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...what's the alternative? If you're not going to double, play off him a bit, and force him to hit some long shots at the start of the game (preferably with a hand in his face, of course). "Make him a jump shooter," says Los Angeles Clippers scout Evan Pickman. "And just hope he misses." Of course, Kobe is no shooting slouch. But over his last two series, against the Utah Jazz and San Antonio Spurs, he sank only 27% of his three-pointers, well below his 36% regular season average. If he's shooting from the outside instead...
...Harvard to step up its defensive ability and do something it had done very little of during the season—get stops inside the paint. A Princeton timeout late in the game did nothing to quell the Crimson’s rising ambitions. Unger, junior forward Evan Harris, and freshman forward Kyle Fitzgerald transformed into goliaths, crashing the boards with vigor and cleaning up missed opportunities on offense. “They couldn’t guard our big guys,” sophomore guard Jeremy Lin said. “Brad and Evan were just being physical down...
...third on the team at 4.8 per game), or blocking shots (second on the team with 18), Lin broke out as a leader in all facets of the game. “Jeremy’s great. He’s killin’!” junior forward Evan Harris said of Lin following a victory over Penn in February. “It’s great, especially for a sophomore to be stepping up like that—it’s a great sign for our future.” Early in the season...
...found Mr. Right in Mr. Big (Chris Noth); that randy Samantha (Kim Cattrall) has moved to California with her actor-boyfriend Smith (Jason Lewis); that Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) has married salt-of-the-earth Steve (David Eigenberg); and that Charlotte (Kristin Davis) is hitched to the homunculus Harry (Evan Handler...
Social workers should take race into account in adoptions, according to a new report from the nonprofit Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute--despite a 1994 law that prohibits doing so. While supporters of the Multiethnic Placement Act say attempting to match black children with black parents lengthens the time kids spend in foster care, the report argues that white parents are often ill-prepared to handle race-specific identity issues. It recommends race-related training for white parents as well as a drive to get more black parents to adopt...