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...starts like this. A little girl in Southwick, Massachusetts, watches her older brother play basketball on the hoop in the driveway. So she plays too. "I just wanted to do what he did," she says now. Soon she is not so little. She grows to 6 ft. 4 in. and becomes the star forward/center of the Connecticut Huskies basketball team. Then she learns her mother has breast cancer. "I began to focus on what I did on the court, because I could control what I did on the court," she says. "I couldn't control what was happening with...
...octane drinks and high-calorie desserts, diners can ogle costumes actually inhabited by movie icons (Tom Hanks' Forrest Gump fatigues, Sylvester Stallone's Rocky boxing trunks), guitars stroked by rock stars, gear made magical by sports greats (Ken Griffey Jr.'s Louisville Slugger; Shaquille O'Neal's minivan-size hoop shoes); or a wall of Motown gold records...
...When we were on transition, there was really no one in the crease," Marvin said. "[Hofstra's] second slide wasn't there, and it was just like 'let's go to the hoop...
...hoop they did, as the Crimson had a few things to clear up with the NCAA committee--which gave Harvard an arguably undeserved low-seed in the 12-team tournament--before the first period was over...
...they don't share their paycheck with a wife and kids: Italian shoes, fly-fishing vacations, babes galore. The masculine ideal of popular culture has long since ceased to be the man in the gray-flannel suit, trudging dutifully between office and home. It has become the millionaire hoop star with a stable of interchangeable gal pals, or the yuppie bachelor investing in his home wine cellar...