Word: jabbar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fight mobs go, the audience Friday night was enthusiastic but unmemorable. The customary quota of celebrities was not met, although Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett had ringside seats and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was blocking someone's view near by. The impression, at least, was that the action in the casino had been brisker at the Ali-Holmes and Sugar Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns fights, and the high rollers' wardrobes have certainly been brighter. Holmes was an early 8-5 favorite, but the odds shortened to 7-5 with a surge of late Cooney bets...
...Lakers Celtics series will be something else Parrish-Jabbar, Nixon on Archibald, and my own personal favorite Jamaal Wilkes matched up against Larry Bird. It'll be a great series. Boston should take it five or six, though...
...Huskies' size advantage was most evident when they got five or six cracks at the basket, or when their 6-ft, 3-in center (she looked a lot talier) was looping in sky books reminiscent of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Home remarked after the game that it's tough to win a game "when you're giving up four or five inches underneath...
Breaks does have the occasional (and perhaps inevitable) excess, the overripe prose, the gimpy metaphor, the Jabbar-sized sentence. An example: "Indeed, Paxson, who was white, looked like the star of a new television sit-com about a healthy happy-go lucky midwestern college student who was always trying to borrow his parents' car and getting into trouble, but the kind of trouble that is easily rectified. (That is, no hard drugs.)" The book definitely suffers, too, for its lack of photographs, which would have helped in keeping the many names straight...
...Celtics did it again yesterday afternoon, limiting the Los Angeles Lakers to a paltry 14 fourth-quarter points to key a 98-96 victory. Kareem Abdul Jabbar scored 32 points and Jamaal Wilkes 29 for the Lakers in a losing effort. But the Celtics remain two games behind Philly in their division, as the Sixers squashed Seattle...