Word: hoopster
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NAME: "Sir" Charles Barkley OCCUPATION: Trash-talking hoopster BEST PUNCH: Said he was "disappointed greatly" that teammate Pippen wants to leave Houston after one season, particularly since "the Rockets went out of their way to get Scottie...
...English with a German accent. "He was sure I was there for his person, not his history or status." And so both found something the other needed when they married in 1974: the divorce got a hunky, younger second husband who loved to listen to her literary lectures; the hoopster got a wife whose erudition and command of five languages nurtured a side of him the tabs and fans overlooked...
...workers, but perhaps didn't realize they include people working in TV. The Utah Jazz basketballer, an outspoken advocate for NBA players locked out by team owners, appeared on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee last week, passing picketing ABC workers to do so. Malone's agent said the hoopster was ignorant of the strike and was asleep when his driver wheeled through the picket line. A spokesman for the striking ABC employees said the union accepts the highly plausible explanation. Later, Malone visited Central Park to film a video for a virtual fishing game, a sport that could earn...
...Harvard men's basketball team's point guard did was post a pair of double-doubles, break his career high in assists twice and become the first Crimson hoopster in history to tally 1,000 career points and 400 assists...
...didn't hurt either that Tomes, only an average hoopster, managed to impress the gangsters on the basketball court. "Once, I shot the ball, and it was clearly going left of the basket, but curved and went straight through the net," he says. "God was definitely helping...