Word: ncaas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Celtics basketball is an organized religion, with 13 green-and-white icons hanging from the Garden roof and a list of saints, identified only by the kelly-green number that they once wore, dangling from the skylights. And in this dimlylit, age-crusted catacomb, the faithful wait for the NCAA to part with a titanic saviour, someone with arms long enough and stats big enough to rescue the team. After all, except for the last few years the Celtics have always been basketball's chosen people: you can forgive their fans for hoping...
...NCAA basketball all-american who played a good shortstop...
...great power forward for the '74 NCAA champ NC State Wolfpack, the big guy is a bullpen artist still active today...
Tiger Jay Lapidus, probably the country's best college player and the tournament's number one seed, nudged out Harvard's Don Pompan, seeded second, in the "A" finals, 6-2, 7-6. Both players qualified for the fall NCAA tennis championship...
Some people say no. Like NCAA director Bill Flynn, who doubles as athletic director over at Boston College. Although he admits "I don't know much about it," Flynn has an opinion. Equal opportunity does not mean equal spending. He offers an analogy. "You don't say, 'You have to spend as much on men nurses as women nurses.'" Like our own football coach, Joe Restic. "Once you totally equalize it, you're not going to have a football program." He continues, "If you expect a sport to produce revenue, you can't cut back on the money for that...