No Super Game Plan In Overtown;Instead There Are Bullets, Anger, Fire
MIAMI — He was wearing one of those toy beepers, and when he reached down and pulled the bullet from his flesh, the beeper went off and made a funny noise — beedledeedleeep! — a noise that said, “Hey, I’m just a kid, what’s going on here?”
He was a black youth shot by a white man, a moment of madness, a moment of horror, and heaven help this city now, for the fire this time will surely continue. “I’m going to get him,” the youth screamed, upon seeing his wound.
“Y’all come back tonight at 6 o’clock if you want to help me get him!” he yelled at the crowd around him.
Collinsworth: Goodby To ‘Crack Of Noon Club’
MIAMI — This is a story about a star who is now a substitute, a party animal who now gets up early, a playboy who is now engaged. In other words, this is a story about growing up, something Cris Collinsworth never thought he’d be good at.
“You should see me now, I’m like the old man on the team,” he says, shrugging his lean — and nearly 30 year-old — shoulders. “I get my kicks vicariously these days. I advise the younger players what lines to use on women. Like ‘This one used to work for me. Try it.’ “
He laughs. “They do OK, too.”
DID ILLINOIS PROVE ITSELF THE BETTER TEAM? YOU BET
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Well, now, you have an answer, those of you who thought Michigan’s basketball team was awesome, dominating, that the loss to puny Alaska-Anchorage was a fluke, a mosquito distracting a giant, that when it came to a real game, against a...
GLASSY SUPER BOWL FOR YOU BOTTLENECKS
THE LIVE ALBOM:* Well, I might as well get my Super Bowl prediction in right now. The final score will be 23-20.* That’s Bud Light 23, regular Bud 20. * Can you believe supposedly intelligent human beings will spend millions for an animated game between beer...
Knicks Stoke Fires Of Post-Season Rivalry
I see auto workers against cab drivers. I see Coleman against Koch. I see a Coney dog with onions against a corned beef sandwich with lots of fat.
I see Detroit versus New York.
Ugly.
“We beat them three times so far this season,” Patrick Ewing said after the Knicks’ 100-93 win over the Pistons Wednesday night at the Palace. “We got one more. And we plan to win that one.”
Bengals, Ickey Dance To Top Of Afc Chart
CINCINNATI — OK. Let’s see if we got this straight. You put your right foot in, you put your right foot out, you put the football in and you shake it all about, you do the Ickey Shuffle and you wiggle all ar–
Well. OK. So we’ll work on it. I guess we’ll have to. Because the Cincinnati Bengals — last year’s bargain in the AFC basement — are going to the Super Bowl to face the 49ers. Cincinnati? Yes. Cincinnati. With a platinum blond quarterback and a coach who goes from bum to genius and a cast named Boomer, Max, Turk, Krumrie, Buck, Billups and, of course . . . Ickey.
Nothing Is Forever, But Snepsts Endures
The man was hunched over the bar, his back to the crowd. A blond woman kept coming up to him. He would smile, then look down at his glass, until finally she went away.
“You know who he is,” someone said.
“Who?”
“That guy. That’s Harold Snepsts.”
I looked again. It was Harold Snepsts. This was last summer, a week or so after hockey season ended. I walked over.
I said, “Hey.”
He looked up wearily. Then, upon recognizing a familiar face, he smiled.
“Did you hear the news?” he asked.
“What news?”
FINALLY, IT’S BO’S SHOW
PASADENA, Calif. — He was running for all of them, for this Michigan team, and for every Michigan team that has ever come out here and had its face smeared with California egg. Someone grabbed his feet. He broke free. Someone wrapped around his thigh. He yanked...
Rose Bowl Script Pits Student Against Teacher
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — A great thinker once said: “To know a man, you must walk a mile in his shoes.” Or, barring that, you must at least learn his bathroom habits.
Well. That’s the way it worked for Larry Smith:
“It was back at Miami of Ohio, 1967. Bo Schembechler was head coach and we were his assistants. We were all living in Bo’s house — he was a bachelor then — and there was only one bathroom. Of course, since he was head coach, he got priority in using it.
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