Word: vert
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RECYCLED RAMP Amateurs get to use former X Games equipment like this vert ramp, which was reassembled at a YMCA in California...
...first half: First impressions of the newcomers: McGeary can shoot the three, which has been a real weakness of Harvard teams in years past. Demuyakor (6'7) is an energy guy with a nice vert. Housman makes one of two from the line (gotta make those, Drew), Stanford drills an open three, and Harris makes a circus shot...
...talking about a chi-chi burger like you might order at, say, Vert, Wolfgang Puck's fancy brasserie in Hollywood, where the lunchtime Prime Cheese Burger is topped with grilled onion, lettuce, tomato, "aged" cheddar and remoulade (look it up, but basically it's mayonnaise). The burgers on Lucille's menu are the classics - a dozen variations on a generous 4/10th of a pound beef patty with lettuce, tomato and onion on the side. The menu also has American staples like vegetarian salads, cheesecake and iced tea, as well as Tex-Mex offerings, an echo of Lucille's years...
...wing span, my height, my weight—so that they could compare them to everyone else’s,” Edwards says. “They had to see who was the tallest, who had the highest bench max, who had the highest vert and all of that...