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...column also misses the point about the Knick's acquisition of Sprewell. If Greene wants to focus only on the player's on-court merits, that's fine. But claiming that Sprewell is too undisciplined a shooter is more or less irrelevant--John Starks, who the Knicks gave up as part of the trade, was equally brick prone...
...Snead, his mother's boyfriend, had picked B.J. up from basketball, his daily passion. Someone in another car shot at Snead. A bullet grazed Snead's forehead and broke glass that cut B.J. Police charged Russell Peeler with the attempted murder; both Snead and B.J. identified Peeler as the shooter. Peeler and Snead knew each other and were said to be fighting over money...
Unfortunately for Harvard, Clarkson, with its five six-footers on defense, proved too big and strong to surmount. Allman's shot, despite all the efforts of the shooter, deflected harmlessly off a defenseman. Only five Crimson shots in the third actually reached Grant, and the netminder turned them all aside...
Bazookas or no, the bloodshed is surprisingly mild in most hunting simulations. Animals tend to be felled quite, uh, tastefully, and the games are far less violent than the typical "first-person shooter" like Quake II. Sherry Turkle, a psychologist and professor at M.I.T., says that in a curious way, hunting simulators may ultimately benefit kids who are increasingly confronted with the blurring of reality and virtual reality. "This generation of children is developing the skills to distinguish between virtual experiences and physical ones," she says. "I see these hunting games as part of that process--and that...
Shewchuk took last year off to try out for the Canadian Olympic team, and she was one of the final cuts. The extra conditioning has made her an even better skater and shooter and Harvard fans are lucky they have three more seasons to watch her play...