Volume 2
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Apr-Jun 2002
March
17-He Is Risen
16-50 years ago
15-St. Patrick
14-A Song of Drake's Men
13-Cleopatra's Needle
February
12-Ankle Sprains
11-Ski Jumping
10-The Original Tom Thumb
9-Happy Birthday Mom
January
8-Lustron Homes
7-Thinking About Motion Pictures
6-BNSF Rail Yard
5-Petrified Forest
4-Wake Up Jacob
3-Free Throw Specialist
2-House Numbers for Bees
1-Sloppy Joe's Bar
Volume 1
December 2001
Fascinatum Main
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Free Throw Specialist
Jan. 15, 2002 - "New Bulls coach Bill Cartwright isn’t afraid to take a page out of former
boss Phil Jackson’s unorthodox coaching handbook. Or from the Guinness Book
of World Records, either.
Hoping to improve his team’s poor foul shooting, Cartwright recently brought
in a 79-year-old free throw specialist who is in the Guinness book for once
making 2,750 straight.
Tom Amberry, a retired podiatrist from Seal Beach, Calif., who set the
record in ’93 after taking up free throw shooting as a retirement hobby,
worked with the Bulls last week in Chicago and plans to return periodically
during the season. Part technical advisor and part motivational guru, he
claims to help players find a comfortable mental approach when stepping to
the line. "It’s all focus and concentration," he says. Cartwright, who also
has had his team recite the Lord’s Prayer after practice, says he isn’t
trying to become another Zen Master. He just feels that with the Bulls
currently ranked 27th in the NBA in free throw accuracy -- ahead of only the
Heat and Lakers -- at 70.2 percent, what is there to lose?
"My suggestion [to the players] was if you're shooting less than 70 percent,
you should probably give him some time," Cartwright says."
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