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...Schmidt is a senior adviser to McCain. So he's working against his understudy Kevin (Maddog) Madden, 34, who moved to Boston this week to be Romney's press secretary. Madden, whose slick GQ looks conceal an NBA metabolism, handled Bush-Cheney press for the swing states of Pennsylvania and Ohio. "There's a civil-war aspect to it," he says of the new teams. "In 2004 and all the way through the 2006 cycle, these were your brothers and sisters. But you have to remember that your job is to serve the candidates and their ideas...
DIED. Paul Arizin, 78, NBA Hall of Famer and a pioneer of the jump shot; in Springfield, Pa. The Villanova All-American developed the now ubiquitous shot in high school, where games were often played on slippery dance floors. "When I tried to hook, my foot would go out from under me, so I jumped," he once said. "I was always a good jumper...
THIS REGIONAL FINAL OF THE NCAA men's basketball tournament looked like a classic mismatch. The University of Connecticut featured four future NBA first-round draft picks. And George Mason--a suburban commuter school in Fairfax, Va.--looked like nothing much until its torrid shooting and scrappy defense gave it an 86-84 overtime upset of the Huskies, sending a school from a nonmajor conference to the Final Four for the first time in 27 years...
REVERSE LAYUPS WHILE WEDGED between defenders. Fadeaway jumpers in traffic. Three-pointers shot from Catalina. Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant hit them all one Hollywood night in January, scoring 81 points, the second highest total in NBA history (Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 in 1962), in the Lakers' 122-104 win over the Toronto Raptors. In the second half alone, Bryant outscored the entire Toronto team...
Some players catch fire, but it’s often fleeting. Some players, like Seymore, simply give new meaning to the popular NBA Showtime phrase, "he’s on fire...