Word: player
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With shadows deepening, we pile into tour buses and drive to the Little League field, where Bradley again breaks the rules of presidential horn blowing. Eddie Evans, a black player from his childhood team, is by his side, but Bradley doesn't talk about the times the team traveled to play-off games and he fought to get Evans served in segregated restaurants and hotels. Instead he tells about getting picked off first base during a play-off in Ottumwa, Iowa. His team was eliminated, "and ever since then," he says with a smirk, "I've dreamed of going back...
...scouts have long realized that there's one thing you can't teach even the most skilled basketball player--height. In search of verticality, the long arm of U.S. basketball recruiting has stretched out in the past two decades from Australia (the Phoenix Suns' 7-ft. 2-in. Luc Longley) to Yugoslavia (the Sacramento Kings' 7-ft. 1-in. Vlade Divac) and now, gingerly, to China. Wang Zhizhi--who shoots like a dream and dribbles pretty nimbly--has the one thing that NBA scouts know even four years of NCAA ball could never give him--7 ft. 1 in. Says...
...going to miss Anne because she was just an awesome player, but we have really strong goalies in both Cheryl and [sophomore Robyn Scatena]," said co-captain Jessie Larson...
...addition of these skillful freshmen to the Crimson's roster have allowed Harvard to breathe a sigh of relief. Last year, graduation snatched away the talents and leadership of seniors Emily Stauffer and Naomi Miller, who are both known as two of the greatest women soccer players in the history of the Ivy League and who both earned Ivy League Player of the Year honors...
...addition to welcoming nine freshmen to the squad, Wheaton and his corps of upperclassmen are also working with two new assistant coaches, Stephanie Erickson and Jape Shattuck. Erickson adds experience as a player in a nationally recognized program at Northwestern, and Shattuck, who coached the Harvard men's team from 1982 to 1986, has gained national recognition as a knowledgeable and talented coach...