The car rides to and from practices or games were too numerous to count. Elzie Harrington would sit in the passenger seat, listening to his father empty his overflowing reservoir of knowledge, contemplating it, absorbing it.

His father is no longer alive, passing away late last month from brain cancer, but the wisdom lives on inside him.

That, and the never-ending quest to obtain it.

Dr. Darrell Harrington was a voracious reader. Elzie went into his library at their home in Long Beach, picked out a few books and started reading them.

The incoming freshman guard at San Diego State was excused from summer practices the week before his father died and stayed with his family for an additional week afterward. He tried to work out on his own; his mind, admittedly, was elsewhere.

“I’ve been

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