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| January |
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Contents - Please Don't Feed The Bears (The Chicago Bears have a quarterback who loves to hit, a running back who loves to pass and a 314-pound Refrigerator who wants to do everything. They're even stranger off the field. Come spend a week inside their cage), Easley Does It (Seattle's Kenny Easley is the hardest hitter in football, a throwback to the bad-ass Raiders defenses. In the Year of the Safety, he's also a peek into the future), Bo Jackson, Man And Superman (He's the best college football player, the best college baseball player in the country, the best...well, a picture is worth a thousand words), Trouble In River City (Harry Ornest rescued the Blues for St. Louis and gave the city a first-place team. And now the people of St. Louis hate him for it), Upward Mobility (It takes a special player to push all-star Jim Paxson to the bench and make Jack Ramsey change his coaching style. That player is Clyde Drexler, and he is just beginning), The Riddle Of The Pearl (Will Dwayne Washington come out of his shell to lead Syracuse to a national title? Or will he clam up and be just another high-school-stud-turned-underachiever. This is the year we find out), The Ultimate Fan (The toughest ticket in sports - and how to get it. What an athlete's car says about him. Why mini-TV's are good for you and why you can really take them out to the ballgame. All in our new section, a practical guide for the insatiable fan), Interview: Frank Layden (The coach of the Utah Jazz is fond of loud clothing, loud opinions and teaching quiet teams to make some noise) Departments - Fanfare, Sport Talk, General Admission (Wheaties, the champion of breakfasts), Sport Quiz, Finish Line (In Texas, coaches rule the airwaves) |
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| February |
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Contents - Super Bowl Preview (The Super Bowl's twentieth anniversary is a good time to examine how the game has changed in 20 years. From the size of the players to the scope of their equipment to the cost of a commercial spot), Then And Now (Insights from Super Bowl first-timers Jerry Kramer, Len Dawson, Hank Stram and Emmitt Thomas), The First Black Coach In The NFL (If the NFL is waiting for the right candidate to join the ranks of Baseball's Frank Robinson and Basketball's Bill Russell, the wait is over. Pittsburgh's Tony Dungy is a young, gifted and black - a successful defensive coodinator on the move at age 30), Team Colors (The NFL's visiting program for black college coaches offers good will, but so far no jobs), The 1985 Sport Calendar (A special pull-out bonus, chock-full of sports photos, trivia and the key dates of the year ahead in sports. And still room for your dentist appointment. What no refrigerator - or office wall - should be without), How I Do What I Do (How does Isiah Thomas throw a perfect behind-the-back pass on the run? How does 6-8 Buck Williams rebound like he's 7-4? How does Kiki Vandeweghe, with neither speed nor great moves, score all those points? How does Earth-bound Mark Eaton block all of those shots) Here's how), Dr. Tom Makes A House Call (Dr. Tom Davis' system of coaching college basketball turns little men into giants. It worked for him at Boston College. Now he faces the biggest test at Stanford), Coaches' Quirks (Every coach has one: Illinois' Lou Henson, Arkansas' Nolan Richardson and Louisville's Denny Crum, for instance), The Knee (Namath, Orr, Mantle. They are remembered as much for their shattered knees as for their athletic achievements. To an athlete, the knee is the most important body part - and the most injury prone), Interview: John Robinson (With or without Dickerson, with or without a quarterback, with or without a great defense, the Rams' John Robinson goes to bed early, doesn't worry and always wins) Departments - Fanfare, Sport Talk, General Admission (Hawaii's revenge), Ultimate Fan (The Super Bowl of parties), Sport Quiz, Finish Line (Hollywood's team) |
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| May |
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Contents - Sports Towns U.S.A. (Take a road trip to the most interesting places in sports. From a town in Minnesota where hockey is a way of life, to a prison in New York where basketball is an escape from reality. From Texas, where all eyes are upon a young high school coach succeeding a local legend, to North Carolina for some old-fashioned, country hardball. And so on to points north, south, east and west. Come tour the sports capitals of America), The Real Larry Bird (Before you can understand Larry Bird's game, you have to understand the man. And inside the best basketball player in the world is still the poor, small-town boy from southern Indiana), Bird Calls (Bird rates the best of the NBA - by is standards), Who Are Those Guys? (In Texas, general manager Tom Grieve and manager Bobby Valentine are looking like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The question is: Will they stand up to the challenge of the Texas Rangers - or will they be ambushed first), The Buddy Ryan Show (Mike Ditka's nemesis gets to do it his way in Philadelphia. He plans to start changing Eagles into Bears this month at the NFL draft), NFL Draft Preview (Your team's shopping list, and what it might find on the shelf), Stanley Cup Preview (Can the Edmonton Oilers be denied their third consecutive Stanley Cup? No, say experts around the NHL, unless you have the right players and the perfect strategy Here's the plan, and the teams that can pull it off), Glad Dog (Don't call him Mad Dog anymore. Bill Madlock is in love - with Los Angeles and the Dodgers. And they love him back, as their third baseman and hard-hitting number-three batter. With a marriage like this, can another batting title be far behind), Interview: Don Denkinger (An umpire is vilified in popular culture for just doing his job. And when he misses a call, as Denkinger did in game six of the World Series, well...Here's how it looks from the other side of the mask) Departments - Fanfare, Sport Talk, Ultimate Fan (The best of the new baseball books), Sport Quiz, Finish Line (The world championship of hockey) |
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| August |
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Contents - NFL Preview Spectacular - The AFC Preview (The bloodied Patriots will pass the torch. To whom? Miami and Cleveland will contend again, and so will the Colts, of all people. The budding superteam of 1986, though, is the Denver Broncos), Rating The Tough Guys, AFC (Mark Gastineau, Dan Fouts and Louis Lipps rank their archenemies), Branded (Questionable drug testing procedures have left some rookies burned and bitter as their careers begin), The NFC Preview (Bear hunting season begins. The Giants, Redskins and Rams are armed and ready. And lying in the brush are Tampa Bay and Minnesota), Rating The Tough Guys, NFC (Eric Dickerson, Eerson Walls and Mike Singletary name the players they fear the most), Did You Hear What We Heard (Which player-deal does Al Davis call "the only time I've been had". Which QB already looks bench-bound to his coach? And other notes and gossip from camp), The End Of The NFL! (With the USFL on its case, a player strike in the wind, the networks turning surly and the city of Phoenix turning desperate, the NFL is facing a turbulent season), Birth Of A Notion (What do you get when you combine summer football and indoor soccer? Arena Football. And it's coming to your town, its inventor hopes, sometime next year), Last Of The 300-Game Winners (Money, conditioning and a shortage of young turks have kept over three dozen pitchers winning well into their thirties. It's a phenomenom we may not see again), Is There A Rabbit In The '86 Ball (That's what everyone's asking as home run totals soar. Our man goes inside the ball for the answer), The Dark Side Of Donald Curry (There is a reason why Donald Curry, the undisputed welterweight champion, fights brilliant but often boring bouts. He has the image of his brother Bruce, the former junior welterweight champ, to remind him what can happen if he loses control) Departments - Fanfare, Sport Talk, Ultimate Fan (How to pick a bookie), Sport Quiz, Finish Line (Maiden voyage at 200 mph) |
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