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...strong zone defenses, forcing outside shots and cautious ball-handling. Harvard got the edge with expert pace-setting and play-making by the point-guard duo of Scannell and McMahon. The pair ran its plays like clockwork, passing back and forth, feeding to an open Elaine Holpuch beneath the basket, and hitting long outside shots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winning Weekend for Cagers | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

...Bruins' Scott McCarthy converted a pretty lob under the basket to put his team ahead 59-43 with five minutes remaining and the Crimson sinking fast...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Cagers Fall to Brown, 75-58, To Open Ivy League Season | 1/8/1980 | See Source »

...young men like Dominique Wilkins tend to be regarded as state monuments. Dominique is 6 ft. 7 in. tall. He can hang in the air like a bat and do things with a basketball that Dr. James Naismith, who invented the game, never contemplated. Like slam it through the basket from all sorts of odd angles, with such style that by the time he was a high school junior, sportswriters were already calling him "Dr. Dunk." Led by Dominique, the Washington High School Pam Pack won back-to-back state Triple-A league championships and built up a 56-game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In North Carolina: The Strange Case of Dr. Dunk | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...states probably will not go along with any effort to dump the dollar as the currency of the world oil trade, a move that would undermine the value of the greenbacks they already hold. But Iran and Libya are urging OPEC to switch from dollars to a so-called basket of currencies, which presumably would include German marks, Swiss francs and other Western money, and a fight at next week's meeting seems likely. In the doubtful event that OPEC did take such a step, demand for those currencies would send their value soaring on money markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Here They Come Again | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Hall's speed to the basket led Kleinfelder to boast after the game, "Frenesa can drive on anybody...anybody." Against a man-to-man defense, she probably...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Women Hoopsters: A Team on the Rebound | 12/14/1979 | See Source »

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