April 30, 1990 Table Of Contents
First Person
LOVE TOOK WING WHEN GERTIE MET MR. RIGHT
By Jay Feldman
Books
A COUSTEAU YOU WOULD HARDLY KNOW
Escape
A CLIMBING ESTABLISHMENT THAT SENDS YOU RIGHT UP THE WALL
Spotlight
TRIATHLON CHAMP ERIN BAKER BECOMES A WOMAN ON THE RUN
By Ken McAlpine
Cincinnati Reds
With Pete Rose gone and Lou Piniella fully in charge, the Cincinnati Reds got off to their best start in club history
By Tim Kurkjian
Heavyweights went at it in an ugly brawl involving the Pistons and the 76ers that produced $162,500 in fines
Earth Day success story: The Chattanooga choo-choo no longer spews foul air
By William Oscar Johnson
Crashing into the crease has become so common that goaltenders are becoming an endangered species
Jackson State
Three football players died in a car crash, once again engulfing a Mississippi campus in tragedy
NFL Draft '90
Three workouts turned unheralded Jeff George into the prize pick of the NFL draft
By Douglas S. Looney
Because Joyce Ware never let her son, Andre, be a quitter, he is a Heisman winner and NFL bound
By Jill Lieber
Inside
By Peter King
By Peter King
By Tim Kurkjian
Robin Yount
Robin Yount has MVP talents worth millions but revels in high-risk fun with very big toys
Focus
Harvey Pollack's forte is creative statistics
By Tom Starner
Yesterday
Why Bob Malo's muskie is a heavyweight with no title
By Sarah Boxer
Television
ESPN's exhaustive coverage is (mostly) a delight
By Steve Wulf
For The Record
A Roundup of the Week April 16-22
Compiled by Tim Crothers
Departments
Edited by Craig Neff