Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only N.B.A. surprise. With Wilt Chamberlain departed to coach in the A.B.A. and Jerry West sidelined by injuries most of the year, the Los Angeles Lakers went into the final days of the regular season dangerously close to missing the play-offs for the first time since 1958. The Detroit Pistons, meanwhile, were qualifying for postseason play for the first time since...
...Western Conference, the Chicago Bulls face the Detroit Pistons and the Bucks take on the Los Angeles Lakers...
...other series, between Chicago and Detroit will be very close. "That's going to be a fun series to watch; it ought to be fairly physical too," Sanders said. "Brutal" would be a better word to describe it. In a nationally-televised game between the Bulls and the Bucks two weeks ago, three fights broke out between the heated players...
...baseball, dead is synonymous with old, and the Detroit Tigers fit both descriptions. Norm Cash, Al Kaline, Jim Northrup and Mickey Stanley all are names from baseball's past. All were fine ballplayers in their day. Sadly enough, the Tiger front office seems bent on developing this rest home to its fullest. No trades, no youth, no hope. The Tigers are living in the past, but are unfortunately playing in the present. Mickey Lolich and Joe Coleman can't do it all. Prediction: fifth...
Scattered along the bends and twists of this satire-of-a-plot are cameo appearances and sight gags that somehow work. Alex Karras, the ox-like former tackle of the Detroit Lions, plays Mongo, a villain who storms into Rock Ridge and knocks out a horse with a punch in the mouth. Madeline Kahn, the nebbish circus dancer in Paper Moon, is a saloon singer who wails about her sexual fatigue in a clever ditty called "I'm Tired" (words and music, of course, by Mel Brooks...