Word: championship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Billy Cunningham ought to know. The outfit he will lead into the pro playoffs next week in quest of the league championship was renowned for being as zany and fractious as any in sport when he took over as coach early this season. The best team money could buy (basketball division) featured a $2.2 million payroll and a collection of egos that beggared even that price tag. Forward George McGinnis often behaved as though his feet were chained to the floor when someone else had the ball. Center Darryl Dawkins, 6 ft. 11 in., 251 lbs., was a tempestuous...
...another as much as they battled opponents. Someone was always complaining about not getting enough playing time or asking to be traded. The Sixers wasted their formidable skills in playground pyrotechnics and ego-invigorating one-on-one duels. The limitations of such tactics were all too evident in the championship series: Philadelphia was whipped by the less-talented but cohesive and unselfish Portland Trail Blazers. When this season began with a 2-4 whimper, Coach Shue was dispatched and Cunningham summoned...
...N.B.A. championship, the 76ers will have to play with all the verve, unselfishness-and Philadelphia brotherly love-that Billy Cunningham has been trying to instill in his supersensitive superstars since becoming coach. His bully boys could be unbeatable. Says Dr. J, who is not known for hyperbole: "We're a very good basketball team that sometimes plays up to its potential, and then it's frightening how good...
...teammate, Chris J. Downey '81, thus captured the first Dunster House Lloyd Walker Classic Eight-Ball Championship, defeating Dunster House residents Tony B. Bator '79 and Tod Tanaka...
...There is just no question about it, we have the talent and the depth to maintain a winning tradition at Harvard," a confident Christakos added. The biggest challenge to Harvard's only national championship sports team comes not from pong strongholds like Rutgers and the University of Miami, but from Harvard's own Athletic Department. The team badly needs tables and a place to play--and if team members can't find tables, what about the rest...