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...football. He is encouraged, as a matter of fact, because the only Blacks he sees on TV are slam-dunking or running for touchdowns. To play football, all that is needed is a field (any street will due) and a football. To play basketball, only a ball and a hoop are needed...
Recently he has been playing with Nintendo, the video game that is the Hula-Hoop of the 1980s. Nintendo draws millions of children into the high- tech, button-pressing world that may be their workaday future. Sometimes John David plays alone, but when his five-year-old brother Christopher is home, the two of them compete against each other. The boys sit together in an armchair pushed close to the television set, their fingers moving expertly across the buttons on a palm-size control panel. They are mesmerized...
Going to the hoop-la. Football metaphors were in the ascendant during the convention (Dukakis: "Every team has to have a quarterback. That's the nominee"), but rangy basketball players posted up and down the convention floor. Four former professional B-ball players were delegates. Maryland Congressman Tom McMillen (6 ft. 11 in.) played for the Washington Bullets. Walt Bellamy (6 ft. 11 in.), a Jackson delegate from Georgia, played center for the Atlanta Hawks, among others. Arizona Congressman Morris Udall (6 ft. 5 in.) played one year for the Denver Nuggets. New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley...
Plansky stood at the foul line Sunday with all of America's sporting public watching. An athlete shooting for a destination--the hoop--and a destiny--the NCAA's "Sweet...
...window, has to be matched to a targeting figure projected on the screen's surface, then moved, by minute adjustments in the plane's trajectory, to a bull's-eye pilots call the death dot. In effect, Anderson hopes to slam-dunk a basketball while racing by the hoop at 600 m.p.h...