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Contents: Duke’s Tenacious Mike Gminski (No one is prouder of the Blue Devil’s inexhaustible center than his father, Joe, who quit his job when Mike was eight and devoted his life to making the youngster an All-American), The SPORT Interview: Al McGuire (The flamboyant former coach, now a business executive, holds forth on the NCAA tourney, coaching, his new career as a TV announcer and his restless spirit: “I’m looking for something almost unattainable”), Dennis Eckersley’s Sweet, Sad Season (Traded to Boston in 1978, Eck won 20 games for the first time. But his wife stayed in Cleveland with his best friend), The NBA’s Horrendous On-The-Road Show (On a typical trip that covered 7,000 miles in nine days, the Houston Rockets survived one blizzard, several detours, four losses in six games and extreme fatigue. The NBA schedule, the author reports, has “rigged” the game in favor of the home team), The Glorious NBA In-The-Air Show (“Why ride” asks one player, “when you can fly”? This photo essay shows some of basketball’s highest fliers acting like the law of gravity was never discovered), Surprise! Ozzie Smith (“I could’ve made it a few years earlier”), Matt Robinson (“I waited a long time for this opportunity”), John Wensink (“The truth is, I didn’t do a thing to improve”), The Game’s Best Sixth Man (Mitch Kupchak, the Washington Bullets’ board-banging, sharp-shooting supersub, “lives life like plays ball – in a hurry and a little reckless”), Andy Bean Gets Mad At Good Shots (The third-leading money winner on the PGA tour last year also manhandles alligators, bites through golf balls and works like hell to be the best. Yet he admits, “I’ve got to be more patient”), Kelly Tripucka: “He Likes It Rugged” (Having learned aggressiveness early from his older brothers, Tripucka had no trouble achieving instant stardom at Notre Dame. “I didn’t play dirty,” he says, “but I rough it up”), SPORT Letters, SPORT Talk, SPORT Quiz
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