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[Alice Faber]

FRITZ JUENGLING wrote:
> I remember years ago hearing a basketball game between some university
> and Yukon.  I was surprised that Yukon even had a college of any sort,
> much less a very good basketball team.  Only later did I learn that it
> wasn't Yukon, but U Conn.  The stress was just wrong for U Conn.

Probably didn't help that the team is called the Huskies.

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