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...Jersey Nets won their first NBA playoff came a 116-101 surprise over the 76ers in Philadelphia Buck Williams scored 25 points and the Nets held center Moses Malone to no second half held goals in the playoff opener...
Saturday at Rutgers, the Harvard men's volleyball team won its regional playoff and advanced to the Final Four of the East...
...good reason. No sport lets go of champions easily, but in golf the replacements have been singularly unsatisfying: too blond, too bland and too many. On the P.G.A. tour, young strangers are kept in such supply that a different one seems to win every week, usually in a playoff. They all swing the same way-correctly. Their skills are undeniable. They appear able to do anything on a golf course except enjoy each other's company...
...forward line of Phillips, Jeffrey McGuire, and Brian O'Neil paced the freshman offense in the playoff games, scoring as many as five goals in a game. Other key players included Chris Sweeney, Gregory Dayton, Robert Carey, and Kevin McMahon. The team informally elected defenseman Rex Thors the Most Valuable Player of the finals...
...would have taken a Harvard victory and Princeton and Cornell losses on Saturday just to set up a three-way playoff for the title...