Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First and foremost, the teams change. In the regular season you play the teams in your division twice and begin to get familiar with teams in the other division. Then the playoffs start and that river team you beat by 35 during the regular season--remember the one with no one over 5'9" on the entire squad--shows up with two 6'8", 260-pound guys with range and some sweet post moves. Yeah, the ringers come out--those guys that didn't think the regular season was worth the trouble...
...defense also really changes once the season progresses into the playoffs as well--as in people play defense. All of a sudden everyone cares about winning. People need to play post defense to deal with those 6'8" ringers and things begin to look like real basketball. People have to set screens and work for good shots--during the regular season, the games often feel like pick-up games...
Boxing is not purely an individual accomplishment for Liu. She is also involved with promotion of the whole sport. When newcomers begin boxing, she takes time to offer her advice and teach them the basics. Motivated by Liu, Woden Teachout, a graduate student in Eliot House, started boxing...
HUPD's blotter includes some daily printouts that begin reporting incidents...
...begin with the tale of the fin, its rise and fall from the American car and the American Dream. The design staff at General Motors copied the first fins off a top-secret U.S. Air Force plane (the Lockheed P-38), quietly grafting them as little bumps on the rear of the 1948 Cadillac. The next year's model was a best seller, and as the 1950s progressed, the fins proliferated. They appeared on Oldsmobiles, on Buicks, on Chryslers, with Fords finally sprouting them in 1957. The fins, fickle as Paris hemlines, grew wide and high, rising...