The Salt Lake Tribune -- Center's Rebound: Weber State player has rediscovered a love of basketball after it once seemed to be a curse: "'Once, [Majerus] said to me in practice, 'You're just a deaf dumb f---. You must have a learning disability.' . . . [But] I had the best grade-point average on the team,' Allred says. 'Another time, my sophomore year, on January 6th, 2002, during practice at St. Mary's College, he told me: 'Lance, you've weaseled yourself through life using your hearing as an excuse. You're a disgrace to cripples. If I was a cripple in a wheelchair and saw [the way] you play basketball, I'd shoot myself.' He said that in front of the whole team . . . At that point, I said, 'I don't want to play for him.' "