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...corner, where his seconds recognized the obvious and had the fight stopped. To the Minter partisans, however, it appeared that the referee had stopped the fight on his own, and that he had done so unfairly. While Hagler celebrated his victory by dropping to his knees a la Bjorn Borg, the spectators took a different view, and showered the ring with beer bottles. A swarm of Bobbies surrounded Hagler and ushered him to safety...
...took this week's cover portrait of Alabama Football Coach Paul W. ("Bear") Bryant and the pictures accompanying the story, should be familiar to TIME'S readers: this is the fifth cover he has shot this year. The others: Olympic Skaters Eric and Beth Heiden, Tennis Superstar Bjorn Borg and the political portraits from this summer's Republican and Democratic conventions...
After that weflew to London, where I played in the Wimbledon warm-up tourney and,then, in the junior version of the granddaddy of all tennis tournaments, Wimledon. It was all really exciting, especially when Bjorn Borg was playing on the next court over. After his match ended, it seemed like the whole crowd came over to watch me. It was pretty cool...
Neither can Bjorn Borg, who won Wimbledon yet again against pesky John McEnroe in a splendid display of tennis. Nor can Tommy Hearns, who thumped the imposing welterweight Pipino Cuevas in a recent fisticuff duel that left even the boxing intelligentsia spouting nothing but superlatives. Nor can Roberto Duran, who showed that the impregnable wall of hype built up around welterweight Sugar Ray Leonard could be rammed through in a bare ring. Nor can the Soviet Olympic Committee, which continues to insists that the Olympics were an unmitigated triumph; nor can the U.S. Olympic Committee, which maintains that the Games...
...dull, gray morning in Bucharest. Two citizens enter a district city hall to exchange perfunctory "Da's " as required by law. Switch to Technicolor. Tennis Ace Bjorn Borg, in a blue blazer, no headband, and his love of four years, Rumanian Pro Mariana Simionescu, step outside into the bright sunlight and a cheering crowd of 2,000. Among them are 50 members of the Rumanian National Tennis Federation, who raise flower-bedecked racquets in a ceremonial arch. Kiss, smile, applause. Exeunt the couple in a Swedish Saab. Scene 2-Religious Ceremony. An unruly mob awaits the Borgs' arrival...