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...Jocks' second platoon was led by the sterling play of 6-ft. 5-in. Financial Aid Officer John "Too-Tall" Morgan, a Detroit University forward in the early '60s. Morgan contributed 16 points to the winning cause with some tantalizing full-court rushes to the basket, completely overpowering his peerless adversaries...
...justice to the majesty and the savagery of the act. First comes the ballet move-an explosion in the legs, a concussive last step and then a great leap. Floating, twisting, pulling free of the floor, drifting over dazed defenders. Then the frozen moment, suspended above the basket, serene for a timeless instant. Finally the kill: ramming ball through rim in a single ferocious stab of hostility and triumph...
...spectators in New York's Madison Square Garden learned this lesson last Thursday night when Earl "the Pearl" Monroe, who has been playing basketball since his embryonic stage, became "confused" and sank a seven-foot jump shot into the wrong basket just as the game ended. So what, you ask, as long as Monroe's beloved Knicks still won the game? Ah, ignorance is bliss...
Jordan swings into his spacious office, a six-window, high-status corner formerly occupied by the likes of Bob Haldeman and Alexander Haig, but, he insists, the parallel stops there. He loosens his tie, takes a fast look at the in basket, then lopes into the Roosevelt Room for the daily 8 a.m. meeting of senior advisers. He takes his place at the big table, leaving Presidential Counsel Robert Lipshutz to preside, but Jordan's presence spills beyond his chair. He is recognized as the ascendant power...
...alai fronton. "I can't miss with you." It was Jerry Wurf, Washington-based boss of the State, County and Municipal Workers, the nation's largest public employees union (750,000 members), cheering on a lanky player on the court. But when unlucky Pierre swung his curved basket at the speeding white jai alai ball and missed, Wurf, who had not won a bet all night, resignedly tore up his losing $2 ticket. "If we don't win the next one," he told a companion, "I want to go home...