KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In a certain sense, anyway, University of Kansas guard Remy Martin was born about two years too soon in 1998.
"I've always told him, had you been born later, your name would have been Maximus," his father, Sam, said.
As in the character played by Russell Crowe in the movie "Gladiator." Which is part of why "the most surreal moment of this whole thing" to Sam Martin, the one that engulfed the retired Los Angeles police officer in chills, was the one that cascaded through the United Center on Sunday after KU had clobbered Miami 76-50 in the men's NCAA Tournament Elite Eight round to advance to the Final Four.
