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Surprisingly, though, the team managed to compensate. Paced by the leadership of point guard Tarik Campbell (7.2 points per game, 164 assists), the surprising inside play of sophomore forwards Darren Rankin (12.3 ppg) and Mike Gilmore (10.8 ppg), and the solid all-around performance of freshman phenom Kyle Snowden, the team matched and even surpassed the play of the 1992-93 squad...
...addition to Brenner,the squad was acquiring the talents of freshman Gina Majmudar, a former face in Sports Illustrated "Faces in the Crowd" due to her impressive high school record, and freshman Maryla Madura, a prep Phenom from the Tennis State, Florida...
Time was when Clemens could stop a three-game losing streak dead in its tracks. Perhaps he still can, but he can't do it alone. A young phenom, Aaron Sele, shows great promise, but he won't be enough. (Don't even think of Paul Quantrill, Danny Darwin or Viola...
...team), but sports movies are about male bonding. Beating the other guy displays primeval survival skills; getting the crap kicked out of you and not whining proves you are a man; talkin' trash makes you cool. Above the Rim, a gamy but conventional film about a high school basketball phenom detoured on his road to Georgetown by Harlem sleaze kings, is all about not letting street sarcasm get you down. A stream of abuse is the musical accompaniment to the choreography of manhood in motion. The high testosterone content may not be all bad. "I do like the boys' rituals...
DIED. BILL TRAVERS, 72; actor; in his sleep; in Dorking, England, south of * London. A leading British film actor who first won fame as the titular hammer- throwing phenom in 1955's Wee Geordie, Travers is best known in this country for Born Free (1966), in which he played George Adamson, the real-life game warden who oversaw the raising of Elsa the famous lioness...