LAST WORD

It was a clean bachelor party.”

Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney during his weekly news conference, explaining how he met Michael Jordan in July 1994. Swinney, then a grad assistant at Alabama, was having his bachelor party outside Birmingham, Alabama, and Jordan, playing minor league baseball there at the time, showed up at the same club, a dance bar called “Jitterbugs.” Swinney introduced himself to Jordan. Swinney said Jordan was “super nice.”