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...precisely what this twisted baseball season needed. Just when fans thought the game would never be the same, when the bogus second-season pennant races were making a mockery of won-lost records, when the strike-broken season had robbed every asterisked statistic of meaning, New York Yankee Principal Owner George Steinbrenner returned the national pastime to normal: he fired his manager. Steinbrenner changes managers about as often as most fans change underwear, though he does it with more anguish and bigger headlines. The latest victim was Gene Michael, the eighth Yankee manager in as many years to succumb...
...upstart Rockets, who finished the regular season with a sub-, 500 won-lost mark, have proved surprisingly consistent in eliminating last year's winners, the Los Angeles Lakers, the potent San Antonio Spurs and the persistent K.C. Kings...
...League title. The squad abounds with good, young wrestlers, symbolized by the election of two sophomores, co-captains Jim Phills and Paul Weiderman (on leave for the past year). Sophomores Phills, McNerney, freshman Rick Beller and Fritz Campbell finished the season with the top four individual won-lost records, emerging as the most promising underclassmen on the team...
Saturday, Yale took the field knowing it had to confront a Harvard team sporting a 7-2 won-lost mark including a dazzling upset of Army, an impressive defense with a knack for the big play, and an offense which, while characterized by unevenness, seemed latently lethal...
This year, the story is different. The Crimson boasts an impressive 6-2 won-lost record (3-2 Ivies) including victories over Army and William & Mary--two teams rated superior in pre-game prognostications. More important, the gridders retain a chance to share the Ivy crown for the first time since 1975, when they won it outright on a last-minute Mike Lynch field goal at Yale...