Word: playoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sullivan and Ripley will combine at first doubles to try to put down the Tiger combination of Filgnthen and Williams. Niederholder and lamon are expected to play in the send spot, and a playoff, will decide the third and fourth positions...
They began even before the summer ended; they dribbled their way all through the winter, and last week, as spring came north once more, they were still at it. The oversized pros of the National Basketball Association were playing overtime,as they went through the motions of a championship playoff that may well run on almost till Easter. Months ago, the long schedule made clear that the Boston Celtics are easily the class of the league (TIME, Dec. 22), the best at the game's swift art of dunking baskets while elbows dig and feet flail and the referee...
...last week, as the Celtics beat back the Philadelphia Warriors in the Eastern Division playoff, and the Los Angeles Lakers toppled the Detroit Pistons in the Western Division, even the pros seemed a little tired of it all. Contact on the court came often and carelessly; the fouls were no longer subtle. In one game, the Celtics' defensive specialist Bill Russell seemed determined to stomp the opposition down (see cut). Pile-ups under the basket were alive with flying elbows. Tempers flared, and the Celtics' Sam Jones (6 ft. 4 in.) picked up a photographer's stool...
...money in the San Diego Open, debated quitting the tour before the Bing Crosby tournament. But to Ford, the rugged courses and trying weather (rain, sleet, snow, hail, 40-m.p.h. winds) of California's Monterey Peninsula proved peculiarly hospitable. On the first hole of a sudden-death playoff with chunky Joe Campbell, Ford collected the winner's purse...
...National Collegiate Athletic Association hockey tournament is a playoff for the national championship between the top two college teams in the East and in the West at the end of every season. Because the tournament is NCAA-sponsored, it is exempted from the Ivy League's ban on post-season athletic contests...