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THE BANNERGRAPHIC December 26,1969

Roller coaster years Tyson, Montana, Magic, Gretzky and best performers of decade

By HALBOCK AP Sports Writer Sports in the 1980 s supplied abundance and achievement balanced by division and despair, a 10year roller coaster ride through the peaks and valleys of human emotion. It was a decade that changed the face of athletics from front office to field with an economic and performance revolution that left a distinct and permanent imprint. IT WAS MIKE Tyson, devastating boxing’s heavyweight division with fire in his eyes and rage in his fists, and Sugar Ray Leonard, cutting through layers of ring rust to stage an electrifying middleweight comeback. It was Magic Johnson and the Los Angeles Lakers, winning five championships and playing for the title three other times to establish a standard of continuing excellence rarely achieved in the NBA. It was Joe Montana and the San Francisco 49ers, claiming three Super Bowl titles. It was Wayne Gretzky, a superman on skates, raising hockey to a level rarely reached before he came along, and Nolan Ryan, who began the decade striking batters out with 90-plus mph fastballs and finished it the same way. IT WAS A Patrick Ewing slam dunk and a Mike Schmidt home run. It was Willie Shoemaker leading in the stretch at Churchill Downs and Jack Nicklaus marching majestically down the 18th fairway at Augusta, swallowed up on all sides by canyons of cheers. It was Martina and McEnroe, Akeem and Kareem. It was Bo and Coe, Flo Jo and Fernando. It was Carl Lewis winning four gold medals at Los Angeles, and Ben Johnson giving one back at Seoul. The moments and images are burned in the landscape. Tyson, who once chillingly mused over the prospects of a perfect punch that would drive an opponent’s nose into his brain, stood

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triumphantly over the twitching body of Trevor Berbick as the heavyweight championship passed to a new, frighteningly more efficient gladiator. For sustained action, however, nothing Tyson did matched the eight epic minutes of furious fighting in the parking lot of a I -as Vegas casino when Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns produced one of the most memorable non-heavyweight fights in history. For emotion, it’s hard to top goalie Jim Craig, wrapped in an American flag, frantically searching the stands for his father to share the moment as all around him a team of young U.S. hockey players rolled on the ice, celebrating the Miracle of Lake Placid, the unbelievable Olympic victory over the Soviet Union. There was injured Kirk Gibson, limping around the bases like a real-life Roy Hobbs after hitting what was arguably the most dramatic home run in World Series history, a two-out, two-strike shot in the bottom of the ninth inning that turned defeat into victory and gave Los Angeles the opening game over Oakland in the 1988 Series. There had been six previous game-ending World Series home runs and there would be another a few days later by Oakland’s Mark McGwire but all of them came in tied games and none reversed a result with the dramatic suddeness that Gibson’s shot did. There was outmanned Villanova in the classic David and Goliath match, playing virtually mistake-free basketball for an unlikely 66-64 victory over powerhouse Georgetown to win the NCAA tournament in 1985. There was North Carolina State’s Lorenzo Charles dunking at the buzzer to beat the dunkers, Houston’s Phi Slamma Jamma, in the 1983 NCAA championship game. There was black quarterback Doug Williams throwing four

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touchdown passes and Washington scoring on five consecutive possessions in a record-setting second quarter blitz that destroyed Denver and more than a few racial stereotypes in the 1988 Super Bowl. There was Joe Montana taking San Francisco 92 yards in the final three minutes to beat Cincinnati in the 1989 Super Bowl and claim the 49ers’ third world championship of the decade. There was Boston’s Bill Buckner, wearing hightop shoes to protect his fragile ankles, reaching futiley for Mookie Wilson’s grounder that scooted through his legs, climaxing an unlikely twoout, two-strike 10th inning rally that rescued the New York Mets from almost certain defeat in the sixth game of the 1986 Work! Series, a Series they would win by coming from behind again in Game 7. The highs, however, were balanced by lows. All-American Len Bias, picked second in the NBA draft just two days earlier by the Boston Celtics, being carried out of his dormatory, dead of a cocaine overdose, the tragic end of a brilliant basketball career. The sorry spectre of Ben Johnson, forced to surrender his gold medal at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul when steroids showed up in his post-race urine sample, costing him victory and a world record in his 100-meter showdown with Carl Lewis. Disruptive player strikes in baseball and football, shutting both sports down during their seasons. Baseball hung out the “No Game Today” sign for eight weeks in the summer of 1981, and the NFL closed down for 57 days in 1982. The scenario was repeated later, a two-day baseball walkout in 1985 followed in 1987 by a 24-day football strike during which tire league hired replacement players and continued to stage games.

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NFL Football Final National Football League At A Glance By The Associated Press AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pet PF PA x-Buffalo 9 7 0 .563 409 317 Indianapolis 8 8 0 .500 298 301 Miami 8 8 0 .500 331 379 New England 5 11 0 .313 297 391 NY. Jets 4 12 0 .250 253 411 Central x-Cleveland 9 6 1 .594 334 254 y-Houston 9 7 0 .563 365 412 y-Pinsburgh 9 7 0 .563 265 326 Cincinnati 8 8 0 .500 404 285 West x-Denver 11 5 0 .688 362 226 Kansas City 8 7 1 .531 318 286 LA. Raiders 8 8 0 .500 315 297 Seattle 7 9 0 .438 241 327 San Diego 6 10 0 .375 266 290 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pet PF PA x-N.Y. Giants 12 4 0 .750 348 252 y-Philadelphia 11 5 0 .688 342 274 Washington 10 6 0 .625 386 308 Phoenix 5 11 0 .313 258 377 Dallas 1 15 0 .063 204 393 Central x-Minnesota 10 6 0 .625 351 275 Green Bay 10 6 0 .625 362 356 Detroit 7 9 0 .438 312 364 Chicago 6 10 0 .375 358 377 Tampa Bay 5 11 0 .313 320 419 West x-S. Francisco 14 2 0 .875 442 253 y-LA. Rams 11 5 0 .688 426 344 New Orleans 9 7 0 .563 386 301 Atlanta 3 13 0 .188 279 437 x-Division champion y-Gained wild-card playoff berth Saturday’s Games Buffalo 37, New York Jets 0 Washington 29, Seattle 0 Cleveland 24, Houston 20 Sunday’s Games Detroit 31, Atlanta 24 Green Bay 20, Dallas 10 New Orleans 41, Indianapolis 6 Kansas City 27, Miami 24 New Yak Gurus 34, Los Angeles Raiders 17 Los Angeles Rams 24, New England 20 Philsdelphia 31, Phoenix 14 Pittsburgh 31. Tampa Bay 22 San Francisco 26, Chicago 0 San Diego 19, Denver 16 Monday’s Game Minnesota 29, Cincinnati 21 End Regular Season

NFL Playoffs NFL Playoffs At A Glance By The Associated Press All Times EST Wildcard Sunday, Dec. 31 NFC Los Angeles Rams at Philadelphia, 12:30 p.m. AFC Pittsburgh at Houston, 4 p.m. Divisional Playoffs (Times TBA) Saturday, Jan. f and Sunday, Jan. 7 AFC Buffalo at Cleveland Pittsburgh-Houston winner at Denver NFC Minnesota at San Francisco or New York Giants Riiladelphia at San Francisco (if Rtilaielphii wins wild-card game) Los Angeles Rama at New York Giants (if Los Angeles wins wild-card game) Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 14 Super Bowl XXTV Sunday, Jan. 28 Pro Bowl Sunday, Feb. 4 At Honolulu AFC vs. NFC

Football College Bowl Game* At A Glance By The Aaaocialed Free* All Time* EST Saturday, Dec. 9 California Bowl At Frwio, Calif. Fnaw St. 27, Ball St. 6 Saturday, Dec 1( Independence Bowl At Shreveport, La. Oregon 27. Tul** 24 Monday, Dec. 25 Bitted ray Classic At Montgomery, Ala. Gray 28, Blue 10 Aloha Bowl At Honolulu Michigan St. 33, Hawaii 13 Thunday, Dec. 28 All American Bowt At Birmingham, Ala. IXike (8-3) v*. Tec a* Tech (8-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Liberty Bowl At Mem phi*, Itnn. Air Force (8-3-1) v*. Mi**i««ippi (7-4), 8 p.m. (Raycom) Friday, Dec. 29 Holiday Bowl AtSaa Diego Form Sc (7-3-1) v*. Brigham Young (10-2), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 39 John Hancock Bowl At El Paso, Tex a* Pitubumh (7-3-1) vs. Texa* AAM (8-3), 12:30 pm. (CBS) Freedom Bowl At Anaheim, Calif. Washington (7-4) v*. Florida (7-4), 2 pm. (NBC)

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Peach Bowl At Atlanta Georgia (6-5) vs. Syracuse (7-4), 2:30 pm. (ABC) Gator Bowl At Jacksonville, Fla. West Virgini* (8-2-1) vs. Clemson (9-2), 8 pm. (ESPN) Sunday, Dec. 31 Copper Bowl At Tucson, Arix. North Carolina St. (7-4) vs. Arizona (7-4), 8 pm. (TBS) Monday, Jan. 1 Halt of Fame Bowl At Tampa, Fla. Auburn (9-2) vs. Ohio k (8-3), 1 pm. (NBC) Citrus Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Virginia (10-2) vs. Illinois (9-2), 1:30 pm. (ABC) Cotton Bowl At Dallas Arkansas (10-1) v*. Tennessee (10-1), 1:30 pm. (CBS) Fiesta Bowl At Tfempe, Ariz. Nebraska (10-1) vs. Florida St (9-2), 4:30 pm. (NBC) Rose Bowl At Pasadena, Calif. Michigan (10-1) vs Southern Cal (8-2-1). 5 pm. (ABC) Sugar Bowl Alabama (10-1) vs. Miami. Fla. (10-1), 7:30 pm. (ABC) Orange Bowl At Miami Notre Dame (11-1) vs. Colorado (11-0), 8 pm. (NBC)

NBA Basketball National Basketball Association At A Glance By The Aasociated Press Ail Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pet GB New York 17 7 .708 Philadelphia 14 10 .583 3 Boston 14 11 .560 3V4 Washington 12 13 .480 514 New Jersey 7 18 .280 10V4 Miami 7 20 .259 11 Vk Central Division Atlanta 16 9 .640 Chicago 16 9 .640 Indians 15 9 .625 V 4 Demit 16 10 .615 V 4 Milwaukee 12 13 .480 4 Cleveland 10 14 .417 5t4 Orlando 9 17 .346 7V4 WESTERN CONFERENCE Midwest Division W L Pet GB San Antonio 17 6 .739 Denver 17 9 .654 ltt Utah 16 9 .640 2 Dallas 13 12 .520 5 Houston 12 14 .462 6V4 Minnesota 5 20 .200 13 Charlotte 4 19 .174 13 Pacific Division LA. Lakers 19 6 .760 Portland 18 8 .692 IV4 Seattle 12 12 .500 6V4 Phoenix 10 12 .455 7V4 Golden Sute 10 14 .417 BV4 LA. Clippen 9 14 .391 9 Sacramento 6 18 .250 12V4 Saturday’s Games New York 94. Mew Jersey 85 Philadelphia 131, Chicago 104 Denver 135, Miami 104 Detroit 106, Orlando 100 Milwaukee 94, Minnesota 90 Dallas 102, Sacramento 95 San Antonio 115, Utah 98 Phoenix 104, Lot Angeles Clippen 100 Indiana 98. Seattle 95 Sunday’s Gamas No games scheduled Monday’s Game Atlanta 115, Cleveland 104 Tuesday’s Games Washington at New Jersey, 7:30 pm. San Antonio at Charlotte, 7:30 pm. New Yack at Miami, 7:30 p.m. Orlando at Indiana, 7:3opm. Boston at Los Angeles Clippen, 8 pm. Minnesota at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Houston tt Milwaukee, 8:30 pm. Philadelphia at Denver, 9:30 pm. Golden State at Utah, 9:30 p.m. Portland at Jhoenix, 9:30 pm. Sacramento at Los Angeles Laken, 10:30 pm.

Top 25 The Top Twenty Five By The Associated Press The Top Twenty Five teams in the Associated Pram college baaketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 24, total points based on 25-24-23-22-21-20-19-18-17-16-15-14-13-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 and last week's ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1. Syracuse (33) 8-0 1,501 1 2. Kansas (20 11-0 1,469 2 3. Georgetown (7) 8-0 1*439 3 4. Illinois (1) 8-0 1,368 5 5. Michigan 8-1 1,252 6 6. Oklahoma 5-0 1,180 7 7. Missouri 9-1 1.116 4 8. Louisville 8-1 1,042 9 9. 5-1 1,021 8 10. Indiana 8-0 992 11 11. Arkansas 7-1 974 10 12 Nev.-Las Vegas 5-2 923 13 13. Duke 5-2 838 12 14. Georgia Tech 6-0 801 14 15. Memphis St. 6-1 530 17 16 UCLA 61 520 18 17. St. John’s 9-2 472 19 IS. lowa 7-1 359 16 19. N. Carolina Sl 7-2 355 15 20. La Salle 5-0 354 23 21. Arizona 3-2 319 22 22 Alabama 7-2 210 20 23. Oregon St. 6-2 140 21 24. North Carolina 6-4 124 25. Minnesota 7-1 101 Other receiving votes: Loyola Msrymount 96. Michigan Sl 94. Oklahoma St 77. Texas 67.

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Qonsen 64, Aik.-Little Rock 38, Virginia 36, _ Scton Hall 30, E. Tennessee St. 26 Florida 23, . Wake Forest 23. Xavier. Ohio 19. SW Louisiana' 18, Notre Dame 16 Georgia IS, Lang Beech St. * 12 Pittsburgh 11. Stanford 11, New MexiooSt. 10, „ UC Santa Barbara 9, Purdue 7, Temple 7, Colorado St. 5, Hawaii 4, Idaho 4, Maryland 4, Ala.-Birmin- " gham 3, Bowling Green 3, Connecticut 3, Brigham Young 2 Mississippi St. 2, Penn St. 2, Providence J 2 SW Missouri Sl 2, Ball Sl 1, Colorado l*Flonda Sl 1, Louisiana Toch 1, Texas-El Paso 1,

Saturday’s College Basketball EAST Connecticut 100, S. Connecticut 37 “-•’ Hartford 71, Fairfield 59 Providence 78, Utah 67 Sl John’s 83, Niagara 51 Temple 93, Duquesne 62 SOUTH Duke 74, Washington 64 Florida 91, South Florida 54 Furman 77, Villanova 73, OT Memphis Sl 96, Jackson Sl 73 Middle Term. 85, Alcorn Sl 76 North Carolina 79, Kansas Sl 63 ' South Alabama 85, New Orleans 73 Vandertflt 100, Samfard 76 MIDWEST Akron 83, Wii.-Milwaukee 56 Ball State 63, Butler 42 Bradley 85, Georgia Southern 77, OT Dayton 97, Miami, Ohio 81 l, DePaul 71, Marquette 62 Drake 87, Morgan Sl 69 Evansville 88, Siena 83 Illinois 71, Wis.-Green Bay 47 Indiana 115, lowa State 66 “ Kent Sl 73, Cleveland Sl 70 Michigan State 87, Eastern Michigan 73 * Minnesota 81, Northern Illinois 62 SW Missouri Sl 77, Wyoming 51 £ Sl Louis 77, Colorado 72 * . Toledo 74, Pittsburgh 68 Wichita Sl 82 Fresno Sl 62 SOUTHWEST Arkansas 92 VMI6I Texas 73, Southern Moth. 67 Texas-El Paso 88, Sam Houston Sl 65 FAR WEST California 85, Brigham Young 63 Colgate 91, U.S. International 88 Colorado Sl 93. North Texas 70 Hawaii 70, Western Illinois 54 Idaho 95. UC San Diego 54 Michigan 91, Secon Hall 86 Montana Sl 81, Stephen FAiutm 69 \ Nev.-Las Vegas 97, lows 80 •*’« Oklahoma 136, Loyola Msrymount 121 S. Illinois 96, Hawtii-Hilo 61 San Jose Sl 65, Idaho Sl 57 Southern Cal 76, Sl Francis, Pa. 73 • UC Santa Barbara 89, Boston U. 68 •' UCLA 87. Fullerton St. 75 Weber Sl 66, Southern Utah 65 TOURNAMENTS Chaminade Christmas Clasric Third Place *: Coppin Sl 86, Cornell 79 George Mason 79, East Carolina 63 • ’ Semifinals •' Maryland 91, East Tennessee SL 86 "• Kentucky Invitational ChamukmshlD SW Louisiana 116, Kentucky 113 Third Place Cincinnati 75, Portland S 3 Lobo In vitlabonal Championship New Mexico 91, Detroit 64 * Third Place Maine 73, Dartmouth 72 ’ Met Life Classic Championship Xsvier, Ohio 78, San Francisco 62 Third Place Princeton 73, Caniaiua 59 Indiana High School Baaketball Saturday’s Games Cannerxville 60, Seymour 52 Covington 73, Attica 58 Fountain Central 72 Seger 48 Twin Lakes 92 Rensselaer 70 TOURNAMENT Banks of the Wabash Classic Championship North Vemullion 61, Turkey Run 57 Wrestling INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The Indiana Hifh School Wrestling Coaches Association Top 20 teams: 1. Evansville Mater Dei 2 Delta 3. Warren Central 4. Decatur Central 5. Chesterton 6. Indianapolis Ben Davis 7. Princeton 8. Franklin County 9. Noblerville 10. Muncie South 11. Beech Grove 12 Martimville 13. Huntington North 14. Western * 15. Adams Central . 16 Merrillville ■ 17. Warsaw 18. Portage 19. Calumet 20. Carmel • Transactions : Holiday Weekend Sports Transactions * By The Associated Prm BASKETBALL National Basketball Association BOSTON CELTICS—Waived Kelvin Up***. ® U LOS ANGELES LAKERS—-Signed Jay Viacom. forward. *». MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES—Activtmd Scott Roth, forward, from the injured Bsl Waifod Adrian Branch, guard. - FOOTBALL National Football League MIAMI DOLPHlNS—Activated Tony MarJJn, wide receiver, from the developmental aquad. MINNESOTA VlKlNGS—Activated Davtd Braxton, linebacker, from injured reserve. Waived Tun Newton, defensive tackle. ■i

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