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Can’t shoot straight?

Predictably, the ineptitude of shooting just 29.1 percent from the field, including 4-of-19 inaccuracy from 3-point range, took its collective toll. It was the lowest point total this season for the Mount (7-10, 2-6 in Northeast Conference play), its worst shooting percentage of the season on its own campus.

In terms of reaction, Mount coach Jim Phelan framed the worthiness of his players' showing upon entering his press conference unaccompanied by any Mountaineers. He muttered that none of them were worth bringing along to the interview room.

Who could argue with Phelan?

“We’re like the gang that couldn’t shoot straight,” Phelan said. “You’ve got to be able to score. This is a terrible exhibition of shooting.... We’re missing and some of them are forced, I suppose. They can’t shoot straight.”

- Mount can't 'shoot straight', CarrollCountyTimes.com, February 1, 2003.

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Prohibition, as it was called, was supported by the same barnyard-style rhetoric that you hear about drugs. Enormous government organizations were formed to fight illegal alcohol. Corruption became rampant. It became a standard joke that the big supporters of prohibition were the cops and bootleggers. The American public finally got fed up with corruption and hypocrisy, and repealed the amendment that had created Prohibition.