Even in an air-cooled auditorium basketball seemed out of place in July. In Kansas City last week, the crack University of Kentucky team and the equally talented Phillips Oilers (which together make up the U.S. Olympic squad) tried it.
The game ended with the score tied at 61 points. Then, in the second overtime period, with the Oilers leading by one point, somebody threw a firecracker. Thinking it was the final gun, the Oilers walked off the floor. A Kentucky player playfully grabbed the ball, and shot a basket. Then the regular gun sounded,...
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