Word: gymnasium
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...After a half-hour of video McClintock and Byrne join the rest of the Sharks in an unheated gymnasium across campus for the pregame shootaround, which is endured by the shivering players in parkas and toques. Outside it is 7?C; inside it feels about half as warm. During the halfhearted workout the coaches' infrequent instructions are translated for McClintock and Byrne by an exceptional teammate: Ma Jian, the 2-meter power forward who, a decade ago, became the first mainland Chinese to play basketball at a major U.S. college, Utah. Like McClintock, Ma?whose given name, Jian, means Healthy...
Radcliffe College originally built Rieman in 1898 as a gymnasium for sports and dance...
...what was most striking about McPhee’s book was that the attention the author showered upon Bradley seemed justified. Rumors of the next great basketball star filled Princeton’s Dillon Gymnasium beyond capacity game after game when Bradley was a freshman, and McPhee wrote lustily of the “undergraduates who massed to praise Allah” after the star returned from dominating the NCAA Tournament. Bradley sold out Madison Square Garden and filled seats just for his warm-ups. And so on. Fan reaction suggested that McPhee’s investment of energies made...
McGrath Lewis said Hemenway Gymnasium, which was considered as a potential relocation site before Byerly Hall’s lease was extended by Radcliffe in 2000, may again be a possibility...
...Hemenway Gymnasium] could be made very agreeable, but I don’t know if it’s still on the list,” she said...