Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Women's Squash at Howe Cup...
...balls with laser-like precision deep into his opponent's backhand. In fact, his game was the antithesis of his public persona. It was the fire that flowed out from behind an impassive mask and through his fingertips. In John McPhee's 1969 book Levels of the Game, Davis Cup teammate and occasional opponent Clark Graebner described Ashe's game: "He comes out on the court and he's tight for a while, then he hits a few good shots and he feels the power to surge ahead. He gets looser and more liberal with the shots he tries...
Roll Call in the Training Room: Sophomore Jon Karlen (hip injury) and Ben-Shachar (flu) did not play yesterday. Men's Co-Captain Neal Tew is also out, but Ben-Shachar will play this weekend, and all three are expected back for the Howe Cup next weekend...
Squint hard enough and there's Bobby Orr, frozen horizontally in time after his overtime goal beat the Blues for the Stanley Cup...
...supported efforts in 1970 to ban South Africa from the Davis Cup tennis tournament and was arrested in 1985 during an anti-apartheid protest at the South African Embassy in Washington...