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...York Knicks signed Minnesota guard Trent Tucker, their first-round draft choice, yesterday...
...well, almost all traditions at this Mundial '82 Cup. In what the French are calling "le mundial des surprises," a handful of low-ranked national teams are generating shock waves and upsets. This year, for the first time, the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), soccer's Swiss-based, iron-fisted ruling organization, expanded the number of qualifying first-round teams from 16 to 24. The soccer heavyweights complained. The inclusion of nations such as El Salvador, Northern Ireland and Algeria would merely prolong the first round, they muttered privately. Teams like Cameroon and Kuwait would bore...
Although there were no reports of the flu circulating through the ranks of the team Yesterday, Maureen Finn, who received a bad Charlie horse weekend at the first-round of tryouts for the All-New England team, will be on the sidelines this afternoon...
...deciding game of their best-of-three mini-series, the Seattle Supersonics moved into the Western Conference semifinals with a 104-83 victory over the Houston Rockets in Seattle. The Sonics, who beat Houston, 102-87, in the first game but dropped a 91-70 decision Friday night, will now play San Antonio, which received a first-round bye Phoenix will meet Los Angeles in the other Western Conference semifinal series...
...singles, Evans fell victim to a first-round upset, bowing to Eli Kathy Dalton, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. Evans will probably capture the consolation championship today...