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With 8:41 left in the half, Harvard did tie the game at 20, but then Penn went on a roll again. Kreitz hit three pointers on three consecutive Penn possessions--the last two rolling in and out and in, as if the Palestra hoop was mocking its Northern visitors...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: M. Cagers Forced to Eat Quaker Oats | 2/8/1997 | See Source »

...hard to hold Baesler responsible for Clinton's hits on the tobacco industry: a tobacco farmer, Baesler has chastised the President for threatening the fragile, tobacco-dependent economy of the state. He is also a born-and-bred Lexington boy who was captain of his college basketball team under hoop legend Adolf Rupp, and went on to become a three-time mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: KENTUCKY | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...latest issue...and I'm pretty certain that if I did, I'd want to assail the contributors myself, so I'm not too eager to do so. But what I would like is some sort of recognition that I haven't the slightest business in this whole hoop-la, maybe an apology from the Crimson and the Peninsula, and then to fade merrily back into my blissfully uninvolved life. --Christine Folch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peninsula Masthead Wrongly Claims Junior as Member | 10/17/1996 | See Source »

...Microsoft advancemen first visited the little library in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. They came down Flatbush Avenue, past the tropical-colored stalls of mangoes and plantains, past the discount-clothing stores, past the men slapping down dominoes on chipped stoops. They did not dally at the basketball hoop lashed to a tree in front of the library. Unlike some of the kids who played there every day, the Microsoft guys actually went up the steps and inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEB GROWS IN BROOKLYN | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

...anyone be worth that much money to put a ball through a hoop? The answer is yes, at least the way economists keep score. It's a simple case of supply and demand. The inventory of 7-ft. 1-in., 300-lb. human rockslides like Shaq is not deep; you will not find one at Wal-Mart. That's why the Houston Rockets' pivotman, Hakeem Olajuwon, got a $55 million, five-year contract extension and another African-born center, Dikembe Mutombo, signed with the Atlanta Hawks for a five-year, $50 million deal. The Miami Heat is on the verge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STARS' SALARIES: SWISH! | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

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