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...quickly, a couple of minor reforms: tell players to get rid of the moldy "gym rat" fad of wearing T shirts under their uniform shirts. This is intended to signify dedication, because if you keep practicing three pointers long after the heat has been turned off, you need a T shirt. But the pros don't dress this way, do they? Also lose the dreary possession arrow and reinstate the jump after a held ball. Little squirts love to try to outjump the big droids, and audiences love to see them do it. Right. And, coach, you up there...
...thunder you hear on these March nights is the better part of 10 million basketballs being dribbled, slapped, dunked, palmed and bounced in every oversteamed gym and field house and on every chilled and ragged patch of asphalt and on every mud-caked farmyard where a kid can pivot and hook and dream...
...more than a dozen years ago, basketball didn't amount to nearly so much beyond the community gym. The pros were dismal, near bankruptcy. March Madness had not been invented by the impresarios. David Morton of the Amateur Athletic Union thinks the 1979 game between Indiana State and Michigan State, featuring Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, "lit the flame under college basketball" that carried a new excitement through the pros and down into the high schools...
Harvard has already met Roger Williams twice this season, once in a tournament at Rhode Island and once at Roger Williams' own gym. Both confrontations led to sound Crimson wins...
...time. The front , curtain's stylized glimpse of Manhattan evokes the '40s-ish nostalgia of Guys and Dolls, while the main set, a dark framework strewn with irregular cutout boxes of vivid color, recalls the '60s -- and, more precisely, Simon's musical hit Sweet Charity. A carousel-like jungle gym in Day-Glo tones suggests the '70s, as do the male lead's fixations on meditation and macrobiotics. The sexual precocity of the female lead's 12-year-old daughter feels contemporary. Yet the sonorous music and often sentimental lyrics seem straight from the '50s. This mishmash makes it harder...