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...tendency to employ his mouth and brain sequentially, but has an entrepreneur's penchant for bold ideas. He brings a shopkeeper's mentality to some costs, yet spends lavishly on quests such as the Goodwill Games, and doesn't want to get rid of favorite assets such as the Atlanta Braves. He abjures debt, but it almost drowned him after he bought MGM for about $1 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME FOR TURNER | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

...will be interesting to see what the Yanks do with Cecil Fielder in Atlanta. Tino's gotten it done all year long but he hasn't been a big producer for the Bombers in the post season...

Author: By Brian T. Garibaldi, | Title: Fall Classic | 10/19/1996 | See Source »

Just when you thought they were out of it, the Atlanta Braves came storming--and I mean storming--through, taking the last three games of the NLCS to advance to the World Series in New York. Down three games to one after a heartbreaking game four loss, the Braves outscored the St. Louis Cardinals 32-1 in taking the last three games of the series. What was the cause of this dramatic reversal...

Author: By Yair J. Listokin, | Title: Hotlanta | 10/18/1996 | See Source »

...which is launching its own women's league, the WNBA, next summer. But the ABL faces formidable challenges, with no national television exposure, no national ad campaign, and just one major sponsor, Reebok. Still, the success of the U.S. women's Olympic basketball team, which drew sellout crowds in Atlanta, and continually improving television ratings for college games like the NCAA Women's Final Four, have a number of people betting that a league can succeed. "What we saw at the Olympics was the U.S. Women's Dream Team drawing the largest crowds in the history of women's basketball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ABA Takes To The Court | 10/18/1996 | See Source »

...YORK CITY: On Monday, fans in St. Louis were busy calling their travel agents about cheap flights to New York and tickets to the Cardinals-Yankees series that appeared all but assured. That was before the Atlanta Braves dropped a 32-run bomb on the Cards. In winning the last three games of the best-of-seven series, Atlanta outscored St. Louis 32-1, an amazing string that was capped by a 15-0 win Thursday night that put the Braves back in the World Series for the fourth time in the last five years. Both teams are flush with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pitcher's World Series | 10/18/1996 | See Source »

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