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...black athletes to boycott white-sponsored events, including the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. At Cornell, where he earned a doctorate, Edwards was a mediator in an armed ) revolt by blacks on campus. Now a sports sociology professor at University of California, Berkeley, and a consultant to the San Francisco 49ers, Golden State Warriors and Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth, Edwards is challenging the American sports establishment from the inside. On the eve of Bill White's debut as the first black president of the National League, Edwards, 46, talked with TIME's Dennis Wyss about his efforts to break through...
Meanwhile, Brown retrieved Wyche five years ago to coach Cincinnati -- as it happens, the 49ers' opponent this Super Sunday in Miami. For the first time in many a Roman numeral, perhaps in the whole stolid history of the most consistently disappointing annual spectacle in America, a two-sided chess match is not only promised but guaranteed. The only question about Walsh and Wyche is which of them is wormier with ideas. Their imaginations are so active that the very canons of the sport are under strain. The National Football League is worried...
Public opinion has never stampeded Brown, 80. In fact, it has tended to lock him in place. In 1950, after the short-lived All-America Football Conference disbanded, the leftover 49ers and Browns were derisively absorbed into the N.F.L. "They don't even have a football," remarked first commissioner Elmer Layden. Before Cleveland's big-league debut against the champion Philadelphia Eagles, Brown gathered his rinky-dinks all around -- players with names like Groza, Motley and Graham -- and delivered a pep talk of two sentences. Referring to the star of both the Eagles and the league, he said dryly, "Just...
...Browns won the game that night, the title that year and the decade on balance. Montana is Van Buren now, and it is the decade that the 49ers are after. For the first time in his ten seasons, San Francisco's darling quarterback has had an internal rival, one with the disturbing name of Steve Young. Montana is only 32 but has charted enough maladies, highlighted by back surgery two years ago, to feel older. His favorite receiver and off-field running mate, Dwight Clark, 32, retired with creaky knees this season. "Losing Clark," coach Walsh theorizes, "may have started...
SPORT: It' s a real contest this year, as the XXIII version of the ultimate football game rematches the 49ers and the Bengals...