Word: fadeaway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...money, facilities, travel expenses and television revenues?are at stake. Already basketball coaches are luring transfer students to their campuses with no fear of penalty: the A.I.A.W., unlike the N.C.A.A., does not require transfer athletes to sit out a season. A 5-ft. 10-in. forward with a good fadeaway jumper can, and increasingly does, play musical colleges. Michigan Athletic Director Donald Canham watches from the sidelines and notes: "The women had a golden opportunity to establish an athletic program with the men's mistakes as a guide. I think women will regret the change. They now have almost...
Harvard was back ahead, 17-15, when Bobby Allen popped from 20 but McDonald hit his third bucket of the half to even it up. Midway through the first half Frank Konstantynowicz netted a fadeaway baseline jumper as the Crimson's lead mounted to 26-21. The Quakers regained a 31-30 edge on a Tim Smith layup with 7:33 left in the half and never fell behind again until the closing minutes...
...Crimson fusillade began in earnest when Irion fired through a jumper, followed by a Hooft corner fadeaway. Both then drilled home in-close field goals to make the score...
...Boneless Fadeaway. Ogdon and his pianist wife Brenda Lucas, together with their children Annabel, 9, and Richard, 5, live quietly in a town house on London's Regent's Park. There he seems the farthest thing in the world from what many consider him to be: a reincarnation of the flamboyant temperaments of bygone eras. His handshake is a boneless fadeaway. His response to a lengthy conversational thrust of a close friend is likely to range from a noncommittal "Mmmmmmm," to a rare "Very interesting." Brenda recalls that when she first met him at music school, he hardly...