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Moeller's friends and acquaintances in Spencerville cannot imagine that the local farm boy and self-made man could have plotted such a scheme. "He doesn't do things that way," says Police Chief David Colgan. "He's a square shooter, a good, levelheaded businessman...
Griffin received honorable mention for his direction of the Harvard attack in the second half of the season. He averaged 4.3 assists per game, good for fourth in the Ivies. Carey also had a strong second half as he surged to finish as the Crimson's most accurate shooter from the field...
Center Wes Unseld, the shortest and burliest in the league, limps along on bad knees; yet he uses his bulk efficiently and leads the league in rebounds. Forward Mike Riordan is still noted for defensive tactics that befit a bouncer, but he has also developed into a competent shooter. Guard Kevin Porter, at 5 ft. 11 in. a Lilliputian by pro basketball standards, owns the league lead in personal fouls, but is also one of the liveliest players on any court...
Alone or in clusters, attackers bear down on him at breakneck speed, their razor-sharp blades ripping into the white ice. From any angle, in the open or from behind a screen of players, a shooter fires and the rock-hard puck hums toward the goalie at more than 100 m.p.h. He has less than a second to react. If he fails, there is no reprieve: the goalie is the last line of defense, the difference between winning and losing...
...knocks his stick on his skates, moves a few feet up ice to the edge of the "goal crease," reaches back to tap the top of his stick and the end of his glove against the steel goalposts to get his bearings, drops to a crouch, and challenges the shooter to make the first move. He also flips to the right page in his mental book on players and recalls data on their habitual skating patterns. In the second or two that all this is going on, Parent begins to adjust his position to cut down the angle attackers have...