Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really need to do is polish the rough edges," said Kellogg, who added that she expected the team to win the remainder of its games and qualify for the tournament...
...Crimson is also struggling to qualify for the New England area tournament to be held at Springfield College in Springfield next month...
Unlike last year, when 16 teams participated, only eight area schools will qualify for the tournament, which will send its top two finishers on to the nationals at Princeton...
Both of the victims were exceptionally tall, one 208 cm (6 ft. 10 in.), the other only 2 in. shorter, and both had been playing in an invitational basketball tournament in Portsmouth, Va. One had a laceration nearly an inch long and half an inch deep on the side of his hand; it required sutures. The other had a severe scrape, also on the side of his hand, that resembled an area from which a skin graft had been removed. Both were suffering from dunk laceration syndrome...
This latest "discovery" in the growing field of sports medicine was made by Dr. Arthur Kirk, the tournament's attending physician, who treated the two athletes. Seeking the cause of the injuries, he examined one of the baskets and found the culprit: a sharp, rough edge on the flange that connected the rim to the backboard. There were also other potentially dangerous sharp edges and points on the rim. Kirk's conclusion, in a straight-faced report to the Journal of the American Medical Association: the lacerations had occurred when the players' hands hit the hoop while...