Word: sock
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Indeed, the game is almost as fast paced, intense and entertaining as men's hoops. You want a great spin move? Try Michelle Marciniak, the tiny guard for Tennessee who carries a Michael Jordan picture in her sock and goes by the nickname--no kidding--Spinderella. Want to see a dunk? Earlier this season, Smith became the first woman in 14 years to throw one down during a game...
...said hello, but he didn't respond. He placed his laundry on the other side of the room, put some quarters and detergent in a washer, and waited until water filled the washer to the top. Then he went all the way back to his basket, took one sock, walked all the way back to the washer, tossed the sock basketball-style into the filled washer, and vigorously pushed it down into the water. He did the same thing again and again with all his clothes one by one until his basket was empty. Then he gave me this strange...
...didn't surprise, but the forum sure did. Bob Dole has wanted to be President almost forever--this will be his third try--and an announcement was expected soon. But not last Friday night, and certainly not on David Letterman's Late Show. But why not? Richard Nixon said ``Sock it to me'' on Laugh-In in 1968, and later appraised his cameo as ``a stroke that helped people see I wasn't just that Tricky Dick, meanspirited son-of-a-bitch.'' So Dole took a page from the Nixon playbook, and for the same reason. If he feared that...
...baseball player, Moe Berg belonged in the sock drawer of fame. He began his professional career in 1923 as the third baseman for the Brooklyn Robins and ended it 17 years later as the third-string catcher for the Boston Red Sox. He spent most of his playing days schmoozing and reading in dugouts and bullpens. His lifetime batting average was .243, he had only six home runs, and he was error-prone. If Berg ever stole a base, his latest biography, The Catcher Was a Spy (Pantheon; 453 pages; $24), does not mention...
...chorus of network anchors, reporters and experts, and they are intent for reasons of the Constitution and drama on presuming his innocence. Anchors are thrown together with people they are not used to working with -- at times it looks as though Peter Jennings would like to stuff a sock in the mouth of Leslie Abramson, who defended one of the Menendez brothers. The anchors all seem to resent being pressed into service during soap-opera time...