After Lmnop told me she was writing her article on OCD in sports it set me to thinking. We’ll be doing more writing on mental health in sports, and while we discussed her article, the one person who continually popped into my mind was Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf. He was a basketball player in the NBA throughout most of the 90’s, had one of the sweetest shots of all time, and, in 1996, was in the middle of a colossal controversy for refusing to stand during the playing of the national anthem, all while living with Tourette’s syndrome. Read the rest of this entry
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