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Sportswriters never get the chance to hit a game-winning homerun, make a game-winning basket or score a game-winning touchdown...
...Nabisco bombshell broke three days after Philip Morris offered $11.5 billion to buy Kraft. That merger, if consummated, would create the world's largest consumer-goods company: Philip Morris' Marlboro cigarettes, Maxwell House coffee and Miller beer would move into the same corporate basket as Kraft's Velveeta cheese, Parkay margarine and Breyers ice cream...
Professional basketball offers Larry Bird, Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson. These players transcend the simple object of the game--to put the ball in the basket--and give us drama. They are better than their contemporaries because they alone can consistently turn the basketball into something...
Jordan uses the ball as a balloon to carry him from the foul line to the basket in one leap. Bird uses it as a torpedo, which he zips through opposing defenses and into the hands of an open man. Johnson uses it as a charm to hypnotise opposing players...
...think Chicago could click because they have not had an inside threat," he says. "Cartwright is one of the better players in the league playing with his back to the basket...