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...tribute last night came down to the last second of the five-minute overtime period, when a Donald Fleming jumper hit the right side of the rim, skipped over the hoop, grazed the backboard, and skittered to the floor, preserving Princeton's twenty-first straight triumph over the Crimson...
...Mills was a human backboard out there," Felske said after Mills had captured the match by the surprising score...
...tennis world, that straight-toothed set which thinks a backboard is 40 feet wide, was predictably unsettled by John McEnroe's angry outburst in Friday's Wimbledon semifinal against Jimmy Connors...
...officials are fouling up great and exciting matches with incompetence. It is even all right, it seems to me, to get mad at an opponent; in other sports, this is called "psyching up" and encouraged, but in tennis it is called ungentlemanly. Those Americans who realize that a backboard is but three feet wide will never love the sport as long as it remains corseted in the tight Victorian discomfort of false politeness...
...Philadelphia, meanwhile, everyone has begun to listen to Erving. A soaring magician who could seemingly leave the floor at midcourt and glide like a bird of prey to the backboard, he joined the 76ers from the A.B.A. for a record $3.5 million in 1976. But Erving found an overtalented team of prima donnas who were loathe to give him the ball and shunned him off-court as well...