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Ian Jackson brings ‘electric’ scoring potential to UNC basketball as a freshman


When was in seventh grade, mired in typical teenage growing pains — achy knees, dull pain in his legs — he developed a temporary limp. Nothing major and nothing that lingered, but still: a noticeable hitch in his gait. Noticeable enough that his middle school basketball coach gave him a nickname: Captain Jack. "Like a pirate," Jackson says. (New York Times)

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Ian Jackson brings ‘electric’ scoring potential to UNC basketball as a freshman