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...losing image has been promoted mostly through the city's generally embarrassing pro teams. The 76ers set an NBA record last year for the fewest victories in a season (9), and hot shot rookies on the Eagles or Phillies invariably turn up smaller, slower and less talented than reported, and eventually fade away to play out their careers in Pottstown or Reading. There is none of the good-natured loyalty that characterized the early Met fans--Philly crowds can be ugly. They curse, they throw full beer cans, they follow their victims home. One baseball player who fell into disfavor...
...Philadelphia 76ers opened this year's National Basketball Association draft yesterday by picking Olympian Doug Collins of Illinois State. Jim Brewer of Minnesota went second to Portland...
...second-best team in New England, but the notoriously poor quality of fencing in the northeast makes this a dubious distinction. Playing second fiddle to Harvard in fencing, is as unfruitful as winning money betting on the Philadelphia 76ers, and in tonight's contest it doesn't seem likely that the trend will change...
...content merely to set a new National Basketball Association record with 21 consecutive wins (TIME, Dec. 27), the Lakers have since done dramatically more than is necessary. When the Philadelphia 76ers threatened them with a 132-point outburst, the Lakers countered with 154, setting a new N.B.A. high for the season. Then they outscored the Baltimore Bullets 34 to 18 in one quarter, to win their 27th game in a row, breaking a U.S. major-league sports mark set by baseball's New York Giants in 1916. Last week the Lakers won three more games, to run their unbeaten...
...electronic first. I've gotten where I've gotten in the world of sport just by applying the prin ciples of journalism." He does get his share of scoops; he was the first, for ex ample, to report Wilt Chamberlain's move from the Philadelphia 76ers to the Los Angeles Lakers. But it is more his capacity for outrage than reporting that makes Cosell so hard to turn...