Word: balling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...luck in terms of where I was," Russellsaid. "I was feeling aggressive the whole game. Alot of times the ball would bounce my way or Iwould sit on a rebound or a box-out way too longbefore getting the ball, and that was one opportunitywhere I really had to go get it, and that felt good...
Russell hit the first free throw to put the Crimsonup two. She missed the second and Penn guard ErinLadley pushed the ball upcourt, but Monti blockedher midcourt heave to preserve the win. Theblock--the second in Monti's career--was riskyconsidering Ladley would have gotten three freethrow attempts had a foul been called, but theplay was emblematic of the emotional gusto withwhich Monti played the entire game...
...shot from so low, the ball was barely outof her hands," said Monti, whose stat lineincluded nine points, 11 assists, six rebounds andtwo steals along with the block. "She wasn'tterribly in control and she wasn't really fallingeither, so I just kept my hand at a distance andshe came into me. I wouldn't have taken such arisk if I thought I might foul. My body wasn'tthere, it was really just my hand, and she cameinto...
...image out of my mind: "Mr. McGwire, I think I have something that belongs to you," 22-year-old Tim Forneris, a part-time grounds keeper for the St. Louis Cardinals, proudly decreed last fall as he handed over home-run ball No. 62--and with it probably the most expensive thing he would ever hold. Consider: a few weeks ago, a mysterious bidder paid $3 million to the guy who auctioned off home-run ball No. 70. I don't mean to pick on Forneris. Giving up the baseball was an honorable gesture. And he did get some fame...
...starters, Forneris was plain wrong about the ball's belonging to McGwire. Once the grounds keeper got his mitts on it, the ball was his. Says so right on every ticket to the game. He probably knew that and was thinking in grand, symbolic terms. Still, his act betrays a mind-set that leads many of us into grave errors in daily money matters. Here are Forneris' missteps and what you can learn from them...