Word: champion
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Although Boston's nine-year streak as divisional champion has ended, the Celtics still have a chance at their eighth consecutive N.B.A. title. They take on Cincinnati in the Eastern division semi-final playoffs starting Wednesday at the Boston Garden...
Boston beats Cincinnati in that three of five series, it will have another shot at the 76ers in the four out of seven Eastern division playoff finals. The winner of that series will take on the Western Division playoff champion to decide the NBA title...
With her wedding only two months away, French Olympic Slalom Champion Christine Goitschel, 21, was treating the slopes gingerly. "I am afraid of falling and getting hurt," she told a teammate at Méribel in the French Alps. Next morning while Christine and her fiancé, Team Trainer Jean Béranger, were studying the course, a vacationing Austrian lost control of her skis at 50 m.p.h. and plowed into the bride-to-be, breaking her right leg and ankle. Ah well, cracked Christine's sister Marielle, herself a slalom champion: "A white plaster cast...
...football? Columbia's fencers are the best in the U.S. So, probably, are Yale's swimmers: what other team can boast a man (Don Schollander) who won four gold medals at the 1964 Olympics? Then there are Cornell's hockey players and Pennsylvania's league champion basketball team. From now on, though, nobody will know for sure how good any of the Ivy athletes are-because last week the league angrily withdrew from all N.C.A.A. championship competition...
...champion Cornell placed four men on the first team: forwards Doug Ferguson, Mike Doran, defenseman Harry Orr, and goalie Errel McKibbon. Runnerup Brown rounded out the lineup, contributing forward Bruce Darling and defenseman Bob Gaureau...