It was amazing to see the contrast of U.C.L.A. players — and we're talking big guys like Lorenzo Mata-Real, not scrawny walk-ons — take multiple steps and use their whole body to heave a shot near the basket.
They tend to work best on those scrawny whippets on wheels and anyone who wants to look a little less garish, but still benefit from brilliantly designed technical clothing will have to look elsewhere.
The image of football lies, to a great extent, in your hands".Yet to see it in action is to witness a scrawny man on a beach tutting at the beefcake who has kicked sand in his lunch.
So when we came here, to Buena Vista, a scrawny dot on the map of Baja California, I expected the occasional iguana in the toilet and cockroaches the size and disposition of airliners.
There was the man they called Taxi Driver, because he'd been arrested while driving a cab, and there was a gaunt man they called Gus, but nobody knew why that name had stuck, and he was also sometimes called Mr. Burns, after the scrawny villain on "The Simpsons".
You can make friends or an apple pie or you can make the scrawny kid on the block say "uncle".
Back in the day, that 7-1 gargantuan would put the scrawny guard on his butt for challenging him in his domain: the paint.
Without the water buffalos and the conical hats, it could have been Faulkner's Mississippi: a region dotted with settlements of rough-cut wooden houses, where kids tended scrawny livestock on the banks of wide, lazy rivers.
Once puberty hit, Lee, who is now 5'10" and 250 pounds, went from being a scrawny kid getting picked on to one who was able to strike back.
Who is that scrawny old coot on the bicycle, snarling for passage?
