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With Yale on top, 34-23, a vintage blend of Crimson basketball players produced a second-half surge. The 6 ft-10 in. Beaulieu and forward Mark Hadley consistently collared caroms off the backboard and converted delicate jumpers to pace the freshmen...
...addition, the Minutemen took advantage of the Crimson's height deficit by out-rebounding them 47-33. Chief culprit was forward Jim Town, who swiped 18 off the backboard along with popping for 16 points. Town and Bouie of Syracuse were both named to the All-Tourney team...
...free throws with one second left; the team is down only by one. He misses the first, then concentrates with tongue-tip precision on the tying point. "I take a deep breath, draw back my arm and in one quick motion I hurl the ball twenty feet over the backboard into the crowd. And I laugh and laugh and laugh...
...fine art of refereeing has evolved over the years, although most of the changes are not on the order of macro-mutations. Besides basic rule changes that have come in, such as the ban on dunking and an automatic technical for vibrating the backboard, Diehl describes a fundamental change in the officials' psychological pampering of players. "We've had to adjust our thinking and our approach because the generation has changed, with their free speech so to speak. We'll give a kind word now instead of a technical...
...twin figures of Love and Evil, gyrating in painted ecstacy on Wizard's backboard, could not preside over a scene of more nearly apocalyptic import. It will never again be possible to construct a pinball machine with the relatively simple patterns we are familiar with--one bumper, regardless of sequence, predictably changing the value of another. In Wizard, only after the Thumper Bumper target is hit, or the Center Target target, are the appropriate flags flipped and roll-overs activated. And only then can the roll-overs activate their respective functions. The relationships of the many elements of the pinball...