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TABLE OF CONTENTS
June 25, 1984 | Volume 60, Issue 26
The marathon race is the only event of the modern or ancient Olympics, as far as I know, that is taken from recorded history. One long September day in 490 B.C., 10,000 Athenians battled 100,000...
A PHONE CALL FROM THE PRESIDENT
•Ray Perkins, Alabama football coach, asked if his wife resents his 18-hour workdays: "I don't know. I don't see her that much."
A loose and laughing Fuzzy Zoeller won the U.S. Open in a breeze after Greg Norman's miraculous fourth-round finish forced an 18-hole playoff
By stopping Roberto Duran in two rounds, Thomas Hearns retained his crown and regained his nickname
We're used to it now here at the office: Zing, there goes picture researcher Donna Tsufura sprinting down the halls. Tsufura, 24, is intent on getting everything done five minutes ago. It's...
June 25, 1984 | Anthony Cotton The Boston Celtics, the team Red Auerbach built, beat the Los Angeles Lakers in the seventh game to capture Red's 15th world championship
His drug problem behind him, Montreal centerfielder Tim (Rock) Raines is now one of baseball's best all-around players
San Francisco's Duane Kuiper has hit one home run in nine seasons
Baltimore leftfielder Gary Roenicke hit a grand slam home run with two out in the eighth inning against New York in Yankee Stadium on Sunday. The homer won a game for pitcher Mike Flanagan and $1...
My favorite player retired Saturday. Lou Piniella, whose first year with the Yankees (1974) was my first as a baseball writer, took the game seriously but not himself. "I'm an expansion player,"...
Oakland's Joe Morgan, one of the best defensive second basemen in history, claims the smallest glove in the majors. It fits easily inside a standard infielder's model (above). "I got the idea from...
HUBIE BROOKS: The Mets' third baseman went 12 for 25 with three homers and eight RBIs as New York won five of seven games. The performance raised his season average 21 points to .310.
The Stars, winners of 14 straight, are shooting for a USFL championship
Just eight days after his great Belmont victory, Swale, the top 3-year-old in the country, fell dead
Woody Stephens's Miss Oceana was in there trying in the second leg of New York's Triple Crown for fillies, last Saturday's $217,700 Mother Goose Stakes at Belmont, but then along came Life's...
"My style is like the way I talk," says artist-athlete Ernie Barnes, "but in paint." That is not exactly true. Barnes is an exceedingly soft-spoken conversationalist, but his paintings seem to...
June 25, 1984 | Frank Deford
The best-laid schemes of mice, men and Olympic athletes often go awry these days, but Ginny Gilder, 26, has seen more than the usual number of snafus. She was a member of the U.S. Olympic rowing...
June 25, 1984 | E. M. Swift Next month at the Dayton International Airshow & Trade Exhibition—known simply as the Dayton Air Fair until 1982—some 150,000 spectators will turn their eyes skyward to witness the...
June 25, 1984 2, 3—Jerry Wachter, Carl Skalak (inset)4—George Tiedemann17—Karl Schumacher/The White House20—Illustration by Sam Q. Weissman22, 23—Heinz Kluetmeier/ABC Sports24, 25—Rich Clarkson26—Heinz...
June 25, 1984 | Compiled by JOY DUCKETT CAIN U.S. OLYMPIC TEAM QUALIFIERS
June 25, 1984 ANDREA FRYEKNOXVILLE, TENN.Andrea, 9, had a league-leading 35 goals and six hat tricks, including one seven-goal game and three in which she had six goals, as she led the coed Rams to the Squirt...
June 25, 1984 | Edited by Gay Flood BOBBY BROWN'S BALLSir:As I glanced at the photograph of Phil Niekro demonstrating the grip of his famous knuckleball (Knucksie Hasn't Lost His Grip, June 4), I noticed that the ball bore the...
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