Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Innovators have loaded the game with enough gimrnicks to make it sometimes unrecognizable. The championship series in World Team Tennis, won last week by the Pittsburgh Triangles, was played on a court without white lines. Each section was a different color-from brown to blue. Scorekeeping can be perplexing, particularly when it comes to tie breakers. This year Forest Hills has dropped the sudden-death tie breaker, but the replacement, a twelve-point tie breaker in which the winner must beat his opponent by two points, could go on even longer than the set it is supposed to shorten...
...College Coalition, a Washington-based group representing half the nation's 140 women's colleges, enrollment is up 3% over last year. More significant, applications are up a healthy 7%. At some schools, among them Marymount Manhattan College in New York City, Chatham College in Pittsburgh and St. Joseph College in West Hartford, Conn., applications are nearly 50% ahead of last year...
...like Gregory Michael Luzinski, 24, of the Philadelphia Phillies. Called "Bull" in deference to his taurine power, Luzinski leads the National League in home runs, runs batted in, 26 and 88 respectively last week, and bullying pitchers. That parlay keeps the Phillies winning and within striking distance of the Pittsburgh Pirates. It also has Phillies fans planning for the playoffs...
...armada steamed into Pittsburgh last week and won two of three games from the first-place Pirates. The Bull and the Phils have finally arrived, says Relief Pitcher Tug McGraw. Resurrecting a battle cry he sounded when the Mets charged to the 1973 pennant, he tells skeptics, "You gotta believe...
...game pitted the college graduates against last year's Super Bowl champs, the Pittsburgh Steelers. The future pros led after the first half, 14.7, until Pittsburgh made its expected comeback and won the game...