The two hoops junkies had connected at the 1992 Final Four in Minneapolis, sharing a room, and watching Knight's Hoosiers fall to Duke in the semifinals.
Modern European orchestral drums often combine two hoops pressing against each head (one rolled in the skin, the other outside) with indirect lacing (i.e., to the hoops).
I was outnumbered, and hung around Mom, even learning to embroider cloth between two hoops while I sat on the stoop beside her.
They looked dramatic, they had two hoops and some ribbons; they did some incredibly complicated shizzle, at one point rolling the hoops at one another's backs, and seeming telepathically to know when to roll backwards over them.
When the circus opens at Madison Square Garden tonight, Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey will unveil the Wheel of Steel -- two hoops revolving around an axle that split mid-performance into four wheels.
The full-size court with two hoops is filled with a maze of bright red and blue arches - as high as 19 feet and as wide as 51 feet - that represents the imagined trajectory of a bouncing ball changing possession between two teams.
One routine is with five balls and the other is with three ribbons and two hoops.
