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After the Clemente clutch shot put the Crimson ahead, Lehigh tried desperately to set up a quality look at the hoop, but the ball was deflected out of play twice. With six seconds remaining, the inbounds play was tipped by the Harvard defense and the last pair of shots by Brett Eppehimer and Damien McGill fell harmlessly short without ever hitting the iron...
...never even seen field hockey before. I didn't know if you shot it through a hoop or kicked it like a football," Mayer says of her first time playing goalie at age 14, a time when the now 6-foot 1-inch ponytailed defensive player saw herself as "awkward" and "just really lumbersome and slothlike...
...junior year in high school, the girls in the Homecoming Court stopped wearing the hoop skirts reminiscent of the Old South because the principal said it was too expensive to rent and dry-clean the clothes. Though some might say that wearing such outfits was a silly custom, I think it is sad that a tradition so evocative of the region's heritage was stopped for such a pragmatic reason...
This heads-up approach got its impetus early in his hoop career when he witnessed the fleecing of fellow Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who lost millions to unscrupulous financial advisers in the 1980s. Johnson dumped his own advisers and started demanding monthly statements from his new ones. He realized that Magic Johnson was a brand name as well as his own, and that he wasn't benefiting from it. So he became the first active N.B.A. player to be a league licensee. "I just kept seeing all these people wearing my T shirts, and I was not getting a dime...
DIED. ROGER BROWN, 54, hoop star dubbed Man of a Thousand Moves who helped lead the Indiana Pacers to three American Basketball Association championships after he was barred from the N.B.A. for associating with a gambler; of liver cancer; in Indianapolis, Indiana...