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Contents: Sports Towns U.S.A. (Take a road trip to the most interesting places in sports. From a town in Minnesota where hockey is a way of life, to a prison in New York where basketball is an escape from reality. From Texas, where all eyes are upon a young high school coach succeeding a local legend, to North Carolina for some old-fashioned, country hardball. And so on to points north, south, east and west. Come tour the sports capitals of America), The Real Larry Bird (Before you can understand Larry Bird’s game, you have to understand the man. And inside the best basketball player in the world is still the poor, small-town boy from southern Indiana), Bird Calls (Bird rates the best of the NBA – by is standards), Who Are Those Guys? (In Texas, general manager Tom Grieve and manager Bobby Valentine are looking like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The question is: Will they stand up to the challenge of the Texas Rangers – or will they be ambushed first), The Buddy Ryan Show (Mike Ditka’s nemesis gets to do it his way in Philadelphia. He plans to start changing Eagles into Bears this month at the NFL draft), NFL Draft Preview (Your team’s shopping list, and what it might find on the shelf), Stanley Cup Preview (Can the Edmonton Oilers be denied their third consecutive Stanley Cup? No, say experts around the NHL, unless you have the right players and the perfect strategy Here’s the plan, and the teams that can pull it off), Glad Dog (Don’t call him Mad Dog anymore. Bill Madlock is in love – with Los Angeles and the Dodgers. And they love him back, as their third baseman and hard-hitting number-three batter. With a marriage like this, can another batting title be far behind), Interview: Don Denkinger (An umpire is vilified in popular culture for just doing his job. And when he misses a call, as Denkinger did in game six of the World Series, well…Here’s how it looks from the other side of the mask) Departments – Fanfare, Sport Talk, Ultimate Fan (The best of the new baseball books), Sport Quiz, Finish Line (The world championship of hockey)
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