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The Moscow games, diminished though they be by the boycott, are expected to produce a dramatic 800-meter showdown between record-holder Sebastian Coe and his countryman, Steve Ovett. The SI team covers this and other developments.

Reggie Jackson's bite of the Big Apple gets juicier and juicier as the prodigious New York Yankee slugger heads into the second half of one of his finest seasons. William Nack brings you up to date on the superduperstar on and off the field.