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That put Tony in a sudden-death playoff with Arnold Palmer, a beer man. Sudden death is hardly the word. Suicide is a better term: out of 19 playoffs in his career, Palmer has won twelve. But Tony is a brinkman too; it makes the bubbly taste all the better. On the first hole, a 398-yard par-four, he watched Palmer smack his drive over a creek all the way to the base of the elevated green. Briefly, Lema fingered the "safe" club-a No. 4 iron. Then he reached for a driver too. "I might as well...
...Boston wins championship playoff...
...Boston Celtics: their eighth straight National Basketball Association Eastern Division title, beating the Cincinnati Royals 109-95 in the deciding game at Boston. The Royals, who won seven out of twelve regular-season games from the Celtics, managed only one victory in the best-of-seven playoff...
Some ten points below the leaders, Toronto and Detroit have sewed up the other two Stanley Cup Playoff berths. New York, after making a run at the Red Wings in January, has collapsed back to fifth place. The home-town Bruins are mired in their customary last-place bog, as they have been all year...
...final, Poor took a 14-13 lead before Niederhoffer tied the game; the Amherst star called for a sudden death playoff but regretted it quickly when Niederhoffer's perfectly hit hard serve bounced into a corner and rolled out on the floor...