July 14, 1986 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
WHEN NOT GOLFING WITH YOUR STEADY FOURSOME, TRY A NOVEL THREESOME
By Jeremiah Tax
Wimbledon
Boris Becker and Martina Navratilova successfully and convincingly defended their Wimbledon championships
By Frank Deford
Ingrid Kristiansen cut an amazing 45.68 seconds off her world record for the 10,000 at the Bislett Games
By Kenny Moore
Carlton And Seaver
They're The Talks Of Their Towns
Steve Carlton, no longer mute, and Tom Seaver began their last hurrahs in, of all places, San Francisco and Boston
By Ron Fimrite
Cocaine
When The Cheers Turned To Tears
That cocaine could cripple an athlete's career was well established. Then came sudden, shocking proof that it can kill, too—even the young and strong. Don Rogers, a Cleveland Browns defensive back, was buried last Thursday—another cocaine casualty in sports, just eight days after basketball star Len Bias took a fatal dose of the same drug. Here are one man's reflections on those events.
By Rick Reilly
Bo Jackson
Bo's Not One To Go With The Flow
Bo Jackson, the Heisman winner, likes confounding folks, as he did by picking baseball over football
By Douglas S. Looney
By Bob Kravitz
Inside
MILWAUKEE HAS ITS OWN VALENZUELA
By Hank Hersch
Goodwill Games
There was pomp aplenty at a big new sports competition in Moscow
By Craig Neff
Turnberry
As the British Open returns to Turnberry, Scotland, the author recounts golf's greatest match: Watson-Nicklaus, 1977
By Frank Deford
First Person
WHEN TOMAHAWK SANK, THE MACKINAC RACE BECAME A MATTER OF SURVIVAL
For The Record
A roundup of the week June 30-July 6
Compiled by Duncan Brantley
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
Edited by Robert Sullivan