Katrina Hits Heels

Posted Sep 2, 2005

Otis and Bettie Sanders have a hole in their roof, water damage, and car damage. In other words, it's been a very good week. Several members of Tar Heel basketball player Byron Sanders's family--including his parents, Otis and Bettie, along with brother Otis, Jr. and a pair of aunts and uncles--live in Gulfport, Mississippi, an area ravaged by Hurricane Katrina earlier this week. (Tar Heel Blue)

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