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GARY PETERSON: TIMES COLUMNIST
Let's rebound and say Yao's for real
CURRENT EVENT No. 1: Yao Ming comes to town to play the Warriors on
Monday night.
Current event No. 2: This is the first authentically gorgeous weekend
of the new year, meaning that most of the newspaper-reading public will
spend today outside pulling weeds or practicing their flop wedge.
Conclusion: There will never be a better time to confess that we were
dead wrong about Yao from th
