Word: magics
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...person who can make things happen is the one who brings the ball up the court. Against the Celtics, Kidd averaged a triple double (double figures in points, rebounds and assists); the only other players ever to pull that off in a conference finals were Wilt Chamberlain (1967) and Magic Johnson...
...third triple double of the series, becoming the first to do that in 35 years, which is especially impressive when you consider that his individual skills aren't that hot. He isn't a great shooter, yet he makes big shots and relishes big games, just like his hero Magic. Nor is he anything resembling a leaper. His great rebounding is owing to his ability to figure out where the ball is going...
Harvard could not fully capitalize on the miracle, splitting its final Ivy weekend with Dartmouth and forcing a one-game showdown with Brown for the Rolfe title. But the do-or-die scenario only meant that Crockett would get to work even more magic...
...while it's tempting to think that ghrelin is a magic bullet that could be used to keep us all at a perfect weight, doctors think that's highly unlikely. Similar hopes were raised a few years ago for leptin, a hormone that acts as an appetite suppressant. After years of trying, nobody has found a way to make it into a useful medication, largely because patients quickly develop a leptin tolerance...
...favorite of his essays was about Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak. Streaks in sports, Gould noted, should command our appreciation not because a player gets a hot hand or a magic rhythm--these are cognitive illusions--but because his level of skill increases the odds of a lucky run. All long-lived phenomena are "games of a gambler playing with a limited stake against a house with infinite resources... DiMaggio activated the greatest and most unattainable dream of all humanity, the hope and chimera of all sages and shamans: he cheated death, at least for a while." This...