The Harlem Globetrotters came to Berkeley this weekend.

For our readers in France, I'll explain. For 84 years, the Harlem Globetrotters have been amusing and delighting basketball fans with fake exhibition matches against a fake team named the Washington Generals. The Washington Generals are the losingest team in sports history, with more than 13,000 losses. Their last win was in 1971.

Dean saw them quite a few times growing up. The players may have changed, but the gags were all the same. The unstoppable "weave" offense. The helium-filled basketball balloon at tip-off. Ah, tradition.