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Born in Rome, the son of a trumpet player, Morricone studied composition at a conservatory but earned his early money as an arranger of Italian pop. As he notes in the 1995 documentary Ennio Morricone, it was one such chart--a raspy, twanging version of Woody Guthrie's Pastures of Plenty for U.S. singer Peter Tevis--that director Sergio Leone asked be adapted for his new western. Remove vocal, add whistling, rev up the guitar volume, and you have the theme for A Fistful of Dollars. This worldwide hit made the careers of Leone, Morricone and the obscure actor...
...team,” Chu said in a conference call with reporters yesterday, “I’ve always approached it as a great blessing, just thinking what an honor it is to be able to represent my country, and play with some of the players that are some of the best in the world.”The team assembles in Grand Forks, Mich. for a pre-World Championships training camp on March 21, wrapping up on April 1 with the second of two scrimmages against Sweden, the country that knocked the U.S. from gold-medal contention...
...into the NCAA Tournament and possibly even winning a national championship or a sub-.500 team that lost its national ranking early on in the season? A team boasting three of the top six scorers in its league, or a team that doesn’t even have one player cracking...
...season with a knee injury, 2006-2007 has been a coming-out party for Finelli. Her steadily-climbing 12.4 points per game average—not to mention this weekend’s performances—should have Ivy League opponents identifying the sophomore as the player to stop. You can bet that Princeton and Penn will know where she is on the court during the second round of Ivy League games this month. “Carrying over from last season and even in this season itself, you can see players figuring out their roles and stepping...
...shot only 5-of-19 from the floor. His backcourt mate, sophomore Drew Housman, had a relatively quiet night with just nine points, compared to his career-high 33-point outburst the night before at Princeton. But Housman made his mark on the defensive end, holding reigning Ivy League Player of the Year Ibrahim Jaaber to nine points on 3-of-7 shooting. All three of Jaaber’s makes from the floor were dunks. But like Housman, Jaaber made his impact on defense, harassing Housman and picking up six steals to spearhead Penn’s 10 fast...