Word: madison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...series now moves to Madison Square Garden for the third and fourth games, and it is anybody's guess whether it will return to Boston. The Bruins, who won the Stanley Cup in 1970, were typically effective shackling New York's breakout play, resorting to controlled, and sometimes marginally controlled, violence...
...Absence by Madison Janes...
...most successful in jarring our conceptions. He tells us that sports became big business to maintain a profit. Athletic corporations frantically searched for new markets in the face of spiralling costs, wage and labor disputes, and a dollar squeeze. In the process, Durso thinks, sports businesses like Madison Square Garden, the owners of a racetrack, a basketball and hockey team, an ice show, and boxing interests, fomented a revolution which saw money supplant entertainment as professional sport's raison d'etre...
...commercial is really just a peculiar twist to Madison Avenue's increasingly tiresome obsession with nostalgia. Ole Bob, now 54, actually opens with his patented "Say, kids" routine, which is followed by a memory-jangling jingle, "It's Riunite time, it's Riunite wine . . ." Then Buffalo zeroes in on his old fans. "Yes, sir, this is your old buddy, Buffalo Bob. You know, you were little kids when you watched me on television, and all you were allowed to drink back then was milk. But now you're old enough to enjoy a little wine, right...
...practices what he preaches. When he quit the gospel big top to build himself a university (TIME, Feb. 7), Roberts set his heart on a national basketball championship. Lo, last week there was Oral Roberts University in the quarter-finals of the National Invitation Tournament at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. During the game between O.R.U. and St. John's University, St. John's star Mel Davis had to be carried off the courts with torn tendons in his right knee. Good Samaritan Roberts strode into the St. John's dressing room to offer a three...