Word: nykesha
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Dates: during 1998-1998
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...weeks ago, University of Connecticut Women's Basketball Coach Gino Auriemma arranged to give his injured star player Nykesha Sales the chance to break the UConn scoring record. He and Villanova Coach Harry Perretta created a two-play game-within-the-game in which Sales was allowed an uncontested basket to let her break the record, and Villanova was allowed a reciprocal freebie. (In an ironic twist, ESPN Magazine reported yesterday that a mistake in the record-keeping of an earlier game led to an incorrect point total for Sales, and she has not technically broken the record...
...cases of Nykesha Sales, Mo Vaughn and Bill Clinton of course merit different interpretations of "no harm, no foul." In the instance of Sales' new record, her coach may have been right that no harm was done and a greater good accomplished. The jury (figuratively for Vaughn and literally for the President) is still out on the other two. I don't know what the antithetical proverb to "no harm, no foul" is, or even whether one exists. In these cases, maybe the closest we can come is "I don't know whether to laugh or cry at once...
...when two teams collaborated in the season's final game to let hobbled University of Connecticut star Nykesha Sales break the No. 2-ranked school's scoring record, columnists and talk-show callers went nuts. They railed that it was an insult to the integrity of sports--as bad, some argued, as point shaving. But this sort of assist to a deserving player is not unprecedented: Mickey Mantle was served a big fat pitch to pass Jimmie Foxx's career home-run mark. And why are all these people suddenly taking such an interest in a women's college scoring...
...turn to the University of Connecticut (UCONN). UCONN's women's basketball team is ranked number three in the country, led by the outstanding Nykesha Sales. Led, that is, until she suffered a season-ending Achilles' tendon injury in a game on Saturday, February 21. And in a cruel twist of fate, Sales, a senior, suffered the injury needing only one more field goal to become UCONN's all-time leading scorer...