Word: hoops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Provided images of a strange pair of Hula Hoop-like rings around a distant exploded star -- a previously unknown phenomenon...
...there is little help in sight for those who want to shoot a little hoop. Wentzell, who coordinates the MAC's gym schedule, says: "We could use three to six more basketball courts...
Wentzell says he blocks out many court hours for club events--including today's charity event and last Sunday's Minority Students Alliance Hoop-a-thon. But "I have to say no to two or three groups for each one I can say yes to," he says...
...there are always athletes eager for this indentured servitude. In the poignant three-hour documentary called Hoop Dreams (due out in the fall), about two teenage basketball prospects from Chicago, the sport's glamour is a flicker of light at the end of a long tunnel of family troubles, daunting schoolwork, perilous street life and their knowledge that stardom is a buyer's market. But they persevere because the dream is all they have...
...dozens of players on nearly every team, from the Peewee League to the pros, and dozens of teams in every sport. How many of us make those teams, or become star players, or get to play for a championship, or cinch the game with a last-second score? Hoop Dreams notes that of the 50,000 or so gifted kids playing high school basketball each year, 14,000 play in college, and only 25 reach the NBA. Even a star jock -- Charles Barkley, Ernie Banks, O.J. Simpson -- may never be "a champion...