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FLORIDA was packed with seasonal celebrities last week-everyone from President Nixon and West German Chancellor Willy Brandt to Jimmy Hoffa and Moms Mabley. Hotel rooms in Miami were solidly booked with fans who had come to watch the Orange Bowl game as well as the playoff between the Miami Dolphins and the Baltimore Colts. The Sunny Palm Lodge, a nudist colony, reported a 25% increase in business over last year. Amid all the hoopla, the big political event of the week was the arrival in Miami of New York's newly Democratic Mayor John Lindsay, who announced that...
...even if Maryland fares poorly over the regular season, the team will have a reprieve in the form of the ACC playoff in March. Last year a North Carolina team that won the League title over a 14 game season lost it to South Carolina in a three game knockout tournament. Instead of going to the NCAA playoffs, where the other regular-season conference champions were, the Tarheels had to settle for the NIT at New York, which they won easily...
...Driesell had to resort to unpopular tactics to win big ballgames--he had his squad freeze the ball against playoff champion South Carolina last year to bring off a startling 31-30 upset at College Park--it was only to buy time for the 1971-72 season, when the Terrapins were going to fulfill the promise Driesell made shortly after he was hired--that Maryland would be the UCLA of the East...
...Crimson, after strong playoff shutouts of Southern Connecticut (5-0) and Brown (3-0) and a very impressive 4-1 win over the nation's fourth ranked team, Hartwick, in the Dec. 4 Eastern Championships, appeared on its way to reaching a peak in team performance for the Miami finals...
...victory by the Redskins gave them a 9-3-1 record and second place in the National Football Conference's (NFC) Eastern Division. The victory also clinched a playoff spot...