May 21, 1984 Table Of Contents
Sideline
A CATCHY INTRO TO A CHEER BECAME MUSIC TO THE EARS OF MYRIAD FANS
By Bill Stieg
Booktalk
CASANOVA AS AN AMERICAN SWINGER, OR, TRIVIA TIME IN THE BOOKSHOPS
By Jeremiah Tax
Olympics
Shrewd Planning Should Keep ABC in the Money
By William Taaffe
A Decline In The Gold Standard
Oh, For The Days Of A County Fair
By Kenny Moore
Is There Life After Los Angeles?
By William Oscar Johnson
For Leonard It Was Down, And Then Out
Though Sugar Ray got up and won his comeback, he called it quits
By Pat Putnam
Celtics
This Bird, It's Plain, Is Really Superman
In the seventh game Larry Bird was singularly sensational as Boston sent New York out of the playoffs
By Bruce Newman
Motor Sports
Stepping up the beat for the 500
With a heart-stopping qualifying run, Tom Sneva won the Indy pole
By Sam Moses
Pro Basketball
Milwaukee has not gone wrong since heeding coach Don Nelson's song
Marathon
Gutty Joan Benoit won the U.S. trial for the first women's Olympic race
By Kenny Moore
Baseball
Scott Bankhead and B.J. Surhoff put the charge in No. 3 Carolina
INSIDE PITCH (Statistics through May 13)
By Henry Hecht
Movies
Whether you like this fantasy may depend on how well you know baseball
By Frank Deford
Salnikov
From Stillness Comes Swiftness
One of the major casualties of the Soviet boycott of the Olympics is Vladimir Salnikov, the finest distance freestyler in the world—and an exemplar of his country's culture, as '72 hero Mark Spitz is of ours
By Gary Smith
Reminiscence
FOR CONNIE MACK'S NIECE, A GAME AT FENWAY MEANT STEPPING OUT IN STYLE
For The Record
A roundup of the week May 7-13
Compiled by Joy Duckett CAIN
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Edited by Gay Flood
Departments
Edited by Robert W. Creamer