Word: portland
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Dubbed "Cambridge Bill" by the Boston sports media because he is the first local pro athlete in many years to live in Cambridge, the former UCLA and Portland Trail Blazers star is considered by many hoop fans to have been at his peak the best center ever in basketball...
After a stellar career at UCLA, Walton went on to join the Portland Trailblazers, and led that team to its only World Championship on June 5, 1977. But injuries have since plagued Walton, and he has not played for a competitive team since his 1978 Trailblazer season...
...least, he didn't seem entirely comfortable in front of 10,000 newly made fans in Portland, Me., last Monday. He let them applaud for five minutes at a stretch before proceeding with the songs. He called one of them a "jerk" for throwing a potentially lethal t-shirt at him as he started "Money For Nothing." And, with the exception of a couple minutes of premeditated camp, he generally did his best to ignore the lot of them...
...best compliment you can give Straits is that they don't make any bad mistakes, their worst insult is that they don't make any good ones either. Nothing in the Portland show deviated in any significant way from the live album, Alchemy, recorded two years ago, except that the band had nine more songs from which to choose. Because Knopfler strives for perfection in the studio--and because he succeeds half the time--he tries to make his live songs sound like very loud copies of the songs on record--which he succeeds at almost all the time. Come...
...Swimming Coach Joe Bernal has seven experienced swimmers joining his squad: backstroker Roland Wagner, the Swiss national champion; Olympic qualifier Scott Hoy from Australia; sprinters Keith Kaplan of Mattapan, N.J., and Bob Morrison of Portland, Ind.; Paul Ryder, an all-around swimmer from Servana Park, Md.; distance swimmer Mike Caverly of Lacadia, Ca.; and Robert Perkins, a backstroker from Middlebrook...