October 15, 1984 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
FRED LEBOW'S BOOK ON MARATHONING IS MORE A PERSONAL AWARD CEREMONY
By Jeremiah Tax
First Person
LEO THE DOG COULDN'T SWIM, BUT HE KEPT THE AUTHOR'S SPIRITS AFLOAT
Sideline
IN PRAISE OF AN OLYMPIAN: WE DIDN'T BELONG IN THE SAME BOAT WITH HER
By Lisa Twyman
The Playoffs
You've Got To Hand It To The Padres
Led by MVP Steve Garvey, San Diego charged from way behind to defeat Chicago and take its first National League crown ever
By Steve Wulf
The Tigers Roar To The Pennant
By Ron Fimrite
Walter Payton
Up and Over, to the Record and Beyond
Needing 66 yards to catch Jim Brown, Walter Payton got 'em against the Saints with 88 to spare
Hockey 1984-85
That's the novel direction in which the NHL may be headed now that Wayne Gretzky's slick Oilers are the Stanley Cup champions
By Jack Falla
The pitiful Penguins figure that they'll be a lot higher in the NHL pecking order now that their prize draft pick, Mario Lemieux, is in their nest
By E.M. Swift
TV/Radio
College football ratings appear to be suffering from overexposure
By William Taaffe
College Football
It's ebb Tide, and the fans are restless
Following a sea change, Alabama is off to its worst start since 1957
By Douglas S. Looney
By N. Brooks Clark
Pro Football
Jet Wesley Walker's vision may be impaired, but not his pass-catching ability
By Jill Lieber
By Jill Lieber
Special Report
Ten thousand migrating caribou, meeting a river swollen as never before, followed their instincts to death in Canada
For The Record
A roundup of the week Oct. 1-7
Compiled by Greg Kelly
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Edited by Gay Flood
Departments
Edited by Jerry Kirshenbaum