NBA Playoffs: Halfway Home In The Conference Finals

The 1978 Philadelphia 76ers were looking to take the final step. After acquiring Julius “Dr. J’ Erving in 1977, the Sixers reached the NBA Finals and won the first two games. Losing the next four left a sour taste in their mouth. After a tumultuous start to the ’78 season, Philadelphia reached the playoffs in […]

The Washington Bullets had made two recent trips to the NBA Finals, in 1971 and 1975 respectively. But they hadn’t yet won a title–in fact, they hadn’t even won a game in the Finals, being swept out both times. The 1978 Washington Bullets weren’t as good as their ’71 and ’75 predecessors during the regular […]

By 1973, Al McGuire had Marquette basketball settled into a pattern which was mostly good, with a bit of a downside. McGuire churned out nationally competitive teams, won high-profile regular season battles and was a regular in an NCAA Tournament that then invited just 25 teams. He would successfully advance in the NCAA bracket. But […]

Florida football was riding high in 2009. The last three seasons had seen Urban Meyer’s program win a national title in 2006, Tim Tebow capture the Heisman Trophy in 2007 and then win another national championship in 2008. The 2009 Florida Gators played to these standards—except for one showdown game that left them short of […]