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...Acosta, an All-American in the midst of handball-ignorant Harvard, the finish was a bit disappointing. As the tournament's number-one seed, he had received a first-round bye. But then Acosta lost his opening match, going to an 11-point tie-breaker in the third and decisive set. "I kinda blew it," he said last night...
...following is a list of first-round games in the four regions of the NCAA's post-season tournament to decide the 1978 national collegiate basketball champion. First-round competition will start this Saturday, March...
...rate, it all begins tonight at 9:15, after first-round losers Boston College and Northeastern play for third place at 6:15. Hopefully, it will be a warm-up for a B.C. win over Providence this Friday...
Floyd Patterson, 43, gained the championship by winning a tournament after Marciano retired in 1956. Patterson lost the title to Ingemar Johansson in 1959 and then won it back in 1960, making him the first man ever to regain the championship. After two first-round knockouts by Sonny Liston, he retired in 1972. Patterson now operates an amateur boxing club and is New York's acting athletic commissioner. After he lost his title, Patterson was so humiliated that he sometimes wore disguises. Now he says: "What I've been looking for throughout my whole life I have found...
Singles players Todd Lundy and Kevin Shaw took their first-round matches before losing close second-round contests--Lundy in a cliffhanger--while Lundy and Andy Chaikovsky dropped their first-round doubles match...