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Harvard kept hitting and got the lead down to four with about five minutes to play. Then forward Nate Davis tried to slam-dunk the ball on a fast break, only to have Rogers get in his way in an attempt to draw a charging foul. Davis hit the dunk, and Rogers was charged with a flagrant foul. Both free throws were good, and The Crimson was never close after that...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Hoopsters Take an Early Vacation With a Three-Game Losing Streak | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...Every time they dunk, the crowd goes bananas," recalls Kallaugher. "It was phenomenal. All of a sudden 6000 people said 'fua.' It was outrageous." Kallaugher was quizzical when it came to pinning down the exact meaning of "fua." "It's an emotional word that just has to do with a dunk," he explained...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Puerto Rico Welcomes Classics on Good Will Tour | 4/7/1976 | See Source »

...when he was eleven, but Washington did not flip for baseball at the tune. In fact, he shunned it all the way through Berkeley High School in Berkeley, Calif., where his real passion was basketball. (Small by basketball standards, Washington leaps so high that he has tune to dunk two balls on the same jump.) During the summers he played baseball on a city team, and it was there in 1972 that A's Scout Jim Guinn signed him. Guinn, who had spotted Washington playing at age 13, had no competition, since nobody else even knew about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Make Way For Washington | 7/21/1975 | See Source »

...court so hard that he sometimes bursts the seams of his size 14½ sneakers. During a recent game with the Denver Nuggets, officials had to stop play for 20 minutes while workmen replaced a steel rim that McGinnis had bent out of shape with one of his slamming dunk shots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Mac | 5/19/1975 | See Source »

...skit they are proclaiming their undying love to each other. They didn't really leave paradise, because they still had each other, and that, you see, is paradise. Unfortunately, Bock and Harnick insist upon reiterating this devastating insight three times in songs so soggy with sentimentality you could dunk your donuts in them...

Author: By Setn Kapten, | Title: Rotten Core | 5/2/1975 | See Source »

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