Word: postseason
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...name of decent football, no team from that division should be allowed to participate in the postseason. The Los Angeles Raiders, Denver Broncos and company are giving mediocrity a bad name. These teams are positively...
...last week). In edging out the New York Jets last week, 9-6, the Bills clinched the American Football Conference Eastern division championship, becoming the first team to secure a play-off berth this year. It was the earliest that an A.F.C. team had won a postseason slot since...
...only one brief spell in 1981 had they attained the No. 1 spot in the college rankings. Head coach Gerry Faust, who during his tenure from 1981 to 1985 racked up a lackluster 30-26-1 record, had let the Irish unravel. Once courted like a prom queen in postseason play, Notre Dame appeared in just two bowl games: Liberty (1983) and Aloha (1984). The team, it seemed, was fading from national prominence...
...national champions, on probation for three years and withdrew one of its 13 athletic scholarships. The reason: Kansas improperly spent some $1,200 to recruit an athlete who ended up not playing for the Jayhawks anyway. The most hurtful part of the N.C.A.A. action was its ban on postseason competition, which makes Kansas the first team to be unable to defend its title in the play-offs...
...Dodger Bulldog, who has worked almost half his team's innings in the postseason, now has allowed just three earned runs in his last 92 innings...