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DIED. HELEN JACOBS, 88, stout-hearted tennis player who kept swinging year after upsetting year in her lopsided rivalry with Helen Wills Moody; in East Hampton, N.Y. Jacobs won nine Grand Slam titles, many in doubles. In 11 much hyped face-offs, "Helen the Second" survived Moody's baseline drives only once...
...much. A major misconception of televised sport is that a long play-off series delivers a slam dunk of advertising dollars. In the case of the N.B.A., 85% of the ads are sold in advance as a four-year package. Only 15% of the ads are sold after it is established that extra games prove necessary--and often the leftover spots aren't worth that much more...
...knew that UCLA wasn't respecting us and that I could key in on that," Hogan said. "Every hitter came up trying to hit a grand slam with no one on base...
...When you are highly recruited, especially in the South, and you choose to go to an Ivy League school, people completely slam your decision," says Black, a Georgia native who was also heavily recruited. "Every time I go home, people still ask me why I came to Harvard, and she deals with the same thing...
Then in the deciding game, Albers blew a tense game open with a second-inning grand slam, then added a single and double later...