Word: nets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bourbeau, Harvard's poised point man, took a shot from the center of the zone, which rebounded in front of the right side of the net...
Exactly two minutes later, Bourbeau passed the puck to Pete Ciavaglia in front of the net. The puck clung to Ciavaglia's stick like Crazy Glue, but the sophomore had no problem back-handing his shot into the net to give Harvard a 3-0 lead...
...next day, Saturday, my friends came over for our traditional weekend basketball game. With the net temporarily back in place, we looked foreward to displaying some of our old skills. Unfortunately, the game did not go too well. The shooting was horrible, the play was sloppy and not all of it could be blamed on the cool weather. Once graceful pivot moves were now disturbed by grumpy beer guts. Previously intense rivals were content to catch some air away from the basket. One of my friends pulled his back going for a rebound and another twisted his ankle...
...begin with, my bedroom is now a study. With great cunning, my parents waited until my junior year before they erased all vestiges of my memory. They packed away my weight set, tore down the basketball net and worst of all, gave my NFL bedsheets to charity. My pennants lay in a forlorn pile at the bottom of my closet. In their place, my father's diplomas hange with mocking pride. His desk rests serenely where I used to shoot Nerf hoops. My bed, remade and reeducated, is now his couch. It's not that I wanted a mausoleum...
Tiernan had a dinner date with the entire Harvard squad. She supplied the net, the Crimson brought a few thousand pucks...