December 6, 1993 Table Of Contents
To The Reader
By Mark Mulvoy
NFL Woes
Pro football might still be America's favorite game, but with fewer stars, too many injuries and not enough offense, the league has to start curing what ails it
By Peter King
Bit players upstaged stars at the World Cup in Utah
By William Oscar Johnson
Defectors
Fleeing their troubled homeland, more than three dozen Cubans defected during a competition in Puerto Rico
By Steve Wulf
Seattle SuperSonics
Buoyed by new arrivals, the bickering SuperSonics are among the early favorites for the NBA title
By Phil Taylor
College Football
Big wins over traditional rivals set up a showdown for the national championship: Nebraska vs. Florida State in the Orange Bowl on Jan. 1
Lenny Dykstra
Fun-loving, free-spending Phillie Lenny Dykstra toured Europe as baseball's unlikely ambassador
By Ian Thomsen
Sports People
By Tim Crothers
Inside
By Peter King
College Basketball
Top-ranked North Carolina stumbled in the NIT, paving the way for a Kansas victory
Boni
A SEEMINGLY HARMLESS SLASH TO THE CHEST RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF A HOCKEY PLAYER IN ITALY. NOW, JIMMY BONI WILL GO ON TRIAL FOR MANSLAUGHTER
By E.M. Swift
Point After
In picking college football's No. 1 team, there are two, even three, sides to every argument
Departments
Edited by Jack McCallum