Yannick Noah on Joakim: Big freaking deal

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 Yannick Noah on Joakim: Big freaking deal
Ah, the father-son relationship. Dad teaches son right from wrong, how to throw a ball, how to tie his shoe, so on and so forth. And when the son gets caught for something as trivial as drinking a beer on the sidewalk at a legal age, they defend him . “I don’t understand all that fuss for just drinking a beer on the street,” Yannick Noah said Tuesday at the French Open.  ... [link]

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The Fuzz Got Joakim Noah Twice, But Dad's Not Mad
Published 5/27/2008 by Tom Ziller at FanHouse
... Sun reports Noah had another meeting with authorities over the weekend, getting ticketed for driving on a suspended license and not wearing a seatbelt (via Blog-a-Bull). Licenses get suspended for all sorts of reasons, and the Sun doesn't know why Jo was out of compliance. Honestly, Noah's pop Yannick (a former tennis star) sort-of has the right idea with these comments given to the Associated Press following the weekend's first incident (via We Are the Postmen): "I don't understand all that fuss for just drinking a beer ...

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