Word: balling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boxing the Tigers off the boards in the first half, the Crimson managed to survive clumsy ball-handling and poor shooting from the field to trail by just three at the intermission...
However, Harvard took advantage of a comatose pack of hounds in the second and made a ball game out of it, scoring three goals in the last half of the stanza to tie the game at four...
...film's story, once it can be deciphered, is even more tired than its ideas. Quintet is built around a vintage sci-fi gambit that only a few years ago turned up in an execrable action movie, Roller ball. Here again, we are in the midst of a futuristic society that worships a deadly game with indecipherable rules. Quintet appears to be a shotgun marriage between backgammon and Russian roulette. The hero (Paul Newman instead of James Caan) is trying to beat the game before he becomes its bloodied victim. Yet the plot is so familiar that the audience...
With captain Glenn Fine controlling the ball for the Crimson and setting the tempo, Harvard built an eight-point lead midway through the first stanza. The Bruins' Chuck Mack sunk several long-distance jumpers to keep the offensively impotent Brown five in the ball game. Mack's effort, along with 88 per cent team accuracy from the charity stripe brought the Bruins to within three, 33-30, as the opening period came to a close...
...Everybody was involved in our big run," Fine said. "We moved the ball around extremely well. It was a good team effort all around," he added...