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...that is how Minnesota got a 6 ft. 4 in., 250-lb. Governor named Jesse ("The Body") Ventura, and all week Minnesotans were feeling sort of giddy about it, like Lutherans who've drunk a little more than we meant to and now here we are singing Alley Oop and dancing on the sofa. Who woulda thunk we could get this crazy...
...Crimson jumped in front again on a Weaver three-pointer, but Lonergan matched him and wiped out that lead. The Dartmouth guard ended two more Harvard advantages, one of an alley-oop and one on two free throws with 3:43 to play in the first half, which tied the score at 26. Harvard would not regain the lead...
Then it was senior guard James White (14 points) with a three-pointer and a pass to senior center Paul Kubiak (career-high six points) for a crashing alley-oop dunk...
...best player on the court, Allen, spent most of the night setting up his teammates. When Harvard got within nine toward the end of the first half, though, Allen sighed and promptly slammed in an alley-oop pass from Maloney...
...head awkwardly forward because his spine prevented him from standing upright. In his scientific papers, Boule described the "brutish appearance of this muscular and clumsy body." This almost simian image persisted largely unchallenged for decades. Indeed, vestiges of it remain today in such manifestations as textbook illustrations, the Alley Oop cartoon strip, and in the pejorative use of "Neanderthal...