With the 8,500 fans in Roberto Clemente Coliseum shaking maracas and roaring for the home team tonight, the United States blew out Puerto Rico, 91-65.

The Bronx fans were loud, shaking maracas and bringing the game to a close with chants of "All the way; we're going all the way!"

In her place more than a dozen elementary-school girls, shaking plastic maracas, swept onto the floor with the fluidity of a gentle sea wave.

Mambo Mania Shaking imaginary maracas and scrunching her shoulders as if trying to relieve an itch, Elaine Benson explained that she was "a closet mambo queen."

Monday morning, and Jennifer Logan's second graders are banging tambourines, shaking maracas and chanting their rhyme of the day: If you can spell thing, you can spell sting.

Caught in a sudden shower, we shelter in a bar packed with smiling Habaneros, shaking maracas and dancing to the music of a nine-piece band.

Monday morning, and Jennifer Logan's second graders are banging tambourines, shaking maracas and chanting their rhyme of the day:

He used it as a kora player would, plucking shimmering, syncopated arpeggios while Pip Klein shook maracas or played sunny, symmetrical melodies on flute.

Some are filled with seeds for shaking (maracas), others notched on the outside for rhythmical scraping (güiro).

And the shed made a noise too at those times, like a lot of wooden wind chimes or somebody shaking maracas.