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| Hoya Saxa Hallelujah !!!! |
Fall, 1984. Georgetown Hoyas are defending NCAA champs after beating Houston 84-75 that spring.
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| It's a Big Man's Game ... |
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| Mentor/Coach Thompson and disciple |
Walking with kooky girlfriend downhill on the north side of Wisconsin Avenue, N.W., 1400 block, on a Georgetown Saturday night - shoulder to shoulder with the hipsters and wannabees, just about in front of
Commander Salamander. Jostling for position as the sidewalks groan. Suddenly up ahead, looming like
Ted Hughes' Iron Man or a gigantic tsunami, comes Patrick Ewing.
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| Looming... |
He's in a pack or entourage and towers head, shoulders and torso above the fray. The pack at ground level is moving herky-jerky and jostling as well - like Kurt Rambis
in the paint.
...But, planing uphill, Patrick is like a giraffe - the long, graceful upper body rocking the same way that a giraffe moves, hinged at the low end of the neck when crossing the veldt at a lazy gallop.
Ewing hove into view, passed above us like the Empire State Building, and was gone!
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