Word: hoops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...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...
...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...
...starts like this. A little girl in Southwick, Massachusetts, watches her older brother play basketball on the hoop in the driveway. So she plays too. "I just wanted to do what he did," she says now. Soon she is not so little. She grows to 6 ft. 4 in. and becomes the star forward/center of the Connecticut Huskies basketball team. Then she learns her mother has breast cancer. "I began to focus on what I did on the court, because I could control what I did on the court," she says. "I couldn't control what was happening with...
...octane drinks and high-calorie desserts, diners can ogle costumes actually inhabited by movie icons (Tom Hanks' Forrest Gump fatigues, Sylvester Stallone's Rocky boxing trunks), guitars stroked by rock stars, gear made magical by sports greats (Ken Griffey Jr.'s Louisville Slugger; Shaquille O'Neal's minivan-size hoop shoes); or a wall of Motown gold records...