September 11, 1995 Table Of Contents
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By Mark Mulvoy
EDITED BY Alexander Wolff AND Kostya Kennedy
Pro Football
No doubt it's a bit much — for most people, anyway — to use those words to describe the opening of another nfl season, a sunday on which 851,953 people in 14 stadiums witnessed 57 touchdowns, two overtime victories, the birth squalls of two new franchises and the relocation of two old ones. But the phrase is just right to describe a rookie running back's game-winning burst into the end zone, the perfect invocation for a new season.
By William Nack
Boxing
A BLOW FOR BRITAIN EVER PERSEVERING, FRANK BRUNO FINALLY WON HIS NATION A HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE
Baseball
By Tom Verducci
(many of them heretical) about Baltimore (which isn't what it used to be), baseball (which isn't what it used to be) and the steadfast perfection of Cal Ripken Jr. (which is ever unchanging, fairly complicated and truly something to behold)
By Peter King
College Football
FLATTENED NOTRE DAME'S SEASON LAY IN RUINS AFTER A SHOCKING LOSS TO LOWLY NORTHWESTERN
By Marty Burns
By Tim Layden