Word: championship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington Bullets defeated the Boston Celtics yesterday afternoon, 98-92, to win their best-of-seven series for the Eastern Conference championship, four games to two. The Bullets, reaching the NBA finals for only the second time in their history, will play the championship round against either the Golden State Warriors or the Chicago Bulls. Those clubs are knotted at 3-3 in their battle for the Western Conference championship...
With Princeton dispatched from the FIBL race. Harvard traveled to Annapolis to face a Navy squad which needed two victories to the Pennsylvania for the EIBL championship...
...dramatic 6.5 victory left Harvard in third place at the end of the EIBL season, but it was a classy was to step down from a five year hold on the championship of Eastern collegiate baseball...
Harvard accomplished this feat despite the sub-par (as in too many shots over par) performance of number one man Alex Vik, a victory equivalent to the Celtics winning the NBA Championship with Henry Finkel as the starting center...
...professional tennis, there is no longer the easy draw or easy first round. Anyone, on his day, might beat anyone else. That the top-ranking pros can keep their games at championship peak throughout the year continues to astound many of us who paced ourselves in a more leisurely way toward the major tournaments...