Esposito brother clash is likely in hockey playoffs
NEW YORK (UPI)—With the Niekro brothers, there's no question about it. Blood is thicker than water.
The Esposito brothers go along with that too up to a point. When it begins interfering with business . . . well . . . that could be the point.
Tony Esposito, as practically everybody knows, is the Chicago Black Hawks' goalie. He's good. So good, he set a National Hockey League record this season with 15 shutouts. Tony's older brother, Phil, centers for the Boston Bruins and he's good also. He won the league scoring title a year ago and would've won it again this year if it wasn't for an unbelievable thing. The unbelievable thing's name is Bobby Orr.
Phil Niekro does the heavy duty for that other brother combination. He won 25 games for Atlanta last year and is being counted on
for about the same number this year. His kid brother, Joe, pitches for Detroit now and that doesn't create any problem, but there was a minor one the last couple of years because Joe was with the Chicago Cubs and San Diego Padres and the two Niekro boys simply said they didn't want to pitch against each other.
"I don't believe in that," says Tony Esposito. "If you're a professional, you're a professional. You go out and do what you have to even if your brother does happen to play for the other club. Phil and I are close. Very close. We get together after the game and discuss a lot of things. Even things about hockey. If he feels I'm doing something wrong he'll tell me. When we're out on the ice though, that's different."
The chances are good the Esposito brothers will be going up against one another soon in the
Archibald guides South to title in all-star meet
HONOLULU (UPI)—When it was announced that Pete Maravich and Rick Mount wouldn't play in the Aloha Basketball Classic, the promoters winced because suddenly they were without a major drawing card.
They hadn't counted on Nate Archibald.
The 5-foot-11 Texas jackrabbit put on a Maravich-style shooting-dribbling-passing show to lead the South team to the championship with three straight victories, including a 127-100 rout of the East in Saturday night's title game.
Archibald, one of the smallest men in the four-team college allstar tournament, scored 23, 51 and
48 points in South's three wins.
Largely because of him the attendance jumped from 3,700 Thursday to 5,500 Friday and to a full house of 7,450 Saturday.
Third place in the round robin event went to the West team with a 110-103 win over the Midwest.
Archibald, a University of Texas-El Paso star who was drafted by Dallas of the American Basketball Association, was named the tournament's outstanding player. No one else even came close.
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With him on the all-tourney squad were guardmate Joe Hamilton of North Texas State, also drafted by Dallas of the ABA; Jim McMillian of Columbia, Seabern Hill of Arizona State and Dave Cowens of Florida State.
Most of the proceeds from the second annual event go to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
Stanley Cup playoffs.
Tony Esposito is especially good. He seems to know precisely when to make his play. Even against his own brother,
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