Centre Daily Times | 06/19/2005 | Foreign recruit arrives early to strengthen his game:
“The big man smiles wearily. It’s the middle of the afternoon, and practice is still to come. His muscles cry out, still sore from the weight training he is still unaccustomed to. His body clock tells him it’s bedtime soon.
“‘I haven’t practiced like this in my life,’ Milos Bogetic says.
“A month ago, the newest Nittany Lion basketball player was playing ball in his native Serbia and Montenegro. He had never been anywhere in the United States, never mind Penn State’s University Park campus, where he will soon complete his first semester.
“Most of his new teammates won’t arrive until the end of the month, and he isn’t permitted to work with Ed DeChellis or the other Penn State coaches. Until then, Bogetic is taking classes. Expanding his English. Learning to like American food.
“Basketball? That will come later.
“‘Everything’s so different,’ Bogetic says, ‘but I’m adjusting.’ …”