Word: gaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...game warmup before any women's basketball game will tell the whole story. You see the sanitary socks, pulled high and just below the knee, underneath the striped uniform socks. And then you see the shot. Not the jumping grenade-throw that the women hoopsters sometimes favor, but an easy-arching, back-spinning jump shot that usually doesn't bother with the backboard, much less...
...Harvard, women's sports seem to have finally thrown off the shackles of their former country club status. The days of going to practice a couple of times a week or missing a game because you had to study for an hourly are virtually gone. Acceptance has followed as the intensity, popularity, and quality of women's athletics has grown...
Curry blossomed quickly, leading the women cagers in scoring in her freshman year with an 11.7 average. The team finished 18-3 on the year and won the state Division Two basketball crown. She proved her all-around ability on the hardwood by setting single-game and single-season records in rebounds and assists...
...first time in a while, Harvard's timing was repeatedly off. "We were thinking too much," leftwinger Sara Fischer said after the game. "People would see someone else breaking and think, 'Should I pass it now or wait?' By the time we made up our mind, it was too late." Plays that had worked before came close to working again--then just missed. A superfluous pass or a premature shot was enough to turn likely scoring chances into blown opportunities...
...Harvard goal," the voice boomed, "their fourth of the game..." A Freudian slip? Wait 'til next year...