Some sad news to pass along this afternoon: Manute Bol, the iconic 7 foot, 7 inch big man — who, in recent years, had gained a cult following among Washingtonian basketball fans who fondly remembered his three-year stint with the then-Bullets in the late 1980s — died today. He was 47. Bol was, quite literally, one of the more visible players in the NBA during his ten-year career — especially when he teamed with…