Word: knee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Konik returned to the Crimson this year after taking last season off to nurse a knee injury he suffered during the 1992-93 campaign...
...offense will dribble a couple off its knee. Its shooting percentage will go south. Its defense will get scared. Its opponent will run away with the game. And everyone else in the wilderness that is a college basketball game--coaches, referees, cheerleaders, fans and journalists--will wonder just what the hell happened...
...Still" because a major knee injury sidelined Konik for the majority of his sophomore season, as he took last year off as a medical red-shirt. Konik has always flashed out-bursts of consummate talent, but the road to psychic recovery can be tougher than the physical battle he seems to have already won; night to night, he creeps further back into the mental shell of his former hockey-playing self...
...disoriented that a team doctor forced him to spend the rest of the game on the bench. Hours later Moore was still complaining of nausea and a severe headache. Though he had no sprains or broken bones, the problem was potentially more devastating than a cracked rib or battered knee: he had suffered a concussion -- an invisible, sometimes short-lived but often dangerous injury to the brain...
With so much organic waste, there must be a pony somewhere, and Stuart Stevens' new novel may be it. Scorched Earth (Atlantic; 276 pages; $21) is a funny, eye-rolling, knee-walking story of an incestuous Senate campaign in one of those nameless Southern states -- somewhere between South Carolina and Georgia, perhaps -- that turn up in political novels. Incest is not a metaphor here. When political consultant Matt Bonney engineers the testimony of three black drag queens who say they have had sex with Congressman Luke Bonney, who is the opponent of Matt's candidate and also happens...