Word: slams
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...seasons; of a head injury sustained in a fall at his Encino home; in Northridge, Calif. As the only regular voice of the Lakers since the team's move from Minneapolis, Minn., in 1960, Hearn delivered eloquent and witty play-by-play that added phrases such as "slam dunk" and "air ball" to the basketball lexicon...
DIED. CHICK HEARN, 85, colorful radio and television announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers and 1992 inductee to the Basketball Hall of Fame, who during his 42-year career coined such phrases as "slam dunk" and "air ball"; in Los Angeles. One of the few off-court icons of the NBA, Hearn called the play-by-play in an uninterrupted streak of 3,338 games from November 1965 until Dec. 16, 2001, when he had open-heart surgery. "There's never going to be another Chick Hearn," said the Lakers' legendary guard, Magic Johnson. "Some people grow bigger than their...
...where he had a chance to escape, and wedged him between two Uzbeks in the back. As the van neared the checkpoint where the ambush awaited, Niazi started to sweat. The police roadblock was hidden by a rocky hill, and when the driver took the curve, he had to slam hard on the brakes. About 70 cops were hidden behind large boulders on one side of the road and among the tombstones of a shady cemetery on the other. When a Pakistani officer approached the van and ordered the driver to get out, the Qaeda man in the front seat...
...rivalry is a concept with which many of us are all too familiar. Sibling harmony is harder to fathom and, for some in the tennis world, difficult to accept. VENUS and SERENA WILLIAMS faced each other last week at Wimbledon, the third time they have met in a Grand-Slam final this year. The formidable sister act has some rivals griping that their matches are not competitive enough. "The way they play in other matches--they really don't play that way against each other," says Jennifer Capriati. But the two did not seem to be holding back when Serena...
...opposite direction. Maybe they aren’t even real soldiers, or maybe they’re off duty—they seem very relaxed. One of them warns me to look out—I have wandered into the bike lane, and a Bianchi is about to slam into me. I jump out of the way and thank the men. There they go, the real heroes, at it again...