A world of difference
IN FOCUS: OU’s Longar Longar
Longar came to U.S. from Sudan at age 14

 
By Scott Wright
Published: December 9, 2006

NORMAN — When life gets tough for Longar Longar — when he misses his family, when school work is bearing down on him, when he feels like he can’t possibly run another wind sprint — he doesn’t think back to all of his life’s difficult times.

Longar, a junior basketball player at Oklahoma , doesn’t think about how he survived his childhood in the African country of Sudan as it was engulfed by a civil...


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