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Terry O'Reilly flipped home a rebound from just beyond the crease at 1:50 of sudden death overtime Wednesday night, boosting the Bruins to a 4-3 victory over the Chicago Black Hawks and a 2-0 lead in their best-of-seven NHL quarterfinal playoff...
Pardon me if I've stepped out of the baseline, but if you call playing the Los Angeles Cadavers in a best-of-seven series "pressure" after the Yankees' season-long domestic squabbles and the almost fatal playoffs with the Royals, I think you're buying your drugs from Mac Herron...
True to century-old form, the America's Cup races ended with the rout of the foreign boat. Australia's 4-0 defeat in the best-of-seven series off Newport, R.I., brought the U.S. record since 1958, when the New York Yacht Club revived the cup series with sleek 12-meter sloops, to 28 wins and only two losses. Senior Editor Timothy Foote joined the spectator fleet for the last race. His report...
...stations, the hapless Atlanta Braves), has no intention of losing the trophy. "We came to win," he exhorted his ten-man crew last week, "and that's what we're doing, right?" Among the eagle-eyed yachting fraternity that swarmed into historic Newport for the best-of-seven series, there was nearly unanimous agreement. Despite obvious progress since their last challenge three years ago with Southern Cross, Australian Real Estate Developer Alan Bond and his team have apparently not yet caught up with the Americans in the complex art of designing, outfitting and sailing the 12-meter thoroughbreds...
...Turner, a sly Southern fox in the elegant and exclusive New York Yacht Club's domain of America's Cup racing, has outsailed his rivals, Sailmakers Ted Hood of Independence and Lowell North of Enterprise, in the competition leading up to the best-of-seven series for the world's oldest international sporting trophy...