Topic: Richard Reid

SLP2002030101- ST. LOUIS, Mar. 1, 2002, (UPI) -- A Kwane James, the six-foot-eight-inch basketball player that subdued and held Richard Reid, "The Shoe Bomber", aboard American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami in December of 2001, watches practice at the Savvis Center in St. Louis, Mo., before the start of the Missouri Valley Conference Basketball Tournament. James is on hand to receive the conference's Most Courageous Award. James played his college ball at Evansville 1999. bg/Bill Greenblatt UPI