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...defray operating costs. After dismal performances in earlier years, the Jazz this past season had its best record ever (45-37), won the Midwest division, and made it to the Western division : semifinals before being defeated by Phoenix. That marked the club's first appearance in a postseason playoff. Last week Jazz officials foresaw no difficulty in obtaining approval for the sale from the N.B.A.'s board of governors...
...shot making at Winged Foot last week was only remarkable, the towel waving memorable. Fuzzy Zoeller signaled mock surrender to Greg Norman at the fieriest moment of a U.S. Open Sunday, and when the heat was off in their 18-hole playoff the following day, Norman waved back. Golf may be "a rude game," as Zoeller says, but golfers almost unfailingly display a grace under pressure that used to be the definition of heroism. From Yankee Stadium to Wimbledon, the phrase has pretty much abandoned sport...
...temperament of Frank Urban Zoeller, 32, who whistles while he plays. Or that an eight-stroke drubbing was casually accepted by Norman, 29, a hatchet-faced Australian able to hit the ball prodigious distances in unpredictable directions. "I needed something special. It never happened," he said after the playoff. "I feel disappointed and hollow." While it is the nature of contests that today's defeat can make yesterday's victory seem meaningless, neither a 160-yd., 6-iron shot into the 18th grandstand nor a 40-ft. putt into the 72nd hole will ever leave Norman completely...
...relatively alone, Irwin led with three sub-par rounds before collapsing spectacularly under the combined weight of Winged Foot's patient vengeance and a second straight day of Zoeller's rollicking gallery. These days a golfer unafraid to smile is likely to be followed anywhere. Before the playoff, Zoeller said, "I kept hearing people say, 'Don't let the money out of the country.' Hell, it's only going to Orlando." Norman recently moved there...
Larry Bird scored 32 points, Dennis Johnson 26 and Kevin McHale 24, and the Boston Celtics rolled another big early lead to a playoff victory last night at the Boston Garden, routing the Milwaukee Bucks. 125-110, for a 2-0 lead in the showdown for the National Basketball Association's Eastern Conference championship...