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What NBA center is a vegetarian? What NBA center wears goggles? What do they have in common? (Former UCLA stars Bill Walton and Kareem Abdul Jabbar...
...recognize the progress of a competing country. Granted, the officiating at the conclusion of the game left much to be desired, but the Russians played us evenly throughout the contest. Interspersed with complaints about the officiating were proud boasts that "If we'd only had our good players like Walton there, we would have creamed them." My question is why people fail to notice and object to the ugly incentives the players qualified to participate in such a contest face. It is only a matter of pride for America to win the Olympic championship, but a lot of money...
...brother who wants to quit the local high school because Truckie is coming back to it ("you'll be the only student with wrinkles"), and the death of his little sister's favorite pet, Jonathan Livingston Duck. Truckie's method of handling all this would make Walton's mountain collapse. He brawls lustily with his father, and tricks his brother (Mark Hamill) into a return to scholarship. Instead of giving the distraught little girl a homely homily on mortality, he breaks her grief with a tall story. "Poor Ducky," she says, pulling herself together...
Marvin Barnes led the list of names in the post-Walton round of the National Basketball Association's collegiate draft yesterday, as the 6 ft. 9 in. Providence College center was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers...
...76ers, who finished with the worst record in the league, lost the coin toss for the first draft choice to the Portland Trailblazers, and to no one's surprise, Portland took the highly sought-after Bill Walton of UCLA. The Trailblazers actually have already signed the Briun kingpin to a five-year contract for more than $2 million...