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...Lions, sharing the third place last season with the Crimson, return all five starters including All-Ivy selection Craig Austin. Brown seeks to make a giant leap behind arguably the two best returning players in the league from last season...
Junior forward Craig Austin, the first Columbia player named to the All-Ivy team in seven years, will lead a potent Lions attack. As the first sophomore captain since the 1977-78 season, Austin finished the season as the team's leading scorer, averaging 14.2 points per game...
...Austin will be complemented in the frontcourt by junior swingman Joe Case and junior forward Mike McBrien. Case returns as the top three-point threat in the league while also leading the team in rebounding last season (5.5 rpg). The versatile McBrien, who plays all three frontcourt positions, can also threaten from outside, shooting 52 percent from beyond the arc last season...
...first time I ever heard my mother sound nervous was last July, and by then she had been dead for two years. I was at the L.B.J. library in Austin, Texas, listening to a telephone call she had placed to President Lyndon Johnson more than four years before I was born. "Nancy Dickerson is on line two," begins the White House operator. Johnson picks up: "Yes, honey." She tries to start with a joke, but it warbles out: "The next time I need a new swimming suit I'm going to consult you." The President is silent, having forgotten...
...stride, but that's because I am following in her footsteps. (Though, of course, she did it all in heels.) I've been on the other end of that phone line, tap-dancing to bring a source around. And this year, I've been shuttling from Washington to Austin, stuffing myself at age 32 into the Bush campaign jet the way she did into those drafty prop planes in the same town, at the same age, 40 years ago. I too have drinks at the Driskill hotel and send a postcard to my dad on a slow afternoon...