This Week in Sports BASEBALL The divorce season will hit its peak after this week as professional sports reaches its congested best (or worst). Get your beer early as the "World Serious" starts, football continues its longest season ever, and, believe it or not, both pro hockey and pro basketball seasons get underway. The beloved 'U' is not devoid of activity either, as play occurs in four different sports. The baseball season climaxes (and none too soon) as the defending World Champion New York Yankees take on the Los Angeles Dodgers in a repeat of last year's Series. The battle is the difference in philosophies between the two clubs. The Yankees' skipper Bob Lemon returns to Series action after winning it in 1948 with his first love, the Cleveland Indians, as one of the best pitchers in the league. Now some want him named the best manager after New York's remarkable comeback to grab the pennant from the Red Sox. The Yankees have just as much fun fighting off the field as on it, but if anyone is noted for climaxing in October, it's Reginald Jackson. On the other hand, Tommy "Loveable" Lasorda guides his Dodgers in a Hollywood atmosphere. Lasorda, who is so nice they'll probably make a movie about him someday, just radiates Dodger Blue. The Series starts. tonight with Channel 4 beginning its broadcast at 8:00 for those of you who don't have tickets. FOOTBALL The football scene is naturally dominated by the invasion of the boys from East Lansing this Saturday. There will be no letdown this weekend as the Wolverines and the Spartans fight for the coveted Paul Bunyan - Governor of Michigan Trophy. Michigan has kept the prize in its trophy case since after the 1969 game, the last year that MSU won it and also Bo Schembechler's first year. State leads the series 13-12, but Bo can even it up as Michigan also goes after its 600th win in the history of its football program. On the pro scene, the Lions play the Falcons at Atlanta. So much for- them. In the big game of the week, the Cleveland Browns will beat the Steelers by three in the rematch of the Blue Collar Bowl. OTHER PRO SPORTS The Red Wings face off against St. Louis Wednesday night in Detroit, where they will also skate against Philadelphia on Friday evening. Aggressive hockey is back in town if you believe those Batman spinoff commercials on TV. The Pistons will introduce their new big mouth in their new big playpen as they tip off the season Friday night against the hapless New Jersey Nets in the Silverdome under coach Dick Vitale. Vitale has done a lot of talking and will as long as anyone is within earshot. How's your stomach, Dick? MICHIGAN SPOR TS The women's field hockey team puts its 2-2 record on the line three times this week, beginning this afternoon at 3:00 against the Falcons of Bowling. Green at Ferry Field. The women take to the road for the rest of the week for Thursday's game at Central Michigan and Saturday's contest at Eastern Michigan. Sandy Vong's spikers also travel to Kalamazoo as the women's volleyball team takes on Central this afternoon. Completing the long list of traveling Wolverines, the cross country team won't start their longest jaunt until they arrive in East Lansing for Friday's Michigan Dual 10,000 meter run. Intramural softball playoffs draw toward an end this week, just in time for the touch football season to start - guess when? - this week. If you have enough beer money for all of this week's sports, then I'm on n'y way to invest in Anheuser-Busch stock. The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, October 10, 1978-Page1- WEBSTER AND ARCHIBALD JOIN DIVISION Champion Bulletsface sti battle By BILLY NEFF It was only four months ago but can you remember which team won the NBA championship? The Philadelphia 76ers. Nope, I remember now; it was the Portland Trailblazers. Guess again. The Los Angeles Lakers? These guesses all happen to be wrong. The 1978 NBA champions were the Washington Bullets and coach Dick Motta. Even though they stole the show last year, at best they can be picked for second in their own division this season, especially since they have been added to the talent-laden Atlantic Division. WASHINGTON'S chief competitor will be its opponent in the playoff semifinals last year, the expensive Philadelphia 76ers. Not too far behind are the New York Knicks with recent acquisition Marvin Webster and the omnipresent Boston Celtics and their additions Nate "Tiny" Archibald and Billy Knight. Far behind are the New Jersey Nets, with co-rookie-of-the-year Bernard King. Over the summer, the 76ers tried to change their label from the best talent money can buy to the best team by ob- taining all-star forward Bobby Jones from the Denver Nuggets for high scoring forward George McGinnis. McGinnis never seemed to fit in op- posite the famous doctor, Julius Erving at forward. Many critics even placed the blame on McGinnis, "George (McGinnis) needs to be the center of attention and he's got to have the ball," said Bullet coach Motta. "Weith the 76ers, you should get the ball to Julius Erving 40 per cent of the time and Doug Collins probably should get it 30 per cent of the time," continued Motta. NOW WITH Jones, who doesn't need the ball to perform well, the 76ers defense will be vastly improved as will the heretofore missing concept of team play. If the Sixers can get the idea of team play across -to Lloyd Free and Darryl Dawkins, the championship will be theirs. The Sixers still have unheralded Caldwell Jones at center and the fabulous Erving at forward. .In the backcourt, Henry Bibby complements all-star guard Doug Collins fairly well. See more sports on pages 12-13 And on the bench, Philly has possibly the best third forward around in Steve Mix. The Sixers should have little trouble capturing the division but come playoff time, veteran teams like the Bullets pose trouble. Leading the way for the world champions is the "Big E", Elvin Hayes, who excelled in the playoffs last year. Neff predicts: 1. Philadelphia 2. Washington 3. New York 4. Boston 5. New Jersey' Charles Johnson or Larry Wright. Super sub Mitch Kupchak leads an im- pressive Bullet bench that includes top draftees Roger Phegley and DePaul's Dave Corzine. The other franchise that is attem- ptimg to buy a championship is the Knicks, owned by Gulf and Western Company. That conglomerate just pur- chased the services of maybe the premier center in basketball in Marvin Webster. Webster almost led Seattle to the NBA title last year. THE ADDITION of Webster enables offensive machine Bob McAdoo to move to forward. At the other forward will probably be Jim McMillain, with Spencer Haywood coming off the ben- ch. Harried coach Willis Reed has a very unsettled situation at guard as the Knicks do not wish to sign dazzling per- former EarlMonroe. This leaves their top draft choice from Montana, Michael Richardson, and Minnesota's Ray Williams to lead the way. Jim Cleamons and Glen Gondrezick will back up these youngsters. Pressing all three of these teams should be the resurging Boston Celtics. The Celtics, in a complicated move, swapped owners during the summer. In this deal, a seven-player swap was worked out with Archibald, Knight and Marvin Barnes coming to the Celtics for Kevin Kunnert, Sidney Wicks, Ker- mit Washington and top draft pick, Freeman Williams. HOWEVER, the Celtics will never be the same since John "Hondo" Havlicek has retired. But Dave Cowens returns to man the middle. Knight, meanwhile, will be paired with either Barnes, who already didn't show up for a gane, or Cedric "Cornbread" Maxwell. Max- well, you might remember, destroyed Michigan in the NCAA playoffs a couple of years ago. At guard, Jo Jo White and Archibald are sujpported by Earl Tatum and Don Chaney. Finally, there are the cellar dwellers, the New Jersey Nets. The Nets should battle it out with the San Diego Clippers, for the worst'record this campaign. The Nets do have some good guards in recent acquisition Eric Money, top draft pick Winford Boynes and high scoring John Williamson. Bernard King is an excellent offensive forward but that is pretty much the story for Kev4 Loughery and his woeful bunch. DENTISTS The Air Force Dental Corps has immediate openings in the fol lowing dental specialties: Pros- thodontics, Periodontics, .and, Endodontics. Starting salaries and entry grade are commensurate with experience and postgraduate. education. If you have prior mili- tary service or are under 35 years old, investigate this outstanding career opportunity. 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