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Diving catches as the ball moves deep into foul territory...
...would almost inevitably delve into the alleged flow of money between Madison and Whitewater Development Co., in which the Clintons were partners with James McDougal, Madison's former owner. Thus the participants in the vain attempt to get Stephens could try to invoke the basketball rule: no harm, no foul. Or they could claim that when White House aides made remarks merely to express dislike and suspicion of Stephens (the aides make no secret they consider him a "right-wing zealot" out to get the President), those statements were misinterpreted as a demand that Stephens be fired. Still...
Over the course of my years here, I've said a lot of near-libelous things. I've said some crappy things about the men's basketball team in its 1-11 days (I once called one of its members the "Human Foul"). I've called the football team boring and bad. I've bashed strange substitutions on the women's soccer team. I've criticized people individually and collectively and I've stretched the truth...
...after knocking off North Carolina in the "Elite Eight," the Bulldogs made it to Albuquerque, N.M. and the Final Four against another Cinderella in Wolf(pack)'s clothing, N.C. State. Jim Valvano's sixth seed would have lost in the first round but for the poor foul shooting of Pepperdine, but they were still around to knock off the Bulldogs and set up a matchup in the finals against Akeem (before the "H") Olajuwon's Houston Cougars, generally regarded as the best team in the country at the time...
Harvard was also handicapped by the fact that it practically did not foul at all in the second half, thus making it difficult to force the Bears to the line in the closing minutes...