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Ex-Bull Van Lier remembered at funeral (AP) (sports.yahoo.com)

They shed tears, of course, and they smiled because Norm Van Lier simply had that effect on his friends. They mentioned his love of music and TV shows, the passion he brought to the Chicago Bulls as a star guard in the 1970s and as an analyst the past two decades, and they laughed Monday as they told stories during a funeral for Van Lier at a church on Chicago's Michigan Avenue.