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...years later, the gardens in Green-wich Village are in bloom again--NYU hoop is back. Monday night at Briggs Cage, the Violets came back to Harvard for the first time in more than 40 years, with--drum roll, please--one Mike Muzio driving...
Having waited 12 long years to coach his first collegiate basketball game. Muzio brought to town a team light years away from the one he was supposed to lead in 12 years ago. Things have changed a lot since that hey-day of NYU hoop. The Violets no longer have a top-notch, Division I. nationally ranked club. And they certainly no longer have a club that can compete with Harvard...
...Hall" where Woody Allen sneaks away from the New York literary-scene bash to watch the Knick game? His soon-to-be-ex-wife discovers him watching TV and demands to know what's so fascinating about "a bunch of pituitary cases trying to stuff a ball through a hoop...
There are very few Harvard basketball players who could possibly be mistaken for pituitary cases, but the underlying question remains: What's so fascinating about a bunch of bowlegged guys trying to stuff a ball through a hoop...
...Ambassadors: he got through nine of them in his six years. Also five English and three Russian heads of mission. Arjumand and Iskander would place bets on how long each new arrival would survive; then, happy as a boy with a new stick and hoop, he would set about giving them hell. He made them wait weeks for audiences ... He invited them to banquets at which the Russian Ambassador was served bird's-nest soup and Peking duck, while the Americans got borsch and blinis. He refused to flirt with their wives. With the British Ambassador he would pretend...