Word: hoop
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Score of the Olympic men's basketball finals. The boast that the games showcase amateur athletics was never more hollow than when attached to the U.S. hoop squad. The Dream Team (the N.B.A. 11 best players plus Duke's Christian Laettner) naturally gave opponents the DTs. It was a brutal, pointless spectacle, akin to the Harlem Globetrotters doing their sideshow humiliation, for fun and profit, of a flat-footed pickup team...
...Mary's did not score its first hoop until more than four minutes into the game on a three point shot by guard Richard Sullivan. Its potent offense could not tally again until 11:40 in the first half, cutting Harvard's lead to a mere...
...bands, Ross Perot supporters, model searches, Girbaud jeans displays, mechanical bulls, fashion shows and hula hoop contests were the attraction. All of it for just five bucks...
...score points, each player makes his way through a six-wicket (hoop) course twice with the possibility of scoring 13 points--one per wicket and one extra point for hitting a central...
Marciulionis is a bull, driving fearlessly to the hoop. He will shoot in traffic or pass the ball to 7-ft. 4-in. Arvydas Sabonis or three-point-shooter Rimas Kurtinaitis. Croatia's Drazen Petrovic, on the other hand, is a picador, launching shots like lances from all over the court. Those fans familiar with the Boston Celtics will also recognize 7-ft. 2-in. Stojko Vrankovic. In Badalona, at least, Vrankovic is an intimidating shot blocker. The Croatians are deeper than the Lithuanians, and both are more talented than the Australians. Says Croatian Danko Cvjeticanin: "We are the Dream...