Manute Bol — son and grandson of Dinka ... he always felt responsible for a lot of people,” Bona said. On Aug. 20, 1998, Bol sat on the rooftop of his Khartoum home and watched missile after ...

Manute Bol is a millionaire basketball player with the Philadelphia 76ers, and it is the way of his Dinka tribe for those with money and food to help those without. But his $1.3 million salary is ...

Manute Bol was an NBA player who died in 2010 ... was a tribal elder of the Dinka tribe. In that profile, Manute spoke of the ritual scarring ceremonies ... People tell him all the time he looks ...

The main rebel grouping, the Sudan People's Liberation Army, is led by people from Bol's Dinka tribe. Bol became a fervent supporter of their cause, lobbying hard on Capitol Hill and generously ...

NBA star Manute Bol towered on the basketball ... about 20,000 boys from the Dinka and Nuer ethnic groups who fled Sudan ... “He literally gave his life for his people,” Brownback said ...

When their firstborn arrived, on Nov. 16, 1999, they named him Bol Manute Bol, partly in honor of Manute’s late grandfather, Bol Chol Bol, the great Dinka chief who was said to be 7' 10" and ...

Manute Bol, the colorful 7-7 ... A member of the Dinka tribe, ... “I had a good time with the American people,” he said in 2001. “I hope they remember me as a good guy who played hard.

Manute Bol, who is best known ... 'You know, a lot of people ... May Have Coined 'My Bad' Geoffrey K. Pullum of the University of Pennsylvania's Language Log explains the theory that Bol's Dinka ...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Manute Bol, the towering former NBA shot ... a Dinka chieftain in the village, named his son ... Pride played a significant role in all that he has done for the people of ...

At 7-foot-7, Manute Bol was never able to buy off the rack, as Indianapolis Ice equipment manager Darrin Flinchem found out while fitting him for hockey pads.

Manute Bol has traded in his basketball sneakers and boxing trunks and now is in a shocking search for a pair of ice skates. Manute Bol figures to stand out in the hockey crowd, just as he did in ...