Word: baskets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...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...
...what can you say about foul shooting? Use your legs, follow through, get back spin, put them into the basket. The Crimson lost at least one game--the Ivy opener against the Quakers--strictly at the line, muffing numerous free throws in the closing minutes of that two point defeat...
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...
...Harvard's high-scoring offense in the first half was 5-ft., 11-in. sophomore Karen Smith, who positioned herself beneath the basket and banked one layup after another, scoring 21 points before the first half buzzer sounded at 48-39 Harvard...