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...sophomore Mike Gilmore, a generally mild-mannered person, seemed to metamorphose this weekend on the court. After engaging in some significant jawing with Yale's Dan Okwonko on Friday, he nearly came to blows with Brown's Brain Lloyd the next night...
...same change overtook--among others--junior Dan "Church Mouse" Morris, who exchanged words with Lloyd after Harvard's defeat of Brown. Asked later what he had said, Morris smiled and said, "Oh. I was just wishing him lick on the rest of the season...
...What was Lloyd's perspective on the situation? "It's part of the game," he said tersely. "[The Harvard players] were getting physical, throwing some elbows, and we had to throw them back...
...then Bear guard Brian Lloyd flew a wild elbow at Crimson sophomore Mike Gilmore after Gilmore had fouled him on a rebound attempt, and both teams rushed down to the scene, hurling a fair amount of trash talk at each other...
...Golden State native, I've grown accustomed to these barbs. Of course, Harvard students aren't the first ones to come up with such zingers. Over a century ago, Rudyard Kipling called San Francisco a "mad city" full of "perfectly insane people." Frank Lloyd Wright once hypothesized that all the loose nuts in America end up in Los Angeles because of the continental tilt. California is La-La Land, Shangri-La La, a place that twice elected a guy nicknamed "Moonbeam" governor. Yes, getting a good dig in at California is a bonafide American tradition...