Word: hoop
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HOOPLA OVER HOOP DREAMS...
Thanks for your perceptive article on the controversy over Hoop Dreams' not getting an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature [Show Business, Feb. 27]. However, Richard Corliss referred to the possibility that the documentary nominating committee may have preferred a no-risk, PBS-style format," and I feel it necessary to set the record straight: Hoop Dreams, in fact, is a public-broadcasting project. It was a co-production of St. Paul's Twin Cities Public Television and Chicago's Kartemquin Educational Films, and was funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS (among others). This risk-taking film...
Harvard and Brown exchanged baskets through the early part of the first half. Hadrick pulled out the first of several spectacular shots at the 16:35 mark, sinking a scoop-to-the-hoop and nailing the subsequent free throw to give Harvard a 7-6 lead...
...Kathy] told me to look for my shot in the first half," Flandermeyer said. "At halftime, I just spent some time alone and thought about putting the ball in the hoop and going up strong...
...extending the offer of an education as well as venue in which to play sports, colleges are already performing an enormous service to young student-athletes. In the event that they blow out a knee on a drive to the hoop, their college degree will make it likely that they will be able to have some sort of life outside the lines. That's privilege enough in itself...