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...hard for Americans to feel like underdogs these days. We seem normal size in our own skins, but to the rest of the world, we've become a nation of supersizing, regime-changing, SUV-driving Goliaths. This may be why the NCAA men's basketball tournament???where little mutts like geographically confused Cleveland State and it-can't-possibly-have-a-team Oral Roberts run with purebreds Duke and UCLA?grows in meaning every year. It may also be the gambling, the guilt-free jalapeño-popper binges or the camaraderie born when three-quarters of the workforce enters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hoop Dreams. | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

Tuesday. Won three easy matches in the Gallia tournament???one in the singles against a little girl named Bendit (6-1, 6-0) and two in the mixed doubles. Jack Hilliard (British) was my partner. Quite attractive, but he wore ugly shoes. The reporters came up. I wouldn't let them photograph me because I had on my oldest sweater and I just told them the truth about it. "Gentlemen," I said, "don't take my photograph today. Wait until Wednesday. I am getting some new French dresses made and they will be delivered Wednesday. I want my California friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Diary | 2/8/1926 | See Source »

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