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...fans used to bother me a lot. How could they have the best men's ice hockey team in the country and not go bonkers? How could the Crimson be alive in the race for its first Ivy men's basketball title ever, and not be swarmed by elated hoop junkies after home victories...
Miles Davis is onstage, but the young man in the dark blue Versace jacket couldn't care less. He is concentrating on the one thing other than a trumpet mouthpiece that is capable of riveting his attention to the point of near obsession: a basketball hoop. For some reason, there is a basket in the open backstage area of New York's Jones Beach Theater, and Wynton Marsalis is pumping balls into the net from every angle. Suddenly, he dribbles out 30 ft. from the goal and announces, "I bet $100 I can sink one from here." A stagehand snaps...
...rules played against a ticking stopwatch. A good player must have the wrists of Jack Nicklaus, the concentration of Bobby Fischer and the eye of Minnesota Fats. Ricocheting at precisely the right spot off the steel wicket is one way to get the grapefruit-size ball through the narrow hoop, anchored an unforgiving 9 in. into the ground with a clearance of one-sixteenth of an inch. A bewildering array of possible shots -- the simple roquet (a straightforward hit), the croquet (a split shot) and others, like the bisque, the take-off, pass roll, cut rush and cannon, that...
Even so, Dzerzhinsky, with its 270 pupils ages six to 16, is not the school it was a year ago. The first class of the day still opens with a student announcement: "Attention!" Andre Berndt, 16, two tiny hoop earrings glistening in each ear, bids his classmates. "Mrs. Dudelitz," he continues, "Class 10 is ready for the English lesson." Before the revolution, the students replied with "Friendship," the official greeting of the Communist youth organization. Now they simply say, "Good morning...
...basket, sweeping past a passive defender. Now Carril is in full cry. "Are you a Quaker?" He sputters. "Didja sign a nonaggression pact when you enrolled here?" The players have heard this one before, but it has the desired effect. The next time a player cuts to the hoop he is mugged by the defender. Carril smiles his tiny smile. Shortly thereafter, he dismisses class...