DURHAM, N.C. -- Sports is global — nothing earth-shattering about that statement. In the recent NBA Draft, a record 26 international players were chosen among the 60 picks. The top-ranked male golfer in the world hails from Australia, the top-ranked female from New Zealand. The Minnesota Twins have a German outfielder.
Which partially explains how former Blue Devil Lindsey Harding punched her ticket to Rio de Janeiro as a member of the 2016 Belarus Olympic Team.
The eastern European, former Soviet republic needed a point guard. And Lindsey Harding is most emphatically a point guard.