Publish date:: May 12, 1980

May 12, 1980 Table Of Contents

Author:: SI Staff

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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

THE WRONG MAN BEHIND THE MIKE

By Joe Jares

Baseball

Has typewriter, will pitch

John Curtis of San Diego is showing his class in very different endeavors, journalism and baseball

By Ron Fimrite

THE WEEK (April 27-May 3)

By Herm Weiskopf

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

By Curry Kirkpatrick

Muskie

That Muskie Madness

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