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10-14-2013, 10:35 PM
SAN ANTONIO — When the San Antonio Spurs (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/sports/probasketball/nationalbasketballassociation/sanantoniospurs/index.html?inline=nyt-org) sent an intern to Argentina in July to ferry a new contract to guard Manu Ginobili, it seemed a routine trip. The Spurs preferred hand delivery to the mail. A previous contract had been brought for Ginobili to sign on his honeymoon.
Hours before the Spurs’ intern was to fly home from Buenos Aires, team officials said that he was strafed by a bird in a park. As he tidied up at a fountain, his backpack disappeared. Inside were Ginobili’s signed contract, along with the intern’s passport, cellphone and laptop.
Luckily, an international sports crisis was averted. An assistant traveling to Buenos Aires soon after brought a fresh contract and returned it to Texas without incident.
“No birds got to him,” Sean Marks, the Spurs’ director of basketball operations, said with a laugh. “We were all waiting for Manu’s contract to show up on eBay. It hasn’t yet.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/15/sports/basketball/spurs-stay-consistent-by-thinking-globally.html?ref=basketball&_r=0
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Hours before the Spurs’ intern was to fly home from Buenos Aires, team officials said that he was strafed by a bird in a park. As he tidied up at a fountain, his backpack disappeared. Inside were Ginobili’s signed contract, along with the intern’s passport, cellphone and laptop.
Luckily, an international sports crisis was averted. An assistant traveling to Buenos Aires soon after brought a fresh contract and returned it to Texas without incident.
“No birds got to him,” Sean Marks, the Spurs’ director of basketball operations, said with a laugh. “We were all waiting for Manu’s contract to show up on eBay. It hasn’t yet.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/15/sports/basketball/spurs-stay-consistent-by-thinking-globally.html?ref=basketball&_r=0
(http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/15/sports/basketball/spurs-stay-consistent-by-thinking-globally.html?ref=basketball&_r=0)More of the same
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/15/sports/international/globalization-sweeps-away-misgivings-about-foreign-teammates.html?pagewanted=1&ref=jerelongman&_r=0