21.   Moments later, Olajuwon stopped a Kenny Thomas drive with a hard foul.

22.   No single reason for the recent rash of hard fouls is clear.

23.   Oakley retaliated after being elbowed in the chest by Thorpe, who reacted to a hard foul.

24.   Officials will be extra attentive to hard fouls in an effort to head off another conflict.

25.   Nothing that happens escapes, especially the hard foul that he takes but goes unnoticed by a referee standing nearby.

26.   On defense, he gave hard fouls to Corliss Williamson, the Arkansas all-America center.

27.   On one play Simpkins whacked Barry across the chest with a hard foul.

28.   Spinning to his left, Mason came across his arms with a fairly hard foul but nothing that would be construed as flagrant.

29.   The bodies were banging, the intensity was rising and was punctuated by hard fouls and a pileup on loose balls.

30.   The game featured the angry words, hard fouls and temper tantrums that the Nets figured would come.