Summer for college kids conjures thoughts of road trips, pizza boxes stacked floor-to-ceiling, sleeping till noon, and working out thumbs texting and tweeting.
Then there's Sean O'Mara, who spent the summer between his sophomore and junior years at Xavier working out everything but his thumbs.
Pizza was off the table, replaced by chicken, fish, and steamed vegetables. Late wakeups? Early workouts. O'Mara's roadie of note took him to a sweltering gym in Houston, battling bigger men inside and working to developing the face-up game increasingly essential these days for players standing 6-foot-10 on a basketball court, as O'Mara does.