
CONTENTS
14
REVERSALS OF FORTUNE
On a Saturday of surprises, no team suffered as severely as No. 1 Virginia, which lost to Georgia Tech
BY AUSTIN MURPHY
Iowa figured to be a Big Ten also-ran, but it was smelling roses after it waltzed for big yardage at Illinois
BY DOUGLAS S. LOONEY
Colorado saved its best for last, upending previously unbeaten Nebraska with four fourth-quarter TDs
BY SALLY JENKINS
30
'I AM NOT A DOG'
Herschel Walker says critics are barking up the wrong tree when they blame him for the Vikings' ills
BY JILL LIEBER
42
EAST MEETS WEST
The NBA showed how to export a U.S. product to Japan, where the Jazz and the Suns played two games
BY JACK McCALLUM
50
HIS CUPS RUNNETH OVER
Glen Sather loses Wayne Gretzky, so then what happens? His Oilers recover quickly to triumph again
BY JAY GREENBERG
74
ROCKY, THE ARTICLE
As the bell sounds for Round 5 of the Rock opera, Sylvester Stallone dreams of a box-office knockout
BY FRANZ LIDZ
DEPARTMENTS
6
LETTERS
9
SCORECARD
58
MARATHON
62
PRO FOOTBALL
69
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
92
FOR THE RECORD
94
POINT AFTER
COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY HEINZ KLUETMEIER
PHOTO
ANDREW D. BERNSTEIN/NBA PHOTOS
RAMBIS YOUTH EAST: When the Suns took the floor in Tokyo for the first of two regular-season games there against the Jazz, they found that the Kurt Rambis look-alike specs that are all the rage in Phoenix have their aficionados in Japan, too (page 42).