes in Riverfront Times. "But wooing prep hoop talent these days is a lot like courting a potential sweetie-pie. If you remember the orchid and box of chocolates on date one, you might flip skins by night's end. Show up all by your lonesome with only the merits of your program and a beat-up Ford Taurus, and you'll end up sharing a bed with the January issue of Hustler and a squeeze bottle of hand lotion," Seely says.