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The victory was nice, but it could have been much nicer. The Islanders did not want just a Stanley Cup; they wanted it in a four-game sweep. Dynasties expect such things, and in the nine years since the team was formed, the Islanders have built hockey's most...
The main forces behind the Islanders' rise are President and General Manager Bill Torrey, 46, and Coach Arbour, 48. Torrey is a bespectacled, sweet-faced former college hockey player and executive of the old California Seals, whose unassuming demeanor camouflages one of the most astute minds in sport. The...
The Boston Celtics added another flag to their collection last night-the 14th for the franchise, but the first for the Bird et al-with a gutsy 102-91 win over the Houston Rockets.
The A's were all but moved to Denver in 1979 when a threatened lawsuit over Finley's lease with the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum halted the sale. During that time, he ran the franchise down to the material left in his hardscrabble farm system and went through...
The Red Sox owner/general manager flew down to Winter Haven yesterday to preside over the most dangerously interesting session of spring training the franchise has seen since the Winnipeg years began in '67. And while Jim Dorsey and Glenn Hoffman are checking in to the Winter Haven Holiday Inn, Sullivan...