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...year. For 86 years, the Hoosier State's high school basketball tournament was winner-take-all, no matter how big the team or how small. Not now: Some geniuses decided that it would be more sporting to break the tourney into divisions, based on school size. David vs. David, Goliath vs. Goliath. No more Bobby Plump, whose buzzer-beater in 1954 gave tiny Milan High (enrollment 161) the state title and a hallowed place in local legend...
WASHINGTON: On the Internet, Goliath crushed David. But when Bill Gates went head-to-head with Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the little guy -- aided by a gang of sympatico senators -- was finally able to get a slingshot in. Kicking off the hearings in a basketball-court-sized room, Sen. Orrin Hatch called for a fair fight. "Neither this hearing, nor any aspect of this committee's inquiry, are intended to serve as an arena for attacking any single company," he said...
Indeed the rules of the game in the Ivy League have changed. No longer is Harvard the unbeatable basketball monolith, the lone Goliath to seven Ancient Eight Davids...
DALLAS, Texas--David slew Goliath with good shooting...
...percent from the field, including more than 60 percent in the second half and an amazing 14-for-21 from beyond the three-point arc in the heartbreaker. The Crimson's mind-boggling shooting and outright hustle was all it had to keep it in the game against the goliath Mustangs...