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Paced by guard Ed Petersen's league-leading 21.8 points per game, the Bulldogs are on a tear. Stuart Davies and Casey Cammann are cleaning house under the hoop with 7.9 and 7.1 rebounds per game respectively (second and third in the league...

Author: By R.j. Peters, | Title: Elis, Tigers: Bound For Glory? | 12/14/1991 | See Source »

...Terriers will be looking to two new big men--both coming from successful junior college hoop programs--off the bench. Six-foot-eight-inch Tim Westerfield and 6'7" Jeff Storm will put added pressure on the Crimson defense down...

Author: By R.j. Peters, | Title: M. Cagers Go Across the River in Search of First Win | 11/26/1991 | See Source »

Rubber Soul. Detroit's 80-ft. tire began life as a Ferris wheel and was nearly removed in the mid-1980s. But civic pride has preserved Uniroyal's humongous hoop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Icons | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

Loesser's catchy titles and skewed wit helped lodge many a song in the musical muscle memory of anyone who loves vintage pop: Heart and Soul and Two Sleepy People (music by Hoagy Carmichael), I Don't Want to Walk Without You (Jule Styne), Jingle Jangle Jingle (Joseph Lilley), Hoop-Dee-Doo (Milton DeLugg). And when Loesser began marrying his own music to his words, he hatched even more smashes: What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? On a Slow Boat to China and a few instant standards, including No Two People and Wonderful Copenhagen, for the 1952 movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Snappy Fella | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

...despite shooting for half the game at a basket that was 3-in. short of the 10-ft. regulation height. Beth Wambach and Erin Maher noticed that the basket was short when they went out for shooting practice early Saturday, but the problem was never rectified. But the faulty hoop could hold back Harvard, which shot 50 percent from the field for the game and connected on 8-of-18 from three-point range...

Author: By Peter I. Rosenthal, | Title: W. Cagers Roll On | 2/19/1991 | See Source »

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