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When Feaster returned to the WNBA in 2000, the pieces were in place for the Sparks to have a breakthrough season. Under new head coach, 1987 NBA Defensive Player of the Year Michael Cooper, the Sparks went 28-4 and twice beat the three-time defending WNBA Champion Houston Comets en route to wining the Western Conference's regular-season crown...
...would be an appropriate ending to a breakthrough season for a team that hardly goes recognized...
...Columbia won the game on their counterattack, " Kim said. "We obviously dominated the possession, but they would clear the ball long and let their quick forwards get to it for the breakthrough...
Students also say chemistry lab work's all-or-nothing pace puts pressure on grad students to produce. When students get close to a break-through, they feel extra pressure to stay the extra hours or the extra nights or weekends to get that breakthrough...
...right, that first paragraph was one big lie. But it's already a journalistic tradition to make Charlize Theron (the last name rhymes with heron) sound sexy, sassy and adventurous. Ever since her breakthrough role as Helga, the Teutonic man killer in the 1996 shoot-'em-up flick 2 Days in the Valley, magazines and newspapers have delighted in telling her story: how she modeled and danced her way off a farm in South Africa, how a bad knee ended her ballet career, how she was discovered by a Hollywood talent manager in a bank. Despite a large body...