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.Brownback talked about how Bol's "special" heart
and his humanitarian efforts in Sudan, including building schools and
churches.
Here's the video from The
Washington Post (via Pro
Basketball Talk).
In the video, Brownback mistakenly said that Bol "coined the idiom, the phrase 'my
bad.'"
"To own up to one's own mistakes is a true measure of one's character,
and it's no surprise that Manute leaves this legacy to the NBA,"
Brownback said.
Bol did popularize
the phrase, but he didn't make up the phrase, according to Dan
Steinberg of The
Washington
Post.
I made
the same mistake yesterday. So, uh, my bad.
