Word: hoosiers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Four members of the Harvard men's swimming and diving team left for the Hoosier State yesterday to compete in the NCAA Championships...
...face-of-true-nomenclatural-greatness (the Polo Grounds). What stadium names haven't been is brand names. But that's changed. San Diego's Jack Murphy Stadium has become Qualcomm Stadium, which is either a communications company or a powerful nighttime cold medicine, depending on whom you ask. The Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis is now the RCA Dome, which no doubt annoyed the city's pilfered Baltimore Colts, who had already changed their letterhead once and would probably prefer not to do it again...
They tried to kill Cinderella in Indiana this year. For 86 years, the Hoosier State's high school basketball tournament was winner-take-all, no matter how big the team or how small. Not now: Some geniuses decided that it would be more sporting to break the tourney into divisions, based on school size. David vs. David, Goliath vs. Goliath. No more Bobby Plump, whose buzzer-beater in 1954 gave tiny Milan High (enrollment 161) the state title and a hallowed place in local legend...
...Hoosier high school basketball is life itself to Indianans, Homer and the Bible together on the hardcourt. Milan High was their one true David. But now the great roundball Cinderellas all hail from Hollywood...
...collapse of the Soviet Union "was a remarkable opportunity in history but one fraught with enormous peril," the life-long hoosier told his audience...