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Basketball's first round is a best-of-five format, while hockey's is a best-of-seven, so the team with a better record going in has a much higher statistical percentage of winning. For example, if a team has a 60 percent chance of taking a one-game series, its chances to win a five-game series go up to more than 68 percent and more then 71 percent in a best-of-seven. Thus, a bad call or a bad break shouldn't be used as an excuse for a better team losing a series...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Losing One's Favor | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

...knows. This much is for sure: On Monday, radio station KMPC dropped its sports-talk format. The end, by any measure, is nigh. One wonders if the Chumash, waiting on the sidelines all these seasons, stand ready to reclaim the dusty basin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dark Days in La-La Land | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

Several creative writing teachers suggest alecture-format class that could accommodate morestudents than the intimate seminars...

Author: By Eliot Bush, | Title: Creative Writing Courses Popular | 4/29/1994 | See Source »

Yale will face the winner in the Ivy League Championship the following Saturday and Sunday in Middletown, Conn., in a best-of-three format...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Frustrating Year Keeps on Going | 4/29/1994 | See Source »

...fall of 1969, the University expanded the format of the weekly Gazette to include Harvard-sanctioned press releases. Before Old Mole, the Gazette had been nothing more than a calendar of University and community events...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: `Mole' Reveals Harvard Secrets | 4/22/1994 | See Source »

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