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Wrong. Almost every great rivalry in the NFL is based on geographical proximity. There's only one exception to this rule: the Cowboys against the Redskins. But all the rest--Giants-Eagles, Giants-Redskins, Bears-Vikings, Bears-Packers, 49ers-Rams, Raiders-Chargers, Browns-Steelers--involve two cities near each other...
...went on strike during the 1984 World Championships in California's Hermosa Beach to protest conditions. Since then, A.V.P. organizer Leonard Armato, a former player and an attorney with a Los Angeles law firm that represents such athletes as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Ronnie Lott of the San Francisco 49ers, has helped the players win control of tournament profits, concession sales, TV contracts and endorsement fees...
...read gambling between the lines of a lot of my hate mail," says Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson. Bill Walsh of the San Francisco 49ers speaks of "those low, throaty, ominous" boos when the home football team sits on a small lead, the point spread be damned. "I think there's an element of it everywhere," Bobby Knight says. "I think there are coaches who bet. I think there are referees who bet. I think there are plenty of sportswriters...
...Dodgers' Orel Hershiser capped his nearly scoreless autumn by yielding a Ruthian homer to Fujio Tamura of the Nippon Ham Fighters ("I was told he couldn't hit a curve ball"). But Japan is importing all sports now, and the Los Angeles Rams will confront the San Francisco 49ers there in August...
Steckel went on to be an assistant for the San Francisco 49ers in 1978 before joining the Vikings...