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...billed as the rematch of the decade: the University of Houston, No. 1 -ranked college basketball team, against No. 2 U.C.L.A. in the semifinals of the N.C.A.A. championship at Los Angeles. Last year in the same N.C.A.A. round, U.C.L.A. whipped Houston by a score of 73-58 and went on to win the championship. Then, last January, Houston turned the tables with a startling 71-69 midseason upset that knocked the Bruins from the No. 1 ranking and smashed their 47-game winning streak. Now it was Houston with its own 32-game winning streak on the line, and U.C.L.A...
...Rematch? Mismatch was more like it. By game time, the odds makers had installed U.C.L.A. as an eight-point fa vorite on the strength of a tougher schedule and no losses since the Houston upset. But no one remotely expect ed anything like the slaughter that followed. Attacking from the first tipoff, Coach John Wooden's Bruins outran, outpassed, outshot, and outrebounded the Cougars. Final score: U.C.L.A. 101, Houston...
...next afternoon, using the rugby rules, the two teams played to a scoreless standoff. Boastful spectators attributed Harvard's successful adaptation to rugby to "Yankee ingenuity and aptitude." In a rematch the following year in Montreal, the Harvard team, sporting flashy new uniforms, trounced McGill soundly at the Canadians' own game...
...figured to be the most savage middleweight rematch since Zale and Graziano. Emile Griffith, the tough ex-street fighter from the Virgin Islands, had an elaborate revenge planned for Nino Benvenuti, the Italian fishmonger's son who took away his 160-lb. title last April. For starters, he was going to reshape Nino's roamin' nose. "I'm going to hit it and hit it and hit it," vowed Griffith. "I'm going to bend it. Then I'm going to knock him out." Bene, sighed Benvenuti, quaffing his Chianti...
...other-legally, at least-and so few punches connected that the referee called the fight a draw. The two judges voted for Emile-9 rounds to 5, with 1 even. By a split decision, Griffith got his crown back. The promoters instantly started beating the drums for another rematch...