7-foot-7 Manute Bol teamed up with 5-foot-7 Spud Webb on the Rhode Island Gulls of the United States Basketball League (USBL), a pro spring league, before both entered the NBA in 1985. (Manny Millan/SI)
I’m glad the portrait of Ben Franklin stayed the same on the new $100 bill. There’s something about his slight, tight frown, the paternal hint of disappointment in his eyes and those pursed, sealed lips that seem to say, “I don’t approve of what you’re doing, but I can’t stop you from rolling this banknote into a straw and ripping a fat rail of white lightning in the Buffalo Wild Wings handicapped bathroom stall, you goddamn beautiful disaster.”
