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Until comedian Dennis Miller's debut as an announcer on ABC's Monday Night Football last week, I had not watched an NFL game since Black Sunday, January 1979. By which I mean, Super Bowl XIII. I was then a Dallas Cowboys diehard. When the Pittsburgh Steelers beat America's Team 35-31, I cried like a girl, because that's what I was, a nine-year-old in a Cowboys T shirt. Cradling the Roger Staubach-autographed football I had received for Christmas (which he had graciously signed despite the fact that my well-meaning mother had sent...
...their idea of a union leader, most folks might describe a paunchy guy who has the morals of a Mafia capo but with less colorful language and a cheaper suit. Or they'd think of the least representative members of organized labor, professional athletes. Strikes in the NBA, the NFL and Major League Baseball offer the spectacle of pampered millionaires demanding still more millions of dollars from their clubs and, ultimately, their fans. They have also deprived the American male of his constitutional right to get drunk watching large men collide with one another...
...while, but I finally found something that someone my size can be very good at," says Haworth. "It's an individual and straightforward sport: either you can lift the weight or you can't." Haworth uses her speed (she can run the 40-yd. dash in an NFL-like 5 sec.) and her power (she can jump an NBA-like 34 in.) to routinely, and repeatedly, lift a groaning bar with a couple hundred pounds. Buff football players pass by, not even bothering to hide their admiration. In competition she has lifted 264 lbs. in the snatch (lifting the weight...
...political conventions have been deemed newsworthy again - sort of - by ABC, which has decided that simply having Dennis Miller in the booth was not enough reason to relegate its convention coverage to halftime of two preseason telecasts of "Monday Night Football." The new plan, with an OK from the NFL: Start the games at 7 p.m. instead of 8, and whatever's still on in Philly and L.A. after the game will have the network's undivided attention...
...that's good, because, unlike the NBA or NFL All-Star games (quick, name anyone other than Alonzo Mourning who played defense in the NBA game), baseball's is actually played for pride and taken somewhat seriously - remember Pedro's strikeouts last year? Dave Parker's throw in '79? Pete Rose's cheap shot on Ray Fosse? And that's especially true of the new guys, just happy to be there and working hard to win one for the league...