October 26, 1981 Table Of Contents
Perspective
ALL-SPORTS ENTERPRISE RADIO WAS AN ARTISTIC WINNER AND FINANCIAL LOSER
Booktalk
IN FRANK DEFORD'S NOVEL, A FOOTBALL HERO FINDS THE HURRAHS DON'T LAST
Shopwalk
USING THIS NEW RUNNER'S WATCH IS LIKE STRAPPING A COACH TO YOUR ARM
Baseball Playoffs
New York won its fourth American League pennant in the last six seasons by dusting off the Oakland A's
By Jim Kaplan
L.A. Gets The Last Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha
By Steve Wulf
Gears And Loathing In Las Vegas
Alan Jones won the first Caesars Palace Grand Prix and Nelson Piquet took the World Drivers Championship on a parking lot just off The Strip
By Sam Moses
The Panthers
They're Making Names For Themselves
Picked clean by the NFL, Pitt is rebuilding—and fast, as Florida State found out—with the likes of the B.T. Express and The Freak
By Craig Neff
Nolan Cromwell
Best NFL Athlete? Nolan Contendere
Rams Safety Nolan Cromwell, a star quarterback and world-class hurdler as a collegian, has become one of pro football's top defensive players
Fred Lebow
He's Fred Lebow, the impresario of the New York Marathon, the Fifth Avenue Mile and 220 other extravaganzas every year
By Bob Ottum
College Football
What's black and white and red-hot?
The SMU tailback—a creature who poses a riddle that opponents haven't yet solved this year
By John Papanek
Golf
Kathy Postlewait, a non-winner on the tour, hit long green on the green
By Dan Jenkins
Pro Football
It's known as scoring, and it helped Oakland to its first win in a month
Sweat
THE STORY OF SWEAT: A WARM, INTIMATE TALE TOLD IN AN INOFFENSIVE MANNER
By William Oscar Johnson
First Person
IF YOU THINK IT'S DIFFICULT TO WIN A MARATHON, JUST TRY FINISHING LAST
On The Scene
BIKES ONCE CONSIDERED TO BE LOSERS ARE BECOMING POPULAR CRUISERS
By Sam Moses
For The Record
A roundup of the week Oct. 12-18
Compiled by JANE E. BACHMAN
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Edited by Gay Flood
Departments
Edited by Jerry Kirshenbaum