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Baseball merely discourages the black flair. Football actually legislates against it, restraining end-zone celebrators and individualists of every stripe. At a stadium distance, the shades of baseball and football players might be neutralized slightly. But a basketball player running around in his underwear cannot be pushed back inside a helmet. The game is too intimate, too sweaty, too bearded to be uniform and regulated. By the way, Johnson shot the hook because, at 6 ft. 9 in., he feared his jump shot might be blocked. "I don't take a jump-shot jumper; I take a tiptoe jumper...
Broderick works best as a culture buzzard, circling scenes of death and derangement, identifying choice morsels by stripe and cry. His range includes a wide variety of wildlife: a condemned murderer named Germany Baker, a radical feminist with a wardrobe of obscene T shirts, an ambitious, self- absorbed television newswoman, black and Hispanic militants, limousine , liberals and Fritz Finn, President of the U.S., who has had an affair with Broderick's late sister. Jack's brother Augustine, affectionately known throughout the world as Bro, is a Benedictine priest with 14 honorary degrees, a 43-line entry...
Coming into last week at the bottom of the Ivy League ratings for Field goal and free throw percentage the Crimson has now moved, into third--a notch above Princeton and three above Penn--in shooting from the floor, and fifth from the charity stripe...
...Crimson was much more effective from the charity stripe against Columbia, hitting 23 of 30 attempts, including 14-for-16 in the second half...
...Chuck Jones, 74, director of so many Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Road Runner animated shorts that even he has lost count. Jones has no trouble recalling the number of books he has produced: this is his first. The star is a highly odiferous creature who wears his white stripe in front, where no enemy can see it. In the forest, confusion reigns supreme. The panthers, foxes and bears are afraid to hunt; without a stripe across the back, any small, furry animal might be a stinker. Will hunger prevail? Jones believes in a peaceable kingdom, but he is well...