Word: playoffs
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March 3-4: Playoff time, and RPI's intown. Must mean Young is due for another hattrick...
...brother, Scott--who is actually a bit smaller than his 6-ft., 1-in., 195-1b. "little" brother--is hoping his senior season will be injury-free. Scott has suffered fom collarbone and wrist injuries the past two years and has yet to play in an NCAA playoff game...
Philadelphia must depend on sharp-shooter Hersey Hawkins and mouth-shooter Charles Barkley for its playoff hopes to be realized. For Washington, only Jeff Malone deserves mention in any worthwhile publication. And New Jersey, well, minus Buck Williams and with problem-children Sam Bowie and Joe Barry Carroll, Coach Bill Fitch will probably be hoping by January that he was back coaching in the Garden. Here's hoping Mookie Blaylock can keep the fans laughing in the Meadowlands, and not because of his play...
...plus wins this season. B.J. Armstrong and Stacey King give depth to an always-explosive Chicago team. And then there's number 23, whoever he is. A healthy. Kevin Willis gives the Hawks' Moses Malone some help on the frontline, and Cleveland has enough talent to be a playoff team, but needs a couple more years to be a dangerous team in the playoffs. Milwaukee and Indiana would do better to unload their rosters and apply for expansion franchises at this point and time...
After a spate of early-season injuries, the A's went into this week's games healthy and in the hitting groove. Their musclemen, designated hitter Dave Parker and the Bash Brothers -- first baseman Mark McGwire and rightfielder Jose Canseco -- each homered at least once in the playoff series against Toronto. Canseco's was a tape-measure job estimated by an IBM computer at 480 ft. Nobody seemed more impressed than Jose himself telling callers on his personal hot line, (900) 234-JOSE, "I mean, this was one mammoth home run, - and you really enjoy hitting those types. I mean...