Searching for context, a golfer and a basketball team found something better than winning last week. Curtis Strange and the Los Angeles Lakers were each playing for history; their opponents, Nick Faldo and the Detroit Pistons, were seeking only national championships. The results were rather wonderful.
Almost at the moment that Strange was getting up and down out of a sand trap, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was doing much the same thing under a basket, to extend both ordeals an extra day. "I don't object to a longer season," ! Abdul-Jabbar says reasonably. "But I don't think we should be competing with Wimbledon."
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