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...were running a play with a baseline screen for Kevin and [senior captain] Jason [Norman],” Giovacchini said. “Kevin was overplayed, so I kicked it to Jason who threw it back. Since we didn’t need a three [at that point], I drove to the basket, but the shot came off a little hard...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hoops Falls in Heartbreaker | 1/10/2005 | See Source »

...opponents stood and slugged in the style of the bare-knuckle era, he weaved the way Muhammad Ali would later do. Outside the ring, the handsome, savvy and charismatic Johnson prefigured today's celebrity athletes (and polarizing black stars like Kobe Bryant and Mike Tyson). He wore tailored suits, drove custom cars and slept with many women, white women in particular. His boxing wins drew death threats and caused riots, but it was his sex life that most outraged whites, and many blacks. In 1913 he was tried under the Mann Act on charges of transporting a girlfriend across state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Too Black, Too Strong | 1/9/2005 | See Source »

...Goffredo drove the lane and missed a runner long, but junior forward Matt Stehle tipped the ball, and it banked in with just 0.2 left in regulation...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hoops Has Disappointing Showdown at Saturn Shootout | 1/5/2005 | See Source »

...with the Americans. They trained us." Libyans' friendliness to Americans is even clearer hundreds of miles down the coast at the Essider Marine Terminal, from which oil is shipped by the government-owned Waha Oil Co. The company took over the operation from U.S. companies in 1986, when sanctions drove out the Oasis Group, a combination of Amerada Hess, Marathon Oil and Conoco. But a handful of American citizens are still at work in the facility and have been throughout the decades of sanctions, in violation of U.S. laws. "Basically, we never left," says Conrad B. Cazalas, 58, an electrician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libya's New Face | 1/2/2005 | See Source »

...flash. One year he watched the tournament at Indian Wells and called 16 out of 17 double faults before they happened. This freaks him out. "What did I see?" Braden wonders. "I would lie in bed thinking, 'How did I do this? I don't know.' It drove me crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Jumping to Conclusions | 1/2/2005 | See Source »

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