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...comparison, basketball's only $2 million men are Moses Malone and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Neither the NFL nor the NHL can boast any yearly salaries higher than $2 million...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: No Match for Pretzels and Souvenir Pucks | 5/29/1987 | See Source »

This suggestion will be condemned as sacrilegious by purists, but at least it is honest. It realizes that colleges serve as minor leagues for the NBA and NFL, and it realizes that most college athletes are not very good at passing even the mickeymouse courses in which they are enrolled...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Play Ball | 4/21/1987 | See Source »

...biggest complaints about the NFL's Super Bowl is that it has become too much of a media spectacle and too little of a football game. The participating players and coaches spend two full weeks trying to unnerve the opposition with secretive quotes and overly-modest remarks on television and in the nation's newspapers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adam's Ribbings | 3/13/1987 | See Source »

More than anything else, Hoosiers resembles one of those NFL Game of the Week films, with the pounding score and super-slow motion. But there, at least, you generally give a damn about the teams that are playing. Here, you really are given no motivation, beyond the need to create in your mind a reasonable explanation for the driving synthetic soundtrack and didactic, pedestrian dialogue...

Author: By David A. Shaywitz, | Title: Cinema Veritas | 2/27/1987 | See Source »

...NFL Commisioner Pete Rozelle would be proud of the parity in the ECAC this season. Behind Harvard in the league is Yale, with a 7-2 record. Colgate and St. Lawrence--in third place--have six wins. Four teams are bunched together with five wins, while two more have four each...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: Falling From the Heavens | 1/16/1987 | See Source »

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