Word: cross-courts
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...court and score a point. If they miss a shot before scoring six points, the thousands of cheering armed citizens fire away. If they fail to shoot before 24 seconds have expired, the thousands of cheering armed citizens fire away. No prisoners survive the game, until Snake sinks a cross-court shot for his sixth point to escape death...
That's when Jose came through yet again with an unbelievable smash for a side out. Forcum quickly followed with a powerful cross-court rocket that left two Lions frozen on the court and left the scoreboard reading 10-7, Harvard. The match ended without Columbia scoring again...
CCSU pulled closer once again, but this time it was Logan, who seemed to come up with the big plays all match, who put a cross-court kill in the back left corner to end the rally. A short while later, leading 13-12 Logan again stifled a CCSU run with a tremendous smash right through the heart of its defense. No problem. Final score 15-12, match to Harvard...
...traits often overlap -- but Jordan sometimes seemed to resent the fact that he had four teammates on the floor with him. His talent was so singular that he was often competing only against himself, against the memory of his last impossible dunk, his last acrobatic steal, his last whizzing cross-court assist. And in the end, that kind of competition bored...
Tantrums took over tennis after that. Connors, John McEnroe and others transformed the courts into arenas where invective upstaged the delicacy of a drop shot, where insulting the umpire became more important than applauding an opponent's cross-court backhand. Ashe would have none of it. The game, like life, of course had to be conducted with passion, but dignity had to be maintained...