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Formal Protest. The next event produced the high point of the low comedy. At the end of the second lap in the four-lap bicycle race, Buffalo Brave Forward Jim McMillian swung out too far on a turn and clipped Anderson's back tire. McMillian went sprawling onto the track (he was only slightly injured). The chain fell off Anderson's bike, forcing him to retire. Miffed, Anderson marched off to lodge a formal protest that was quickly disallowed...
Cosell, who had missed the accident (he was warming himself in an ABC truck), dashed into the cold in hot pursuit of Anderson and McMillian. "Hold on, Jimmy!" Cosell yelled to McMillian as the basketball player was being helped off the track, 'I've got to do an interview with you." Undaunted by the large crowd of fans and officials, Cosell plunged ahead with a post-crisis analysis while O.J. Simpson held his cigar...
Columbia is coming off a lost weekend on the road. Princeton destroyed the New Yorkers, 90-47, and Penn rolled to a 73-36 victory over the Lions. It has been a long time since Heyward Dotson and Jim McMillian graced University Gym and the Lions' only wins have been against equally hapless Cornell and City College...
When it comes to offensive striking power, Ernie is right. He is averaging a solid 17 points per game with the Braves, while feeding adroit passes to his teammates; with 8 assists per game, he is leading the league. With the help of Bob McAdoo and Jim McMillian, the Braves this season are winning almost as many as they are losing...
...favorites to hang on to their title. For the underdog Knicks, the match-ups posed a number of imponderables. Forward Dave DeBusschere figured to neutralize the rebounding muscle of Bill Bridges, but could Forward Bill Bradley and Guard Earl Monroe contain the faster, higher-scoring tandem of Jim McMillian and Gail Goodrich? Would Center Willis Reed, slowed by tendinitis, be able to pull Wilt Chamberlain away from the boards by shooting from the outside? And, in the most exciting confrontation of all, could Guard Walt Frazier outhustle Jerry West? "Between us," predicted Frazier, "it is going to be a battle...