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# Letter: Praise for the Arkansas Hoopsters, a senior women's basketball team
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/092207-story-20070922-5/
- Published: 2007-09-22T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T02:55:45.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

“YOU MUST LEAVE ROOM FOR THE Arkansas Hoopsters — a group of 60-, 70-and 80-year-old women basketball players who shoot and make baskets from the middle of the court. The Hoopsters played the Harlem Globetrotters in an exhibition and beat them. I’ve never seen anything like it. After games, the Hoopsters meet at a local watering hole and hoist a few on the house. Pats on the backside are plentiful.”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 22, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/092207.pdf?ref=smdp.com)