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In a hectic Sunday of playoff action, two defending champions bowed out and the Celtics took a 3-2 lead in their semi-final series with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Playing on the champions' home court, the Suns got 21 points each from Paul Westphal and Garfield Heard. Meanwhile, the high-scoring Warrior duo of forward Rick Barry and guard Phil Smith was held to a total of eight points in the final period.
Unchanged, however, is the paper's willingness to assume unpopular editorial positions; it champions gun control (anathema in Alaska) and stricter environmental protection laws. The Daily News generally supports Democrats and endorsed George McGovern for President in 1972. But Fanning does not let the paper's politics get...
Though Canfield champions Israel's cause, and admires the tenacity of the Israeli people, he has less positive feelings toward American Jews. He believes that
A natural corollary to this attitude towards sports is the notion that life itself is the biggest sport of all. Ironically, while many of those who hold this view may even have been champions in some game of sports, more often than not they have never been champions in the...