December 27, 1993 Table Of Contents
Games
Are the newest basketball video games more fun than the real thing?
By Albert O. Kim
Bicycling
Inventor Bill Becoat says two-wheel-drive bikes are the sport's next big thing
By Franz Lidz
Perspective
A new computer program makes some scribes squirm
By Chad Millman
Fox And The NFL
Rupert Murdoch's upstart network snatched the NFL from CBS in a coup that will change the face of televised sports
By Steve Wulf
College Basketball
The Atlantic 10, once easily dismissed, has now made the grade as a conference to be reckoned with
By Ned Zeman
Orange Bowl 1994
Florida State quarterback Charlie Ward, the Heisman Trophy winner, is as all-American as a young man can be
By Rick Reilly
Even if Nebraska wins the national championship on New Year's Day, coach Tom Osborne isn't likely to dance on any tabletops
93 things that went right in '93
Hey, everybody can't get a break, but here's who did in a random review of the year
By Franz Lidz
A Time To Mourn
Untimely deaths in 1993 kept the sports world in a nearly constant state of grieving
Good Sports
By Peter King
By Steve Wulf
Dream Game
Imagine Michael and Magic back for just one game: a duel between Dream Team I and Dream Team II
Willie Roaf
Willie Roaf's mother wanted him to be a star student, but instead he became a star athlete
By Gary Smith
Norwich
The author discovers that you can go home again when he revisits haunts in Norwich, N.Y.
By Steve Wulf
Skiing
British skiers enjoy slaloming down plastic-bristle slopes
College Football
Youngstown State beat Marshall in a I-AA rematch of a rematch
Point After
Departments
Edited by Jack McCallum