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...playoff series short of an Ivy League title; because this year's trip to the tournament ran through Princeton, the same team that beat Harvard in last season's Ivy Championship series...
...planning to take the Fifth when he was corralled in the hallway and offered immunity by Smaltz's team. It's a deal, replied the astonished Tyson. For two days he testified about his few contacts with Espy and the small favors, like tickets to a Dallas Cowboys playoff game, he provided for him. Smaltz, who has made many enemies during his investigation, may have realized that he could not clip the Chicken King, say some of the lawyers with a stake in the case, and seems resigned to sacrificing him in a final lunge at Espy. He may also...
...record books--it just wasn't the kind of record the NEW YORK KNICKS were looking to set. Game 5 of a best-of-seven playoff series between the Knicks and the MIAMI HEAT turned into a sport that closely resembled professional wrestling. The b-ball brawlers were an unlikely duo: the Knicks' Bible-toting Charlie Ward and the Heat's P.J. Brown, winner of the league's citizenship award. Near the end of the game, Ward backed into Brown, almost upending him. Brown then hooked an arm around Ward's waist, flipped him as if he were a cheerleader...
...YORK: Finally speaking for himself after NBC confirmed that he will broadcast Saturday?s NBA playoff game between Chicago and Miami, Sportscaster Marv Albert maintained that he did not assault a woman in Washington, D.C. "In light of the substance and source of the allegations that have surfaced in the last 48 hours," he said, "I would like to reassert my innocence and reiterate that all the charges against me are false." Albert faced the press hours after reports surfaced that his alleged victim is facing trial on charges that she threatened to kill a former boyfriend when he planned...
...commissioner David Stern had complete authority to hand down the suspensions. The players claimed the NBA's decision to suspend violated the league's collective bargaining agreement, which mandates that such a rule must be negotiated with the Players' Union. The ruling, which upholds the harshest suspension in NBA playoff history, left the Knicks without the services of Patrick Ewing and Allen Houston in Game 6 of the playoffs Friday in New York. Larry Johnson and John Starks will serve their suspensions either in Game 7 or Game 1 against the Bulls. Both Charlie Ward and P.J. Brown, who were...