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James Naismith invented basketball in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1891. The way the Springfield College women's basketball team played last night in the IAB, pasting Harvard 69-55, they looked as if they'd been right out there practicing with Jamie since that first historic game played between two peach baskets...
...Crimson suffered due to the sicknesses of Wendy Cole and Caryn Curry, who both played, and the absences of starting center Sue Aboucher, home for Christmas in California, and backup center Karen Spencer, out with bad knees. However, full credit must still be given to Springfield for a superb display of shooting, passing and tight defense...
After Harvard opened up its only lead of the game, 14-8, in the first eight minutes of the first half, Springfield tightened its zone defense and prevented the Crimson from getting the ball inside to center Leslie Greis...
...first win is always good," D'Agostino, who raised his record to 2-1, said after the match. Coach Johnny Lee said he was glad to see the matmen pull out a close victory, especially after the team's narrow defeats at the hands of Boston University and Springfield. The matmen now sport a 1-2 record. The next matches for the Crimson will be tomorrow night a' the IAB, when they host New Hampshire and Worcester Tech...
...that gift isn't ridiculous enough for you, for $30,000 you and four of your friends can venture out on a "Lincoln safari" to, of all places, Springfield, Illinois, accompanied by Lincoln scholar and actor Richard Blake and an Honor Guard of the Illinois Fifth Cavalry and Regiment. You can meet an Illinois Gov. James Thompson who will present you with a registered deed to one square inch of land on Lincoln's "Forgotten Farm." The farm, where you will later camp out in Civil War tents, is "little known, even to the most avid Lincoln buffs," the catalogue...