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What’s up with those “three-point goggles” anyway?

Doron Lamb

Doron Lamb

Since we’re all brushing up on the finer points of college basketball this week, here’s a new vocabulary term to remember: “Three-point goggles.” As you’ll see in the NCAA tournament this week, players on teams from Duke to Kentucky will celebrate three-point buckets by fitting themselves with pantomimed spectacles, the kind your kindergartener might make while pretending to be a superhero.  To make the gesture, players form the ‘A-OK’ sign over both eyes to form “goggles” with their thumbs and forefingers, and…

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