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...court. It’s passed around the perimeter until the ball ends up in the reliable hands of Wally Szczerbiak. The forward rises up and fires a high, arching three-pointer. The ball floats in the air, spinning like a rubber globe as it falls towards the hoop, kisses the back rim, and swishes gently through. Pandemonium. Unfortunately, although Harvard recruited Szczerbiak, the former NBA draft pick and Western Conference All-Star also considered attending Miami University (Ohio). He chose Ohio...
...governor's house is actually somewhat modest: a two-story wood shingled building with a couple hundred meters of road leading up to it. There are a few aging trucks parked on the grass alongside the road, alongside a couple trailers and a shack. There's a portable basketball hoop in the driveway. You can tell it's the governor's home because they've tacked a moose antler with PALIN painted on it to a tree out front...
Obama's gambles illustrate a core fact about the man: his genuine self-confidence. He clearly believes that, where he has a chance to shape an outcome, things are going to be fine. The ball will drop through the hoop instead of clanging off the rim. It's an idea shared by many talented and driven people, and it holds true all the way up to the moment when they finally meet failure...
...parts. Synchronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastics involve such copious amounts of cosmetics that they make a Texas beauty pageant look sedate. Yes, thighs strain with effort, but I'm distracted by the twirling toes and the bleached teeth framed by rictus smiles. And the accoutrements of rhythmic gymnastics - the hoop, the swirling ribbon - divert from the balletic grace of the athletes...
...semifinals in Athens, and meet them at the same stage this Friday) at least part of a road map for how to compete against the "Redeem Team." On offense, "we didn't try to beat them off the dribble," said point guard Mills. They passed and cut to the hoop with precision and shot well from behind the three point arc. Nor did they ever allow the U.S. to turn it into a track meet. Fast break points were almost evenly distributed, the U.S. scoring 14 off the break to Australia's ten. (Against Spain last week, that figure...