Word: hoope
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sanders found out about Cambridge basketball apathy. An estimated 1100 fans gave Satch about 20 seconds of half-hearted welcoming applause that got drowned out by the announcer's microphone. In the Crimson's season opener two weeks ago at UMass, Sanders got two standing ovations from over 4000 hoop followers. I guess he could find some solace in the pre-game dinner President Bok held in honor of the new coaching staff and their families...
...typical Harvard jock "what's been going on that's big in sports a Harvard this Spring" and the average response will be something like "Satch Sanders is the hew hoop coach, Don Gambril has deserted to Alabama, Princeton broke the varsity lightweight crew's winning streak, and the varsity heavyweights lost the Sprints again this year to Northeastern...
...Davis Jr. But it wasn't all fisticuffs and show biz. Ali was also promoting his new toy Oop-fli (a ring spun off two sticks and caught by an opponent's two sticks), which he hopes will earn him a tidy bundle. Another Frisbee or Hula-Hoop it isn't, but then Muhammad Ali is not the champion any longer, either...
Another surprise for Wolfe was the lack of enthusiasm at Harvard for basketball. Basketball is to Brooklyn what hockey is to Boston, and Wolfe was surprised at the small and hoop-ignorant audience which came to the games. "People at the games didn't recognize a good play when they saw one," Wolfe said. "It just hasn't caught fire here...
...cocky, cigar-chomping Dan Steiner predicted yesterday that Box Jox would annihilate the Crimson in today's grudge hoop contest...