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What do you mean, we?

In the terrific boxing documentary When We Were Kings, George Plimpton recounts the story of Muhammad Ali's commencement speech to the graduates of Harvard University. "Give us a poem!" one student shouted. Ali surveyed the quieting crowd and said: "Me, we."

"It stands for something more than the poem itself," Plimpton said.

It stands, in fact, for everything that's wrong with personal pronoun usage in modern sports.

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