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- Sport
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- January 4, 1988
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- BEST TACK After retrieving the America's Cup from Australia, San
- Diego Yachtsman Dennis Conner had barely exhaled before New Zealand
- found a loophole in the old deed and issued a new challenge in an
- outsized maxiboat.
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- BEST DOUBLE PLAY Shades of all-around Athlete Jim Thorpe: Bo
- Jackson, who plays baseball for the Kansas City Royals and football
- for the Los Angeles Raiders, hit a 466-ft. homer and ran for a 91-yd.
- touchdown.
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- BEST STRATEGIST Railing against college basketball's three-point
- rule even as he mastered the strategy required for the 19-ft. 9-in.
- shot, Indiana Coach Bobby Knight led his third team to the national
- title in twelve years.
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- BEST COMEBACK Returning to the ring against everyone's wishes, Sugar
- Ray Leonard protected his repaired retina long enough to restore his
- crown in a startling upset of Middle-weight Champion Marvin Hagler.
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- BEST TRACK RECORDS Racing toward the 1988 Olympics, Canadian
- Sprinter Ben Johnson and American Heptathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- dazzled at the Rome world track-and-field championships by winning
- their events. After 122 consecutive victories, U.S. Superstar Edwin
- Moses lost in the 400-meter hurdles.
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- BEST SCUFF/SNUFF JOB Minnesota Pitcher Joe Niekro was caught with an
- emery board on the mound at the height of baseball's season-long
- tempest over scuffed balls and corked bats. A meaner illegal
- substance, cocaine, stymied Mets Pitcher Dwight Gooden.
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- BEST DRIVER Rewarded for a life of grace, Puerto Rico's Chi Chi
- Rodriquez, 52, won seven tournaments and $509,145 on golf's senior
- tour.
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- BEST NET GAIN Rubbing out more than the competition, stoical
- Czechoslovak Tennis Ace Ivan Lendl at last learned to smile.
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- BEST SIDELINE ACT Replacing striking football players for three
- curious weeks, dreamers donned uniforms for their days in the sun,
- taking over the N.F.L. long enough to gain a financial stake in the
- playoff payoffs.
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- BEST LESSON LEARNED Forty years after Jackie Robinson broke the
- color line, Los Angeles Dodgers Executive Al Campanis raised cries of
- racism by saying on ABC's Nightline that black players "may not have
- some of the necessities" to manage baseball teams, either on the
- field or in the front office.