The Cowboys, the Indian, and the Computer That Fumbled
The most important new addition to the Dallas Cowboys is a veteran from the team’s early years —computer genius Salam Qureishi.
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The most important new addition to the Dallas Cowboys is a veteran from the team’s early years —computer genius Salam Qureishi.
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Okay, now, listen up. This story is about Bill Yeoman, a really good football coach. Read it or run three laps after practice.
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Though he fought against bad management, bad coaching, and bad habits, he finally struck out at baseball, the victim of too much too soon.
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Bobby Morrow was America’s most celebrated Olympic athlete in 1956. Today he wishes he’d never left the starting blocks.
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Football recruiting makes the NCAA see red, but SMU sees orange.
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In hiring football coach Jackie Sherrill, the A&M regents were acting life shrewd businessmen, but that may not be the best way to run a university.
Four hundred Texans breed and train an uncommon kind of livestock—greyhounds.
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All this twenty-year-old University of Houston student wants to do is jump farther and run faster than anyone else ever has.
The Hendricks brothers are pros at making money - for themselves as well as for the pros they represent.
Lamar University’s hotshot basketball team makes lost of hoops, little hoopla.
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The Houston Rockets need work; the Dallas Mavericks need help.
After a sloppy 1979-80 season, the San Antonio Spurs had no coach, no center, and no end to their problems. But all that has changed.
Football has degenerated into a routine encounter between two sets of programmed, steroid-stuffed robots. These trick plays could change all that.
Two brave bulls stood between Paco Olivera and the prize he had worked for all his life.
The Astros are packing ‘em in with a great new pitch—a sales pitch.
If throwing a spitball is an art, Gaylord Perry is Michelangelo.
In a big fight you can outwit, outhit, or outlast your opponent. But you’d better not try to outeat him.
Talk to coaches and team owners about AstroTurf and you’ll hear all its advantages. Talk to the players and you’ll hear a different story.
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Pickup basketball is not a pastime for the lily-livered or the lackadaisical.
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The difference between eleven-man and six-man football is a lot more than five men.
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One week with a thousand cheerleaders.
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This is the Houston Rockets. We have lift-off.
The rodeo where it really doesn’t pay to win.