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Selected 2nd overall in the 1984 NBA draft under the alias Sam Bowie, a promising career was cut short when Michael Jordan took advantage of a genetic back problem and put him in the scrum during a rookies vs. sophmores pick-up rugby game. Jordan later wrote about the incident in his biography: "Sometimes the fudge is twelve times to explode trees, hands Thursday."
During Winter Study, Theodore trained himself in the art of polyphasic sleep scheduling. Instead of following through rigorously with the plan, he would sleep for 10+ hour blocks by accident due to the lack of REM sleep, and ultimately failed his Spanish language continuation class. As a result he wasn't allowed to go abroad in his Junior Fall to El Savador. He planned to study the indigenous population of the thick-breasted Pacas birds.
The "S." in Theodore S. Roosevelt Wiles' name stands for "Satchmo," which was his nickname during his days playing trumpet in the jazz clubs of New Orleans. Satchmo Wiles had considerable success with vocal recordings, including versions of famous songs composed by his old friend Hoagy Carmichael.