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| January |
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Contents - Rating The Quarterbacks (An NFL team travels on it's quarterback's stomach. Or gut. Not to mention his arm, feet and head. And at no time is that more true than in the playoffs. We asked a panel of former players and coaches to grade the current crop of passers. Here is the best), Lightning Strikes Back ("The cliche about a quarterback taking five years to learn how to read a defense is bull*^#), How A QB Should Prepare For The Playoffs (For one thing, get home early the night before),The QB Of The Future (Vinny Testaverde will be the first pick in the NFL draft, no question. The suspense is over who will do the picking), Lightning Strikes Back (Chargers running back Gary (Lightning) Anderson, one of football's bright new stars, was the first real victim of the NFL-USFL wars. The battle may be over but the scars are still healing), How The Polls Really Work (Who decides who's No. 1? Meet the men who have the last word on determining college football's national champion), The Dawn Of Tito Horford (As he enters his first season at the U. of Miami, the 7-1 center is at once the most celebrated and the most mysterious freshman in xcollege basketball), Clash Of The Titans (Seven-six Manute Bol and 7-4 Mark Eaton have changed the art of shotblocking. Now they are battling to see who will dominate it), A Double Fault For U.S. Tennis (The Davis Cup finals will be played this month, again without American participation. Just like the U.S. Open finals. And Wimbledon. Whatever happened to the good old days?), The Emperor Of Arkansas (Frank Broyles wanted only to be a big fish in a small pond. Then he made the pond bigger) Departments - Fanfare, Between The Lines (Guess what they're saying about William Perry...and Ray Leonard), Sport Talk (College football playoff on the way...baseball trades brewing...a union for college athletes), Big Picture (The Rose Bowl. Take a moment to smell the flowers), Sweat (Our new column, the weekend jock's guide to fitness - with a little help from the pros), Ultimate Fan (What every sports fan wants for Christmas), Sport Quiz, Finish Line (NHL-style hockey, eyeball to eyeball) |
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| June |
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Contents - The SPORT 100 Salary Report (Ten years ago there no million-dollar contracts in sports. Five years ago, when we first published this survey, there were 23 millionaires. This year everyone in the SPORT 100 is a millionaire. Free agency in baseball may be down, the USFL may be out, unions may be gripping, but the party's not over yet), The Color Of Money (What did John Madden make out of the booth? What does it cost to rent space on Ivan Lendl? How does it feel to take a $600,000 pay cut? Wouldn't you like to know?), What's Eating Jim Rice? (He's the highest-paid player in baseball. He's been to the World Series. His place in Cooperstown is all but assured. Yet there's still a dark cloud over left field in Fenway), First Love (The Mets' Keith Hernandez understands first base like no other player before him. He has taken an out-of-the-way fielding position and turned it into the center of the universe), Exit Dunking (Before the era of Michael Jordan. the 360 and the slamdunk, heavy-legged giants and sharpshooting waterbugs ruled the hardwood. Then along came Julius Erving), The Uncrowned Prince Of The Triple Crown (Young jockey Jose Santos is ready to unseat the great Angel Cordero from his saddle atop the racing world. But Cordero is not quite done yet. Their rivalry this racing season should provide the greatest thrill since Alydar met Affirmed) Departments - Our Turn (As balloting begins for the All-Star games, the fans say: We don't want the vote), Fanfare, Between The Lines (Oilers vs roaches...Raider vs refs...HBO vs Showtime), Sport Talk (The cost of collusion...Why the world's greatest athlete is a woman...Results of the Baseball Reader Poll), Beers With...Pat Riley (If you want to talk about some slick hoops, hair and haberdashery pull up a chair), Big Picture (The Indianapolis 500, where speed thrills), Sweat (Getting your throwing are in shape means staying on your toes), The Ultimate Fan (A traveler's guide to the great minor league ballparks...the ultimate in fitness machines), Sport Quiz, Finish Line (Lost among the Harlem Globetrotters) |
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| July |
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Contents - The Anatomy Of An At-Bat (It is baseball's ultimate confrontation, the private battle between pitcher and hitter. Cincinnati's Dave Parker steps in to face Houston's Mike Scott), Backstage At Wimbledon (Americans love Wimbledon - for all the wrong reasons.), What's On Draft (For the NBA draft, our Hungarian hoopsmeister pours out his first-round picks and sleepers, plus some household names to avoid), Divided They Fall (Marvin Miller blames the ballplayers for losing free agency) The Sport Reader - The Greatest Game Ever Played (The 1958 NFL title game didn't look so hot from the field), Catchers And Pitchers (Scenes from two marriages of the ballfield, one good, one horrible.), Killer Instinct (Dempsey. Liston. We'll never see the likes of them again), Temper Fugit (What does it take to make a golf temper finally rest in peace?), Fences (A sports career is an empty promise to a former Negro League player), Sweetwater (One of the NBA's first black players recalls relearning to play his game), The Voices Of Summer (Out of the mouths of broadcasters have come baseball's funnier moments), Distances (Backed by a ream of kids, a stranger challenges the local semipro champions. For $10,000, winner take all) Departments - Our Turn, Fanfare, Between The Lines (Tennessee payoffs...Dodgers-Astros feud), Sport Talk (Why Spinks can't lose...Baseball's newest stat), Beers With...Jim McMahon, Sweat (Second wind is no myth - if you're willing to go the extra yard), The Ultimate Fan (How to win at the track), Sport Quiz, Finish Line (In the middle of the fight) |
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| August |
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The 1987 NFL Spectacular - The Living Daylights (The hard hit in football is not simply uncontrolled violence. It is art and it is hard science. Just ask Dr. Banks, or Professor Singletary or Herr Doktor Mecklenburg), The AFC Preview (The previous seasons angriest team is next season's Super Bowl team, or so recent history tells us. The Patriots have lots of talent, but no one is more pissed than the Bengals and the Seahawks), The NFC Preview (While the Giants and Bears contend for Best Defense of the Eighties, the 49ers are designing the Offense of the Nineties), Manley, Unchained (If you're looking for the impact player of 1987, check out Washington, where a detoxed Dexter Manley is looming rather large), Big Picture: The Next Wave (There is a stadium construction boom in progress, bringing with it everything from fold-out dollies to movable fields), Major League Nightmares (When they're alone, in the dark, what do baseball players dream about?), Don't Call Him Jeff (Giants' enigmatic slutter Jeffrey Leonard lets his bat to the talking. And it has quite a mouth on it) Departments - Our Turn (As the Campanis incident fades, the start of football reminds us: Where are the black head coaches), Fanfare, Between The Lines (Raiders' mystery QB...Bickering Birds...Closed-circuit short circuit), Sport Talk (Paan Am: the next fastest human...Fine art of baseball fines...Boxing's drug KO), Beers With...Bobby Valentine (With the Texas Rangers' bright young manager, the food is Italian but it's the talk that's spicy), Sweat (Sharpening your accuracy requires some targeted practice), The Ultimate Fan (How to photograph a ballgame...Beyond Rambis: state-of-the-art sports spectacles), Sport Quiz, Finish Line (Man down on the field) |
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| September |
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Contents - The SPORT College Football Top 20 (After 14 years of powerhouse teams and frustrating finishes, the number is finally up for Tom Osborne and his Nebraska Cornhuskers - and that number is one), Handicapping The Heisman (Holy Cross' Gordie Lockbaum, the two-way throwback? Nice, but no way), High-Impact Freshman (New names worth watching from day one), The Second Division (Eight upstarts who could break through, and five has-beens who will break down), A Stranger In The Family (Bill Curry, with his Georgia Tech diploma, academics-first reputation and losing record, is about to begin his first season as head coach at Alabama. What in the Bear's name is going on in Tuscaloosa?), The Triple (The line drive in the gap. The runner cutting the bases. The long throw. The head first slide. The triple is the most exciting play in baseball, but they're not making them like they used to), Big Picture: Chasing 68 (Track and Field's longest standing records - Bob Beamon's in the long jump and Lee Evan's in the 400 meters - are heading for a fall this month in Rome), Taiwan 11, USA 4 (What is it with those kids in Taiwan? Why are they always beating us in our Little League World Series? We sent our man to the Orient to find out), LT: Living On The Edge (In 1985, Lawrence Taylor of the New York Giants made 100 tackles and 13 1/2 sacks and got hooked on cocaine. Here, for the first time, is his own account of his drug nightmare and his flight from conventional rehabilitation. From his forthcoming autobiography, LT: Living On The Edge) Departments - Our Turn (WAhy athletes should't be role models), Fanfare, Between The Lines (Hagler's next move...Scuffball scuttlebutt), Sport Talk (Phoenix and Memphis in the NFL?...Dr. J's thank you list...Trainer bites jockey), Beers With...Greg Norman (A cool one with the PGA's brightest light as he takes time out from the Norman conquest of America), Sweat (How to throw a punch...and how to take one), The Ultimate Fan (Postmodern sports electronics...A baseball theme park), Sport Quiz, Finish Line (Last chance at a big league tryout) |
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| October |
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Contents - Resurrection At Notre Dame (In it's 100th season, Americas most famous college football team is on the rebound. Lou Holtz has gotten his Irish up and back into the Top 20), Blood, Grit And Years (Although he's gunning for Fran Tarkenton's all-time yardage record, most opponents will remember Dan Fout's not as one of the game's best touch passers but as one of it's toughest players), The New Specialists (With their own game plans and carefully chosen players, special teams will be the NFL's secret weapon in 1987), The 1987-88 NHL Preview (The Red Wings and the Whalers are for real. The Flyers are back and hungry. But can anyone stop the Gretzkies from taking their fourth Stanley Cup? Well, uh...), What I Learned In School Today (The author takes a phys. ed. course at a major football power and learned how some jocks maintain their elegibility, no sweat), Before The Roar (Backstage at Detroit's Tiger Stadium, a baseball landmark, is another team of Tigers that puts magic in a day at the ballpark without ever touching a ball), The Wit And Wisdom Of Joe Magrane (St. Louis pitching phenom Joe Magrane is an overnight sensation, 23 well-planned years in the making), Beers With...Jim Kelly And Boomer Esiason (Have a cool one with a couple of hot QB's, as they let their hair down about dirty teams, bad play-calling and what really goes on in the huddle) Departments - Our Turn (S, what do you think?), Fanfare. Between The Lines (The NFL's dirtiest line...Kayo for Canadian boxing), Sport Talk (Baseall looks at a 23-man roster...The truth about Davey Lopes...Tennis' black hope), Sweat (The way to a man's power is through his stomach), The Ultimate Man (Sneaking in a college football game...Where to find Olympic tickets in Calgary), Sport Quiz, Finish Line (Loading half a ton of equine dynamite) |
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| December |
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Contents - Our Year (Dealer's choice: The most intriguing sports stories of '87), Freeze Frame (Keith Smart's title-winning shot), The Last Laugh (Burned by free agency, buddies Andre Dawson and Tim Raines turned around and set baseball on fire), Back From The Brink (In the Year of the Hoosier, Bob Knight loosened up and fate took over), Unglaublich! (Steffi Graf has an 18-year-old's innocence that will charm you and a right hand that will knock you out), Boat Warrior (Dennis Connor was not the best sailor in the America's Cup races, just the most obsessed), The Home Stretch (Trainer Jack Van Berg and Alysheba won the Derby and the Preakness, but not the respect of the racing world - yet!), Dream Fight (Marvin Hagler chased a ghost named Sugar Ray through the endless Las Vegas night), Glory Day (In the biggest game of his career, Phil Simms gave a performance that changed his life), Teacher Of The Year (Harry Edwards' lesson about blacks and sports is the same as it was in '68, but now everyone is learning), A Cowboy's Long Way Home (Larry Bethea's life of promise was ended by his own hand in a back alley in Newport News), Fade-Out (One last word before they leave us), Reggie Jackson (Walking around in Reggie's shoes), Chico Resch (On ice and off, Chico was a beautiful loser), Tom Seaver (The pride remains, after the fall), Al Campanis (A baseball man good for the game, after all), SMU Football (Anybody out there miss Mustang football?), Police Blotter (Who did what - and got caught - in the underworld of sports), The $1,000 Sport Quiz (That's the prize for solving the toughest teaser ever assembled) |
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