December 21, 1987 Table Of Contents
Books
THE EYES OF TEXAS ARE UPON THE STATE OF FOOTBALL
Medicine
SHINING A LIGHT ON WINTER BLAHS
By Timothy P. Egan
Sportsmen And Sportswomen Of The Year
'A Little Lower than the Angels'
By Frank Deford
A Man Who Can't Say No: DALE MURPHY
Reaching Out to The Kids: JUDI BROWN KING
By Kenny Moore
Toys for Girls And Boys: CHIP RIVES
By Douglas S. Looney
Building a Basis for Dreams: RORY SPARROW
'They're All My Children:' KIP KEINO
By Franz Lidz
A Burden Gallantly Borne: BOB BOURNE
Bringing Lives Up To Par: PATTY SHEEHAN
By Jaime Diaz
He Knows Whereof He Speaks: REGGIE WILLIAMS
Lakers-Celtics
In their first '87-88 meeting, the sagging Celtics were a point worse than the lame Lakers; neither looked like finalists
Dallas Cowboys
First came the unaccustomed Cowboy defeats. Now there's sniping at a Dallas demigod
Lady Longhorns
The No. 1 Lady Vols hosted a record-breaking bash, but when the music started, it was the Lady Longhorns who had a ball
By Hank Hersch
Team USA
Team USA was 2-1 against the Soviets, but it paid the price in midday meals
University Of Miami
Miami president Tad Foote is making his school face issues even tougher than Oklahoma
The Red Sox and other clubs received early Christmas gifts at baseball's winter meetings
Bill Johnson
Badly injured Bill Johnson is trying to regain his gold medal form for the Calgary Games. He'll be hard-pressed to do it
By William Oscar Johnson
Morten Andersen
New Orleans has gone gaga over its go-go placekicker, top-ranked Morten Andersen
By Jill Lieber
Television
Once again we search out and identify the best and worst of the broadcast year
By William Taaffe
College Basketball
By Morin Bishop
Wrestling Padre
In Mexico there is a most unusual man of the cloth who truly fights the good fight
By Rick Reilly
Focus
Behind every great Miami Dolphins quarterback, there has been Don Strock
Reviews
BOBBY JONES SHOWS YOU HOW TO HIT 'EM
By Ivan Maisel
For The Record
A Roundup of the Week Dec. 7-13
Compiled by Merrell Noden
Point After
Some uncommonly common celebrations made '87 special
By Steve Wulf
Departments
Edited by Gay Flood
Edited by Steve Wulf