Or, maybe, a club in the market for a veteran backup big man might want Collins for a reasonable contract, gay or not.

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The wind all but came out of the Knicks' sails after Hibbert's block, as both Chandler and backup big man Kenyon Martin fouled out in the waning minutes.

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Starting center Dewayne Dedmon and backup big man James Blasczyk were suspended indefinitely and missed the league tourney following allegations the pair was involved in a melee in Spokane, Wash.

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That would be Matthew James Thomas, the young British actor who played Peter Parker several times a week in the original company of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, " as a backup to Reeve Carney.

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It is not the perfect backup plan, but for a woman who wants to experience pregnancy and childbirth and for a man who cares about passing on his DNA, it is not a bad one, either.

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Still, fearing that Rempel's editors might get cold feet, Jackson had arranged for an ideologically sympathetic "backup" -- in this case the conservative American Spectator's resident "hit man" David Brock -- to be given the same stories on an embargoed basis.

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