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The Week In Sports

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

For the first time under Rick Pitino, Louisville is on a roll going into March • LeBron James's high school buddies spark Akron

THE NBA

Rookie Dwight Howard has look of a longtime star • Snag in Ray Allen contract talks • Danny Ainge grows up as a G.M.

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Photograph by John W. McDonough

FRYE COOKING

  Arizona senior center Channing Frye (45) made 13 of 15 shots while scoring 30 points against Washington last Saturday, but the Wildcats' shaky perimeter play and poor free throw shooting down the stretch kept them from clinching the Pac-10 title, as the Huskies won 93-85 in Seattle.