Wikipedia:Wikifun/Round 13/Answers/Question 8

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[edit] Random guess

Since I have drawn a blank in finding anything to do with this (other than it may or may not have been part of the first Canada Games) I'll try a total guess.

Was the score 76-70 to Nova Scotia? 76-71? 82-50? 101-101? 0-0 (polar bear stopped play)?

Any chance of a hint? --Spondoolicks 12:14, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alberta 65 Nova Scotia 34

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I find this by searching Google using search string february 1967 "new york times" site:en.wikipedia.org. One of first ten pages returned by Google is ETAOIN SHRDLU where you will see embedded image as above.

EgbertSousé 14:36, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Damn! I even read this page recently. I wasn't paying enough attention. fetofs ^Hello! 17:30, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

65-34 --Quesotiotyo 16:01, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Answer...

You say something about women's basketball.. Well, first, in Canada, there has been one important league of basketball, the NBL, and it was a male national basketball league, it didn't even have those teams of Nova Scotia or Alberta, now...the New York Times didn't report it in 1967, first...because that was a matter of Canada, and Canadian Sports are foreign, not really concerning to the USA, and in any case, it would be in some international sports section, but the international section of the NYT was stopped in 1967, leaving no way to cover it, and now, supposing there was a real female canadian basketball league, why would a simple score be important to the New York Times, if it covers only:

A) Sports leagues of importance to the american audience B) Important scores

Was this a final? Or the final game of a women's league? NO! There was not even such a women's league for then...the male league "rose from the ashes of the World Basketball League" as the article NBL follows, so the female didn't even rose! This question has no factual answer, other than this.