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).