
CONTENTS
14
DAN & DAVE: NOT!
After wrenching track and field trials, Dave Johnson will be going to the Olympics. Dan O'Brien won't
BY KENNY MOORE
22
SAY CHEESE
After requesting a pregame photo, Cuba posed no threat in its game with the U.S. Olympic basketball team
BY JACK McCALLUM
28
PAIN AND PROGRESS
Last summer, Steve Palermo was shot by a mugger, but he dreams of umpiring in the big leagues again
BY BRUCE NEWMAN
34
PRIZE PUPIL
Raul Marquez studied boxing so well under his dad that he earned a berth on the U.S. Olympic team
BY WILLIAM NACK
36
TOO ALIVE TO DIE
Still, freak accidents took the lives of Jerome Brown of the Eagles and Eric Andolsek of the Lions
BY RICK REILLY
64
KILLER TABS STRIKE AGAIN!
At Wimbledon, the Beasties and Rotters, i.e., the esteemed Fleet Streeters, never let facts honker a good story
BY CURRY KIRKPATRICK
68
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Melvin Stewart's trip from the world of the PTL ministry to being the premier butterflyer was Dickensian
BY MERRELL NODEN
80
REMEMBERING THEIR GAME
Negro leagues baseball players performed for nickels and dimes, but their recollections of the old days are rich
PHOTOGRAPHS BY BILL BALLENBERG
TEXT BY SHELLEY SMITH
COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY BUCK MILLER
DEPARTMENTS
4
MOVIES
6
LETTERS
9
SCORECARD
73
BASEBALL
78
CYCLING
96
FOR THE RECORD
98
POINT AFTER
PHOTO
MANNY MILLAN
She Huffed And She Puffed but Marsha Guialdo could not blow away the opposition in this heat of the women's 100-meter hurdles at the Olympic track and field trials and failed to qualify for the finals (page 14).