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This afternoon at 1:30 in the Indoor Athletic Building the Crimson will return to the hardwood, still looking for their first victory. They will face the Boston College Eagles, who have beaten Lemoyne and lost to the University of New Hampshire thus far this season...
...Frank McLaughlin and his quintet of cagers may receive a baptism by fire tomorrow night when they tip off the season against UMass in the IAB at 7:30. Coach Jack Leaman's squad went 20-11 last season and in two of those victories the Minutemen anointed the hardwood with Crimson jerseys...
Grant Parke III remembers Green from the hardwood courts of Phillips Exeter, from the Eastern Preppy League, when he was often the only black body to be found on the court or in the stands, back when leather was for whitetrash townie dropouts and all Paris' shirts had a crocodile on the left tit. The days of covert co-optations and a credit to his race. Shanghaied off a street corner on the basis of a high I.Q. test and a higher shooting percentage for his ninth-grade five fixed up with a minority-athletic scholarship and a battery...
...will go to the NCAA championships, the Celtics and Bruins take over the Boston Garden. Sunday afternoon, the Celts will host the Phoenix Suns, the team that challenged the Celts for the NBA championship last year. Directly following the game, the Garden workers will be busily stripping the hardwood off the ice so that the Bruins can thrash the Los Angeles Kings...
...masse. If a swimmer's time was abnormally slow, dejection and a determination to do better would show visibly on her face, while a new personal-best time might prompt an athlete to swim extra laps with seemingly endless energy. A euphoric basketball squad would rush onto the hardwood and mob each other with embraces when victorious, but when defeated the team would walk somberly to their locker room, grab a Coke and a pretzel, and hurry off to the solitude of a hot shower...