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The Cosby Show Season 5 Episode 19

The Boys of Winter

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AIRED: 2/23/89

Cliff receives a visit from Bill Barry, who coached him on a youth city league team. When Cliff refuses to join Elvin, Theo, Howard and Lou in a backyard basketball game, Theo explains that his father recently had an experience that soured him on basketball. Cliff is tight-lipped about the incident, and refuses to even share the details with Coach Barry. When the coach and his wife come over for dinner, Clair produces a videotape of the game that left Cliff so upset. He and some doctors played a basketball game against a squad of much younger lab technicians--who all happen to be women. The women defeated Cliff's team soundly. Cliff had a few highlights, but struggled other times and was exhausted by the end of the game. The coach insists that he is proud of Cliff for giving such a good effort. Cliff tells Clair that he has no problem with losing to women, but is embarrassed by his poor physical condition. They reminisce about a game where he scored the winning basket as a 16-year-old, and agree that memories are the most important thing about sports.moreless

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Bill Cosby	Dr. Heathcliff "Cliff" Huxtable
Keshia Knight Pulliam	Rudy Huxtable
Phylicia Rashad	Clair Huxtable
Malcolm-Jamal Warner	Theo Huxtable
Tempestt Bledsoe	Vanessa Huxtable
Geoffrey Owens	Elvin Tibideaux

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Tiger Haynes	Coach Bill Barry	Guest Star
Birdie M. Hale	Mrs. Barry	Guest Star
Bill Bradley	Cliff's Teammate #1	Guest Star
Reno Wilson	Howard	Recurring Role
Alex Ruiz	Lou Hernandez	Recurring Role

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- Rhonda Rompola played with Nancy Lieberman-Cline on the Old Dominion teams that won AIAW championships in 1979 and 1980. She went on to become the head women's basketball coach at Southern Methodist University.
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- Nancy Lieberman-Cline is known as one of the best women's college basketball players of all-time. She led Old Dominion University to two AIAW (now NCAA Women's Division I) championships in 1979 and 1980.
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- Anuncha Browne-Sanders was an All-American college basketball player at Northwestern University and led NCAA Women's Division I in scoring in 1985 with a 30.5 ppg average. She is best known, however, for working in the New York Knicks' front office and winning a sexual harassment lawsuit against coach Isiah Thomas in 2007.
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