Basketball
Rick was a member of the Drake Bulldog basketball team that finished third in the 1969 NCAA basketball tournament. He is best known for blocking a shot against Lew Alcindor in the 1969 NCAA national semi-finals in Louisville.
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“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)