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Okay, so he doesn't look like a first-round draft pick, or even a free agent from the CBA. And he probably belongs on Letterman with Larry "Bud" Melman instead on the Utah bench...
Harvard's first-round opponent is Cornell, a team that Harvard defeated in five sets earlier this month. The Big Red upset Princeton in five sets Saturday, giving the Tigers their first Ivy loss...
...playoffs, too, can be unpredictable. Any team can win three games in a five-game series or four in a seven-game series. Last year, the Washington Bullets took the Detroit Pistons to a fifth and final game in the first-round of the playoffs. The Pistons eventually advanced to the NBA finals...
...first-round draft choice) Brian Shaw is a real pleasant surprise," Heinsohn says. "But I don't think people should go overboard about him. He's played well in a few exhibition games but other teams haven't developed a book...
...more special than '84," said Donovan. "All the best teams were here, especially the Russians." The U.S. rolled over the Soviet women in the semifinals, 102-88, and the gold-medal game was largely an anticlimax. The U.S. men, surprisingly, never made it to the finals. Despite having eight first-round N.B.A. draft picks on the team, they were ambushed in the semis by a seasoned Soviet squad, 82-76. Led by their 7-ft. 3-in. center Arvidas Sabonis and a veteran corps of deadeye 3-point shooters, the Soviets used superior height...