Word: play-off
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...Boston Celtics overcame injuries, a sparkling performance by Walt Frazier, and New York's Madison Square Garden crowd to score an upset 110-100 victory over the New York Knicks last night to even their play-off series at three games apiece...
...that is expected to spend the better part of a decade trying to "expand" an assortment of castoffs and apprentices into a respectable team. Not in Buffalo, however. In only their third year in the National Hockey League, the Buffalo Sabres have a chance to win a Stanley Cup play-off berth. There are three main reasons: Gilbert Perreault, Richard Martin and Rene Robert. Together they make up what Buffalo hockey fans call the "French Connection," the most formidable young line in the N.H.L...
...this could be Harvard's year. If the sophomores produce as expected during the season, and the defense rises to the test in play-off hockey. Harvard will be the number one team in the Fast and perhaps in the nation as well...
...football has been a bettor's nightmare. After yet another round of upsets last week, the Minnesota Vikings and Baltimore Colts, both play-off participants last season, were in last place with a woeful total of only three victories in twelve games. Meanwhile, the surprising Green Bay Packers, dead last in their division last year, are now in a first-place tie with the Detroit Lions. As Joe Willie Namath might have said last week, after he threw a desperation pass that a Colt defender bounced volleyball fashion into the arms of Jet Receiver Eddie Bell...
...started the series with a major handicap. They had lost Slugger Reggie Jackson (25 home runs in 1972) in the final play-off game against the Tigers when he severely ruptured a hamstring muscle while sliding into home plate. Enter Catcher Gene Tenace (five home runs in 1972), who began the season on the bench and only won his job from Dave Duncan in the past couple of months. Tenace quickly silenced the sanguinary Reds fans in the opener, lashing home runs in his first two trips to the plate to set a new World Series record. Oakland managed only...