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Basketball players are the best athletes in the world, and that's not just the NBA marketing machine talking. Today's game requires track-star speed and agility, the hand-eye coordination of a .300 hitter and the ability to withstand linebacker-style punishment delivered by guys who are often much bigger than linebackers. Iverson, 26, a former Virginia high school-quarterback phenom, takes hits without fear. He's developed a jump shot that's excellent from 24 feet away and deadly at midrange. Then there's his speed. In his college days at Georgetown, sports photographers actually...
...American slugger named Karl ("Tuffy") Rhodes may just save the day. The journeyman left-handed hitter with cornrows in his hair and humility in his voice has been lighting up the scoreboard in recent weeks with prodigious home runs. Through Saturday, with three weeks left in the regular season, Rhodes was just three home runs shy of tying the single-season record of 55 set by the legendary Sadaharu Oh in 1964. Japan isn't sure it wants an American to break the mark, but Rhodes seems pumped. "If I get four more in the next 10 games...
...Outside hitter Erin Denniston, the team’s captain and lone senior, led by example, finishing the weekend with a team-high 35 kills and a .400 kill percentage. Now with 1,171 kills in her career, Denniston is 50 kills away from establishing a new Harvard record...
Several players registered their first significant playing time of the season against the Leopards. Sophomore outside hitter Amy Dildine racked up nine kills and freshman setter Kim Gould posted 15 assists...
Although the underclassmen provided the bulk of the offensive firepower, Jellin also incorporated Denniston and junior outside hitter Nicole Meunier in the attack. Denniston finished with seven kills and Meunier notched...