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Article: Remembering boring Alamo, San Antonio

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SAN ANTONIO -- Absolutely biased. Got that? I will not pretend otherwise for a moment. I have a closed mind.

It's San Antonio. No, it's probably more than that. It's Texas, though specifically San Antonio.

I'd call it indifference, except everyone who does like it goes so ridiculously overboard it almost pushes you to genuine dislike.

Which is why it's hard to get too excited over Lakers coach Phil Jackson's tweaks at San Antonio -- mild stuff that has the local populace acting like their Stetsons are on too tight.

He called it overflowing with conventioneers and a tourist trap. Is there really an argument here? He said the water in the San

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