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...there are always athletes eager for this indentured servitude. In the poignant three-hour documentary called Hoop Dreams (due out in the fall), about two teenage basketball prospects from Chicago, the sport's glamour is a flicker of light at the end of a long tunnel of family troubles, daunting schoolwork, perilous street life and their knowledge that stardom is a buyer's market. But they persevere because the dream is all they have...
...dozens of players on nearly every team, from the Peewee League to the pros, and dozens of teams in every sport. How many of us make those teams, or become star players, or get to play for a championship, or cinch the game with a last-second score? Hoop Dreams notes that of the 50,000 or so gifted kids playing high school basketball each year, 14,000 play in college, and only 25 reach the NBA. Even a star jock -- Charles Barkley, Ernie Banks, O.J. Simpson -- may never be "a champion...
...that I was hanging out with Mike D. They're a bunch of East Coast Jewish boys who have turned their lives into a weird fantasy, and they know it. They date movie stars. They have their own recording studio in California, with a skating ramp and a basketball hoop. They just started their won record label. They have a fanzine, except that since they're big stars, it looks a real magazine. When they get interviewed they point out all of these things, and say "Isn't this crazy?" When, on their last LP Check Your Head, Mike...
...indeed, this shadow is, Perhaps Rider, or Green Bay-Wis. Might these squads shock the cynics? Perhaps they will defy physics? Might their tries fall in the netted hoop? Might they make Cal feel like poop...
...clock wound down, the game was still tied, and as Whittenburg heaved his "shot" up toward the hoop, Lorenzo Charles moved into position for the putback...