Word: hoopster
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...other words, Ryan Boatright is 14 years old. Yet this summer, the 5-ft. 9-in., 138-lb. hoopster rocked college sports when he announced that he would play basketball at USC--in four years. He hadn't even picked a high school at that point. Boatright, now a freshman at East Aurora High outside Chicago, is the face of the latest alarming trend in the often shady game of college-sports recruiting: coaches offering scholarships to athletes very early in their schoolboy (and schoolgirl) careers. It requires teens to make a critical decision before they even grasp geometry...
...received wisdom (voiced in the most irresistible of the movie's nine radio-friendly songs) is to "Stick to the stuff you know... Stick to the status quo." Yet a few kids harbor subversive ambitions. The inner Troy wants to try out for the school musical, and another hoopster has a forbidden love for baking. One boy secretly plays the cello...
...American culture and youth culture are basically the same thing, and it's Wolfe who looks a little behind the times. He leans heavily on catchphrases from such movies as Swingers ("You're money, baby") to give his dialogue a contemporary vibe. There are missteps: What self- respecting black hoopster would say of a Caucasian opponent, however stalwart, "That white boy's got heart"? And are college kids really still into 90210 and Animal House? They certainly don't have PlayStation3s, as such a machine does not, at press time, exist. Sometimes Wolfe has the air of a benevolent, fastidious...
...starters, Tubridy is the only women’s hoopster in Harvard’s history to notch a triple-double. The feat came last season in a matchup with Brown. But to hear Tubridy tell the story, it seems like just another...
...LIKE MIKE You've eaten at his steakhouse. You've sprayed on his cologne. Now you can organize your data the Michael Jordan way. Palm Computing has announced a Michael Jordan edition of its m100 and m500 handheld computers, each of which is emblazoned with the legendary hoopster's name and comes with special software, including a Jordan trivia game and a basketball-scoring program...