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Contents: 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 Doctor 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 (Pan 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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Condition: Very Good