World Team Tennis debut on Channel 9 in 1976
TV preview notes Channel 9 will air 18 weeks of World Team Tennis starting Sunday night with taped San Diego vs Hawaii highlights and live San Diego vs Los Angeles Strings. The package features top male and female stars, four live two hour telecasts, and two announcers Chick Hearn and Vic Braden.
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San Diego- Hawaii
San Diego
Los Angeles Strings
World Ten
WIT
Laker
Chick Hearn
Vic Braden
Tharn
Lakers
Notre Dame
Chris Evert
CIF gym playoff open with Lancers top seed hosts Mari na
Southern Section high schools tilt kicks off with Lancers hosting Marina as Millikan visits EL Rancho and Wilson travels to Paris. Moore League action centers on tight race with Lakewood and Millikan at home and Wilson away as teams chase triangular finals.
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Lakewood
Millikan
Wilson
Lancers
Marina
EL Rancho
Don
Probst
Tony Peck
Morst Sturm
Ralph Gutierrez
Milikan
Matt Livingston
Rams
Bob Sheppard
Moore League
Westminster
Maria
Lake
PCL Softball Standings Shrug Off Oddities
Fragmented OCR listing teams and standings with unclear names and dates. Reads like a softball standings snippet from a PCL league, mentioning divisions and scores but many words unreadable. Likely reflects a district or school league table with team names and a date line corrupted in OCR.
Ontario hosts IMSA road show with 150 cars
Ontario Motor Speedway hosts the International Motor Sports Association event as part of a heavy California weekend offering 500 miles of road racing. IMSA fields include Porsche Carreras, Monzas, Corvettes, BMWs, and Datsun 240s with qualifying Saturday and a 100 mile Camel GT feature Sunday afternoon at the 3.1 mile, 18 turn course.
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Ontario
Southern California
Long Beach
Ontario Motor Speedway
California
Long Teach Arena
International Motor Sports Association
IMSA
West Coast
Imsa Racing
Sebring
MSA
Harvard
Peter Groge
al Holbert
Michael Keyser
John Greenwagd
Bob Brown
Petty Slumping as Muste City 420 Looms in Nashville
Richard Petty criticizes bad luck for a slow start this Grand National season with only one victory, the Carolina 500. Qualifying for the Nashville 420 top 10 stars tonight. race and Nashville 420 in July are night events on the circuit. Petty notes a late 1975 skid and a strong season prior, vowing to ride it out.
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Nassville
Tenn
Richard Petty
Petty
Nashville Speedway
Auto Expo Opens With World Debuts in Los Angeles
The Ato Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center showcases top new cars including the Ferrari 308 GTR, Porsche 924, Lancia Scorpion, Stutz Black Hawk, and Panther DeVille convertibles. Prototypes from Alfa Romeo Bertone, plus 76 models from Europe and Asia, highlight an array of sports cars, sedans, pickups, and four wheel drives. A one-eighth scale Grand Prix Bugatti Type 35 by Art Collection Auto debuts at $2400, crafted with museum quality detailing in steel, brass, leather, wood, aluminum, and rubber.
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Bill Emery
Los Angeles Convention Center
Europe
Bertone
Italy
Germany
Japan
England
Sweden
France
Stic
M. Yves Jagorel- Maliner
M. Francis Costanzo
Art Collection Auto
Indy 500 action heats up with early practice and rookies
Indianapolis Speedway began preliminary Indy 500 preparations with 22 of 77 entries in the garage and eight in initial technical inspection. Robby Unser’s Cobra led the eight, while Janet Guthrie, the first woman entrant, prepared for her rookie test ahead of May 30 race day. Guthrie’s car may be tested by teammate Dick Simon before practice. May 15 marks first phase of rookie testing with further qualifying slated May 16 and May 22–23. The track closes for carburetion tests May 26 ahead of the race.
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Indianapolis
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Robby Unser
Vallsledt
Janet Guthrie
Gary Alibritain
Trenton
Miss Guthrie
Dick Simon
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Grange County International Raceway
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Long Beach Arena
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Bubba) Rush
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Vo Lon
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