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- January 6, 1986SPORTMOST OF '85
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- ROOKIE COUNTRY OF THE YEAR West Germany supplied the Masters
- golf and Wimbledon tennis champions, Bernhard Langer and Boris
- Becker, plus two N.B.A. first-rounders, Detlef Schrempf and Uwe
- Blab. Becker, 18, brought a new phrase to the tennis court:
- enfant wonderful.
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- OLDEST ENFANT TERRIBLE Slipping to No. 2 behind Ivan Lendl,
- John McEnroe momentarily acknowledged doubt and age, as if
- starting to grow both up and old at 26. But he closed his
- tennis year caterwauling again in Australia.
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- LEAST ROMANTIC HORSE Kentucky Derby Winner Spend a Buck took
- the money and ran to New Jersey.
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- SMALLEST FOOTBALL COACH Jimmy Johnson of the University of
- Miami kept kicking Notre Dame's Gerry Faust, 58-7, after he was
- not only down but out.
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- CLASSIC HITS, RUNS Pete Rose's 4,l92nd, Rod Carew's 3,000th,
- Tom Seaver's and Phil Niekro's 300th, Rusty Staub's last.
- George Brett finally had his world stage: Kansas City came back
- from 3-1 twice.
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- AND ERRORS Baseball struck itself for two days but was
- lambasted for weeks in a drug trial. Bill Martin found himself
- in a sling again after another barroom brawl. St. Louis fouled
- its splendid season, and after 41 wins in two years, Joaquin
- Andujar was traded.
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- MOST POIGNANT KNOCKOUT Overreaching for Rocky Marciano's 49-0
- record, Heavyweight Champion Larry Holmes lost everything with
- one slur.
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- FULLEST BASKETS Villanova's smiling sharpshooters won a
- national basketball title that touched even Gerogetown. Kareem
- Abdul-Jabbar lifted himself and the Los Angeles Lakers to an
- amazing height at 38. Point shavers rubbed out Tulane.
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- MOST CHECKERED FLAGS Racing cheered a speeding playboy, Indy
- 500 Winner Danny Sullivan. Hockey buried a playboy speeder,
- Philadelphia Flyers Goalie Pelle Lindbergh.
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- HUGEST IMPACT The Chicago Bears have manhandled the N.F.L.,
- but William Perry has moved the country. If there were two
- athletes of the year, the Refrigerator might be both.
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