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Losing Feaster would have been tough in any setting for the Crimson, which has come to rely on her ability to clear people out underneath the hoop and her 16.5 points per game. Losing her was particularly tough, however, for two very specific reasons: Feaster had already scored a career-high 27 points, and Penn had cut Harvard's 18-point second half lead to a scant 10-point advantage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winning As a Team | 2/21/1995 | See Source »

...Broadway" and "The Shawshank Redemption" -- had seven nominations apiece. The other best picture nominees were "Pulp Fiction," "The Shawshank Redemption," "The Quiz Show" and "Four Weddings and a Funeral." TIME Los Angeles correspondent Jeffrey Ressner says the day's biggest surprise was the Academy's passing over the acclaimed "Hoop Dreams" for best documentary feature, a move that "had most people's jaws dropping" and cemented a trend in which prominent commercial documentaries have been overlooked. Also unexpected, Ressner says, were the best picture nod for "Shawshank," a "dank prison film with a unwieldy title," and Woody Allen's best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OSCAR GETS GUMPED | 2/14/1995 | See Source »

...quite right. The really slick American city game is played by college and high school coaches, sports agents, shoe manufacturers, sportswriters and TV producers. It involves conning kids--mostly poor black kids--into believing that they can grow up to play professional basketball. The fine documentary film Hoop Dreams shows how the game is played with high school basketballers in Chicago, and now Darcy Frey's thoughtful, sharply observed book, The Last Shot (Houghton Mifflin; 230 pages), spells out its consequences for students at Abraham Lincoln High School in the bleak Coney Island section of Brooklyn, New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CYCLONE | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

With the game knotted at 56 and a scant 2.2 seconds left on the clock, Fischer put back his own miss for the winning hoop and the Crimson's sixth win in the last eight years at Columbia...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: MEN'S BASKETBALL TAKES A BITE OUT OF THE BIG APPLE | 2/4/1995 | See Source »

Harvard hopes to exploit Columbia inside and prevent it from driving to the hoop. The Lions are dead last in the Ivies in field goal percentage (.414), while they have allowed the second highest field goal percentage (.464). Harvard, however, has had the most porous defense so far in the Ivy season, allowing foes to shoot at a blistering .484 pace...

Author: By Mayer Bick, | Title: Harvard Basketball Hopes to Feed off Lions Tonight | 2/3/1995 | See Source »

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