Word: championship
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...rewarded. Led by a reborn Bill Walton, the Blazers this season finished second in the N.B.A.'s Pacific division and made a four-game sweep of the first-place Los Angeles Lakers in the play-off semifinals, earning the right to meet the favored Philadelphia 76ers for the championship in a best-of-seven series beginning this week. Portland's sound team play should match up well against the freewheeling superstar style of the Julius Ervingand George McGinnis-led 76ers...
...Portland's performance when he did not play. Of those 17 Walton-less games, Portland won only five-a percentage barely above that of the hapless New York Nets. As the season wore on and Walton did not wear out, Portland was struck by an unfamiliar notion: the championship was within reach...
This week's championship battle will match the traditional power against a team with a modern new program for the 70's. Hopkins has won an amazing 27 national championships and, since World War II alone, has produced 55 first-team All-Americans. The sport's Hall of Fame sits adjacent to the Blue Jays' historic Homewood Field; until a few years ago, one could surely say that Johns Hopkins was lacrosse...
...ranked Cornell and second-ranked Johns Hopkins both notched one-sided victories Saturday to advance to the NCAA lacrosse championship game. The showdown will be held this Saturday at the University of Virginia...
Defending their newly-won Eastern championship title taken last week in Worcester, Yale jumped off the stakeboats and took a quick two-seat lead that they were to never relinquish. After thirty strokes Radcliffe hit a stretch of bad water caused by a series of wakes in their lane, and that encounter set them a full length off the pace. "That rough water was a real tough break, one they didn't deserve," coach Peter Raymond said after the race...