Word: hoopes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, athletes provide their own support groups. According to Gielen, upperclassmen on the basketball team regularly offer advice and encouragment to the younger players. And Beth Chandler '89, co-captain of the women's hoop squad, says several of the science concentrators on the team get together twice a week to study...
...minuscule 4% body fat vs. 7% for most well-conditioned athletes and 15% for an average male in the U.S.) soars up, around and over the mere mortals he opposes. Most guards, being "smaller" men, prefer the quiet of the perimeter to the violent collisions of leviathans under the hoop. But Jordan is most dangerous around the basket, with his arsenal of double-clutch lay-ups and hyperspace dunks over men very nearly a foot taller. Through it all, Jordan's tongue dangles from his mouth, his universally recognized trademark and a testament to his intense concentration...
After going three years without consistent offensive production in the low post, the Crimson appears to have found two players--junior center Malcolm Hollensteiner and freshman power forward Ron Mitchell--who are able to put the ball in the hoop...
Feinstein's newest entry, A Season Inside, once again deals with the theme he knows so well: college basketball. Feinstein is a hoop addict, a writer who could spend the rest of his life locked up in UCLA's Pauley Pavillion watching Kansas' Danny Manning posting up against North Carolina's J.R. Reid, or Arizona's Steve Kerr swishing three-pointers from outside...
Since there was no music, we couldn't escape the drunken laughter of the women in large hoop earrings and permed hair sitting a few tables over...