May 12, 1980 Table Of Contents
Footloose
The Mohonk Mountain House Gives Runners Something to Rally Around
By Dan Levin
The Derby
Showing up the Guys at the Downs
Leading the way as the field straightened out for the wire, Genuine Risk became the first filly to win the Kentucky Derby in 65 years and only the second in history
By William Nack
OLD DODGER BLUE GETS NEW PAINT
Los Angeles is sparkling, thanks in part to rookies who won't be given the brush
By Steve Wulf
Midland Run
ROAD SHOW WITH AN ALL-STAR CAST
The 15-kilometer Midland Run in lush New Jersey horse country attracted the finest road-racing field in history. Henry Rono's arrival was a classic of suspense, but it was Herb Lindsay's finish that really drew the raves
By Joe Marshall
Russ Francis
A TIGHT END WHO HANGS REAL LOOSE
For Russ Francis of the New England Patriots, life is one continuous luau and the past is what you leave behind
By E.M. Swift
Clive Toye
THE DAY PELE SPLIT HIS PANTS—AND OTHER COUPS
Who bagged the Black Pearl? Frisked Germany of Franz? Why, Clive Toye, a man riding out a Blizzard
By Clive Gammon
TV/Radio
By Joe Jares
Baseball
John Curtis of San Diego is showing his class in very different endeavors, journalism and baseball
By Ron Fimrite
Tennis
He's not a man to take it lying down
Reversing his decline, Jimmy Connors sailed through the WCT championship, punishing John McEnroe in the finale
Muskie
The beastly muskellunge is preeminently ugly, preternaturally ferocious and preposterously hard to catch, as the author and his family found out in 38 summers at Wisconsin's Upper Clam Lake
By William Oscar Johnson
Nostalgia
SEE GOOSE GOSLIN RUN. RUN, GOOSE, RUN. OH, NO, YOU'RE OUT, GOOSE, OUT
By Ralph Graves
For The Record
A roundup of the week April 28-May 4
Compiled by Roger Jackson
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Edited by Gay Flood
Departments
Edited by Jerry Kirshenbaum