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Though Moore suffered in playing time, she was still a member of an elite team that dominated despite youth during her freshman season. During Moore’s freshman and sophomore seasons, Louisiana Tech was underrated during preseason and advanced to the fourth round of NCAAs both years. The Lady Techsters fell to Penn State in the Midwest regional final in 2000 and to UConn in 2001. All the while, Moore got into 24 games, while averaging 1.2 points per game...
Last May Houston--a city with 104,000 Asian residents--was awarded the first pick in the draft, and Chinese officials decided it was time to negotiate Yao's release. (The NBA may schedule Rockets preseason games in Beijing and Shanghai next year; the Rockets paid Yao's Chinese professional team a $350,000 transfer fee, and Yao will give at least 50% of his salary to various Chinese sporting bodies while continuing to play for the Chinese national team in international competitions like the Olympics.) When Rockets general manager Carroll Dawson finally met the future of his franchise...
...preseason, Harvard coach Satinder Bajwa commented on Hall’s improved quickness...
...Byrne by an exceptional teammate: Ma Jian, the 2-meter power forward who, a decade ago, became the first mainland Chinese to play basketball at a major U.S. college, Utah. Like McClintock, Ma?whose given name, Jian, means Healthy?had a brief taste of the NBA: a handful of preseason games for the Los Angeles Clippers in 1995. He was the last cut, and he cried like an orphaned child...
...Crimson, who traveled to Florida six days ahead of time to begin training, entered play as the preseason...