Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!cepu!ucla-cs!lor From: lor@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sport.football Subject: Re: Richardson's rankings, tie-breakers, etc. Message-ID: <2619@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 14:54:52 EST Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.2619 Posted: Wed Dec 5 14:54:52 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Dec-84 06:27:25 EST References: <77@decwrl.UUCP> <1565@qubix.UUCP> Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 26 > > That inspires a trivia question - when was the last time a major sport > > championship (baseball, football, basketball, hockey) featured two opponents > > from the Northeast (for the sake of argument, let's say Penn., NJ, NY, and > > New England)? > > Unless you include Maryland (the Orioles), it goes a LONG way back. > -- > The Ice Floe of Larry Bickford That doesn't go a LONG way back. The last time was the 1980 Stanley Cup Final: NY Islanders beat Philadelphia in six. Nowadays, we will never see a hockey or basketball game played between two teams in the same region. The NBA championship is played between the Eastern Conference and the Western Conference, so is the NHL. -- Eddy Lor ...!ucbvax!ucla-cs!lor lor@ucla-locus.arpa