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...against Chicago is an event for any team, particularly for one that will face Chicago in the first round if it manages to hang on to the last playoff spot in the division...
...time has come, your honor. This year, the season of 1997, the Seattle Mariners are beginning a period that will turn the annals of Seattle sports history on its ear. Gone are the days of Kingdome attendance falling under 10,000. Gone are the playoff months spent watching the 'real' teams battle it out." Somewhere the theme from 'Rocky' has begun playing, slowly increasing in volume... "Two years ago the Mariners' first playoff run gave the city a newfound yearning for the hardware, the Kingdome was transformed from a concrete mausoleum into a thundering homefield advantage...
Their most obvious connection, of course, is what they have done for the game of golf. In the American history of the sport, there have been four popular bookmarks: Francis Ouimet, the 20-year-old amateur who defeated British greats Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in a playoff for the 1913 U.S. Open in Brookline, Massachusetts; Bobby Jones, whose 1930 Grand Slam earned him a ticker-tape parade in New York City; Palmer, who teamed with television to bring golf millions of new fans; and Woods, whose galleries are not only larger than anyone else's but considerably younger...
...familiar list of offenses goes on: the post-season games broadcast late at night, feeding network television with ratings but depriving a new generation of baseball memories, the continuing labor disputes that perpetually threaten to shut the game down again and the wild card playoff system that perverted the integrity of the regular season for a few extra bucks...
Chicago has cruised through its first three playoff rounds, 3-0 over Cleveland and 4-1 over the Pistons (Grant Hill got nice...