Word: playoff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...captain of the Boston Celtics, suddenly dropped to the floor while shooting baskets at a gymnasium at Brandeis University in suburban Waltham, Massachusetts; he was pronounced dead at a hospital 2 1/2hours later. His collapse had been foreshadowed three months earlier, when he passed out during an April 29 playoff game against the Charlotte Hornets. Lewis checked in to Boston's New England Baptist Hospital. A "dream team" of 12 cardiologists assembled by the Celtics' physician, Arnold Scheller, made a diagnosis of cardiomyopathy, an abnormal stretching or thickening of the heart that can cause it to beat erratically. The condition...
Selig is the ultimate symbol of what's wrong with baseball. He's a hypocrite of the first order, extolling the virtues of baseball's tradition while negotiating a plan to undo its sacred playoff system...
Hatch and Kennedy, for instance, are great friends who often share each others' company off the job. For loyal Democrats or Republicans, this "sleeping with the enemy" might engender the kind of betrayal felt by fans of the Phoenix Suns when they heard about Charles Barkley's playoff lunching with Michael Jordan. Well, no matter how nasty the Senators are on television, they are entitled to be people, too. In any case, they haven't been a pro team for 19 years...
Roller hockey, as it's called, was already a growth industry. But the Kings' breathless playoff victories have made it a retail bonanza. In Pasadena, my hometown, sporting goods stores reported record sales of sticks, pads and blades. Many removed the baseball and basket-ball equipment from store windows and replaced it with hockey pucks and jerseys...
...playoff game at Ohiri Field would determine who would advance to the NCAA Final Four next weekend, and it was simply too important a game for Harvard to lose...