Word: hoop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Feaster came down the floor and bullied her way to the hoop for the bucket and a foul. She calmly hit the free throw--she was 13-of-14 from the charity stripe in the game--and Harvard led by one with 2:45 to play...
Harvard had several chances to win or tie thegame in the waning moments. Still trailing by two,Janowski was fouled under the hoop but missed bothfree throws...
...errant lob pass sailed out of bounds foran apparent Harvard turnover, Feaster leapt afterit and, while in mid-air, rifled a pass fromunderneath her own hoop to co-captain Megan Basilat the three-point...
...eighth-graders who were trying out for the school's team. He bounced the ball a time or two, looking about as casual as Gore ever looks in public, then turned to the basket and, with exaggerated ease, lofted the ball into the air. It swished through the hoop perfectly, catching nothing but net, and the kids shrieked in delight; Gore got the ball back and spun it smartly on his index finger. As he left the court, he turned to the children and said, "Those who don't make the team, keep trying. Repetition--practice...
...preparation for a rote maneuver that is designed to look bold and spontaneous--has worked well for Gore over the years. As a Congressman in the early 1980s, he would lie flat on his back late at night in an empty House gymnasium and hurl the ball at the hoop again and again; when at last he could make the trick shot, he unveiled it in a pickup game with other lawmakers. Representative Gore studied the arms race with the same intensity, working 10 hours a week for a year before championing a simple solution to the Soviet first-strike...