Word: arrows
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Arranging exchanges like these is the job of the Barterbank, 12 Arrow St., a referral network serving the Boston area that opened in Harvard Square in November...
...ball. The Ivy title's on the line, and Harvard's playing superhuman defense. Tiger point guard Gary Knapp looks around in wild desperation--there's no-one open, no-one at all. Finally it comes, the referee's whistle. And everyone whirls to look at a little arrow on the scorer's table. It's pointing at Princeton, and the game is all but over...
Following the dictum of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), athletic directors all across the country have been purchasing "possession indicators," little scoreboards with a pair of illuminated arrows pointing in opposite direction. After the game-opening jump ball, the lighted arrow points toward the team that lost the jump; the next time a jump ball situation develops, that team just takes the ball out of bounds; for the rest of the game, the all-powerful arrow alternates back and forth after each jump situation...
UCLA, for one, has already tasted the arbitrariness of the rule. Twice in the first month of the season, once against Brigham Young and again versus Rutgers, it played gutsy late defense, forced a jump, and then watched it mean nothing. The arrow was pointing the wrong...
December 3, 1:35 a.m.--An officer responding to a University Health Services call investigated an assault on a male student at the Bow and Arrow Pub. The student had been hit with a beer bottle by a woman at the pub and was receiving sutures on the head. The woman was arrested by the Cambridge Police...