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...those of us from inside the Loop were getting misty-eyed, remembering the days when Chris Webber and other up-and-coming players came to Washington to play with Juwan Howard. We watched controversy swirl as despite the team's allegedly growing depth, they sank lower and lower in hoop respectability...
...film program. "I was working on a crew carrying lighting equipment," she says, "when it clicked how happy I was being on a set." Prince-Bythewood, who is half black, got help from Bill Cosby, the NAACP and Sundance's Robert Redford. Love and Basketball, a $15 million hoop-dreams drama with Omar Epps and Alfre Woodard, was produced by Spike Lee's company (her husband, Reggie Rock Bythewood, wrote Get on the Bus for Lee). Now, at 30, she plans a slave epic, but--here's a Hollywood novelty--from a black perspective. "If I'm not telling these...
After the Crimson called a timeout, Prasse-Freeman found Long on the right baseline about 10 feet from the basket. Long turned and had an open look at the hoop, but his shot was just long, rimming in and out and falling to the floor as time expired...
...speech--an act of enormous extroversion that required him to brag about his athleticism, discipline and small-town purity--he is visibly withdrawing, pulling back into himself. Folded into a chair on the stage in the packed and jubilant Crystal City High School gym, the scene of his earliest hoop glory, he's listening to old friends extol his essential goodness, but he's looking bored and distracted one minute, uncomfortable the next: it's hard for him to cede control of his own story. A black Little League teammate reminisces about the 11-year-old Bradley threatening to call...
...zipping and the notebooks closing as you go to shop another article, but hear me out. At first glance, pre-registration seems the enemy of student choice, requiring some sense of preparedness unlikely to be held in advance. Yet in the end, for us it will be just another hoop to jump through like the plans of study many concentrators fill out and then dutifully ignore year to year. For the Faculty, it will be an important step toward more responsible course organization...