CONTENTS

Arms and the Man 18
With the Big Fella out, Magic Johnson had to be the Man. And he was, transcendently, as the Lakers won the NBA title
by John Papanek

Strangers in the Limelight 24
Toronto and Oakland, the doormats of the American League the past few years, celebrated their new ascendancy in a May Classic
by Steve Wulf

Bump and Run in the Preakness 26
Genuine Risk's jockey cried foul when Codex grazed her at the top of the stretch en route to his smashing win
by William Nack

The Big Wheel 32
Memorial Day in Somerville, N.J. features small-town whoop-de-do and some of the whiz-bangiest bicycle racing in the U.S.
by Sarah Pileggi

The Can't Miss Kid 38
All-America honors in football and all A's in the classroom make Stefan Humphries a genuine student-athlete
by Douglas S. Looney

Racing to a Midlife Crisis 90
In all his years of driving and building race cars, Dan Gurney has never faced a more critical test than this week's Indy
by Sam Moses

The Departments

Scorecard 13
Movies 48
Baseball 69
Hockey 74
Rowing 80
Soccer 86
For the Record 115
19th Hole 116

Credits on page 115

Cover photograph by Manny Millan

Next Week

HEL-LO SUCKERS! It isn't Texas Guinan at Indy, but Texan Johnny Rutherford, whose Chaparral is the fastest of the ground-effect cars that will literally suck themselves to the Speedway in the 500. Sam Moses reports from the Brickyard.

They call him the shoe, and he has fit more winners—some 7,841 at last count—than any other jockey in a career that began back in 1949. At age 48, Bill Shoemaker is going through a rebirth. William Nack profiles an astonishing athlete.