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  Four Corners - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Four Corners, a region of the United States
Four Corners, a town located in Weston County in Northeastern Wyoming in the Black Hills.
Four Corners, a residential development in the suburban Canadian town of Georgetown, Ontario
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 Info and facts on 'Four corners offense'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The four corners offense was an offensive strategy for stalling in college basketball (additional info and facts about college basketball).
Four of the players would stand in the corners of the half-court and the fifth would dribble the ball in the middle.
(Thus the four corners has always been purely a strategy of college basketball.) There was a perception that the NBA shot clock didn't permit time to work the ball to get a good shot, and that it would reduce the opportunity for varied styles of play.
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 Four corners offense - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The four corners offense was an offensive strategy for stalling in college basketball.
The "five seconds closely guarded" rule was originally introduced partially to prevent stalling, and other rules changes were made to the college rules through the 1970s in hopes of eliminating stalling without using a shot clock, as the NBA had used since the 1950s.
UNC's coach Dean Smith was the man who had made the four corners famous; a prominent restaurant/bar (at a four-way intersection) was called the Four Corners.
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 Encyclopedia: Four Corners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Four Corners made an early reputation for testing the boundaries of expectations of television as a medium as well as of political acceptability.
Four Corners has consistently been accused of political bias, particularly of a left-wing orientation, and for failing to abide by the ABC's charter which requires "balance" in the coverage of news and current affairs.
Four Corners has never achieved high ratings by the standards of the commercial networks and is often contrasted in content and style to commercial rivals such as the Nine Network's Sixty Minutes which is able to claim much wider popular appeal.
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 Encyclopedia article: Four Corners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Four Corners (additional info and facts about Four Corners), a point in Canada (A nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)
Four Corners (additional info and facts about Four Corners), an Australia (A nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony) n current affairs program
Four Corners, a movie (A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement) by James Benning (additional info and facts about James Benning)
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 Encyclopedia: Four corners offense   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
John McClendon was a college basketball coach who, despite the respect he earned for his ability, is relatively little-known because he coached at predominantly fl colleges and universities during the era of segregation.
Called off the bench as a substitute late in a one-goal game, Parlow will take the ball into the corner at the other team's end of the field and stand there with her back to net.
One strategy he made infamous was the four corners offense, a strategy for stalling with a lead near the end of the game.
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 ESPN.com: NCB - Hoops 101: The Princeton Offense
There is an understanding that offense is a series of two- and three-man plays and that all five players cannot compete for the ball but, rather, share it.
As you can see, this offense is based on good spacing of your offensive players on the court, the intelligence to "read" how the defenders are playing and, then, executing the fundamentals to make the correct play.
Coach Smith's book, "Basketball, Multiple Offense and Defense" is still available in bookstores or online, and has a chapter on the "T Game", as well as other aspects of his coaching philosophy, including the "Motion Offense", the "Four Corners" offense and the "Run and Jump" defense.
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 Corner Computer Armoire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The cabinet is closed by two to four full height doors, to keep out dust or give a tidy appearance to a room by hiding the cluttered working surface of the desk.
This kind of armoire desk is a direct descendant of the antique Rolltop desk which was common in corporate or government offices three or four generations ago, since it provides a fast and efficient way to store or hide current work.
Edred John Henry Corner (12 January 1906 - 14 September 1996) was a botanist who occupied the posts of assistant director at the Singapore Botanic Gardens (1926 - 1946) and Professor of Tropical Botany at the University of Cambridge (1949-1973).
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 ESPN.com: NCB - Hoops 101: Flex Offense
The basis of the offense, however, was introduced in the early 1970s by Carroll Williams of Santa Clara University.
When the ball comes out of the corner and is reversed from the power forward (4) to the off-guard (2) and ultimately to the small forward (3), it's up to the point guard (1) to set the back screen to keep the initial pattern going.
When the defense was switched to man-to-man unbeknownst to Brown and, with his teammates in the four corners of the half-court, he continuously drove to the basket 1-on-1.
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 The Site I Volleyball I Froner Corners Offense for 6's
The four corners of the court can be summed up with the basic directional commands of "line," "cross," "cut" and "short".
The deep line and angle hits target the far corners of the opponent's court, while the cut shot and short shot target the near corners.
Plus, the four corner shots force the defender to scramble which puts them in a less -than- ideal transition situation.
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 Excerpt: Sacred Land, Sacred View: Navajo Perceptions of the Four Corners Region
The expected answer was that, if all four sides of the structure faced south, the house would have to be built at the North Pole and that the bear would therefore have to be white.
Four disastrous years of incarceration on an inadequate, sterile reserve had decimated the Diné (the People) physically and spiritually to the point that, to them, the only meaningful answer for life was to return to the high desert plateaus they had left.
Respect is necessary to avoid offense, which may take either a spiritual or a physical form; to the Diné, there is often not a clear division.
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 Coaching Box  (Ask the Coach- Q248)- The Basketball Highway
Interestingly enough as a young assistant some years ago we too faced a number of teams who were quite proficient at milking the four corners offense at our expense.
The problem is that both man-to-man and zone can be readily handled in the four corners because the cuts and attacks are relatively predictable.
We want both the player defending the initial penetrator and the wing defender on the side the ball is passed to the upper to corner to immediately trap the corner off of this pass.
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The Irish needed to find themselves after a four game losing streak beginning with Georgetown and ending with Rutgers; they needed to learn to play agin with abandon as they did in their first games this year when the easily dispatched ranked opponents such as Stanford, Duke and James Madison.
Four more goals gave the Irish a 9-3 advantage at the half, even though ‘Cuse had tried a fast break style play with only 18 seconds left.
Their stall offense was effective but with around 2:00 to go, one of the Irish got pinched, lost the ball momentarily but came out of the pinch with the ground ball to preserve the win.
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 Baltimore City Paper: COLUMNS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
What the four-corners offense is to North Carolina, what the hard foul is to Clemson, the almost-win is to Maryland.
The calls were bizarre individually (a Virginia player tackled Steve Blake after a steal and got credit for a held ball; Terence Morris brushed past a defender and got called for his fifth foul) and a bad joke in the aggregate.
This was not supposed to happen, not after they lost four starters from last year's Sweet 16 squad, including No. 2 NBA pick Steve Francis.
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 OnMilwaukee.com
The "Four Corners Offense" by Dean Smith at Carolina might have been brilliant with Phil Ford at the wheel.
Lesser teams that were outclassed in talent, could simply run "four corners" and take their chances at an upset in the second half.
My sister had a hard time fathoming the "no dunk" rule, but the "Four Corners" offense was truly beyond her imagination.
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 Four corners offense   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Four corners offense in an offensive strategy in basketball, also called "stall ball," which involves holding the ball to keep scoring low in a time before theshot clock.
It is called four corners because players typically stand at the corners of the half-court and pass the ball between eachother.
Teams can also go into this type of offense once they have a lead in order tohold it until the game ends.
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 CBS News | Almost Everybody Picks Duke | December 13, 1999 05:19:00
As SportsLine goes into its four-corners offense -- sending writers to all points of the country to cover every subregional -- we polled our top 10 hoopheads most intimately involved in covering the NCAA Tournament, to see if they really know what they're talking about.
Four teams were unanimous selections -- second-seed Maryland and a trio of No. 1s in Duke, Michigan State and UConn.
In the difficult-to-pick South where No. 1 seed Auburn was the weakest of the four, Maryland comes out too tight after a favorable draw toward its first Final Four appearance and loses to NCAA-tested Jim O'Brien and his Ohio State Buckeyes.
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 MYI Intramural Basketball Rules and Regulations for ages 9-18 years
This is to prohibit offensive coaches from intentionally spreading the court (i.e., four corners offense) and using one or two players to run their offense down the center of the court.
A clear out offensive is defined as an offense in which a single player handles the ball isolated on one side of the court while the remaining teammates are on the other side of the court.
In particular, referees should watch for offensive teams spreading the court (four corners offense) and having only one or two players run their offense down the center of the court.
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 Four Corners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Four Corners Monument is a Navajo park, the entrance to which is in New Mexico.
This monument marks the only place in the U.S. where four states, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, (known as the four corners states), share a common border.
It was now Echo's turn to have her chance to be a fugitive in four states.
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 Four Corners - usa, offense dean smith, run, monument   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Four Corners town having trouble setting up shelter CORTEZ, Colo ” Even rural areas aren't escaping the homeless problem, and this Four Corners town is having trouble setting up a shelter for the sagebrush homeless
Four Corner care: Four Corners continues to grow, this time with a new health clinic opening the first of the new year Four Corners Health Care is scheduled to open for appointments only on Jan 9, said owner and operator Marie Mitchell
Virginia State corners Catawba 84-79 HICKORY, N C - Rodney Henry scored 16 points to lead four players in double figures as Virginia State picked up its first win of the season with an 84-79 victory over Catawba yesterday in the Lenoir-Rhyne Holiday tournament
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 Port Arthur News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
But the Panthers, ranked No. 1 in Texas in Class 4A by the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches, outscored the Jaguars 21-8 in the second quarter and were off and running to their 21st win in as many games before a near-capacity crowd of about 1,800 at Ozen High.
Joe Lamb hit 8 of 10 from the field en route to his 16 points and backup points guard David Redmon came off the bench to score 12 points (3 of 10 shooting) and grab a team-high eight rebounds to go with three assists.
Ozen scored the first eight points of Tuesday's game, four on a pair of Lamb buckets, three on Bellard's swish from the top of the key and the final one on a free throw by Randall.
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 The Daily Tar Heel - Tar Heels Go Four Corners, Struggle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The four corners offense, designed by former North Carolina men's coach Dean Smith, was more than a mere part of UNC basketball.
The four corners of 2002 is still symbolic.
Brian Morrison turned the ball over on the Tar Heels' third possession in the four corners, and Bersticker missed a hook shot before Butler closed the half with his finger roll and subsequent free throw.
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 Steelers win tediously, but they win   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Washington (3-8) managed 156 yards in offense and one score on Patrick Ramsey's 2-yard pass to halfback Chris Cooley in the third quarter.
Ramsey was sacked four times, twice by linebacker Joey Porter, and cornerback Deshea Townsend had an interception.
He also was sacked four times, making it 11 in the past two games.
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 Pasco: Delaying impact fee would add to deficit
In basketball it's called the four-corners offense: a stalling technique made obsolete by the advent of the shot clock.
Instead, most commissioners favored their own fast-break offense.
The impact fee of $892 per single family home will be the subject of public hearings and a final vote early next year.
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 Four Corners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Four Corners (TV series), an Australian news program.
Four Corners (United States), a region of the United States.
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
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 Four Corners Free Press
It brings fee non-payment in line with other recreation offenses, such as littering and driving off road, which are classified as Class B Misdemeanors.
While the first offense, according to the bill, cannot exceed $100, subsequent violations are considered misdemeanor offenses.
Both the registered owner of a vehicle and its occupants are jointly liable for penalties for non-payment, unless the registered owner can prove that the vehicle was used without his or her permission.
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 D3hoops.com: Yeshiva 67, SUNY-Maritime 51
The Privateers came out in the first half showcasing their new four corners offense that was successful again FDU-Florham earlier this week.
They would set up the offense, and hold onto the ball until about 15 seconds were left on the shot clock and then execute the offense without flaw.
It may not be the most entertaining offensive play, but it was effective in the early goings, although they would later go back in to their usual offensive sets later in the game.
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The "Four corners" offense, a tenacious zone defense, and aggressive full court traps all were introduced to the game by Smith.
His instituting the four corner offense, essentially a stall technique when his team had the lead (a situation he became fairly accustomed to) led directly to the shot clock on both the collegiate and professional levels of the game.
Aside from all of that, maybe Smith should be remembered for two things: his contribution to racial desegregation in the South, and how he ran his program while a head coach.
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 ESPNMAG.com - Four Corners
The year is 2050, nearly a half-century after the four major North Carolina basketball schools made their last stand on Tobacco Road.
In short, the Big Four are once again a microcosm of the college hoops universe, just as they were back in that watershed year of 2003, when everybody had to rely on youngins to negotiate old pressures, and parity reigned supreme.
In Sendek speak, "positionless" describes the Wolfpack offense, which is inspired by Princeton's classic backdoor screens and cuts.
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