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...have three quarterbacks in their 40s as of next week, when Tennessee backup Dave Krieg enters middle age. Seattle Seahawks starter Warren Moon is 41, and Atlanta Falcons backup Steve DeBerg, at 44, is the age of Manning and Leaf combined. Oakland Raider backup Wade Wilson is 39; Denver Bronco John Elway, 38; and Minnesota's Randall Cunningham, 35, came out of retirement two years ago and threw for 442 yards and four touchdowns Oct. 5 to slay the Green Bay Packers. "Elway talks about retiring," Madden says, "and I said, 'John, why retire? You can play another 10 years...
Even at 8 in the morning, Austin, Texas, is as hot and sticky as a locker room. I am on the hotel patio, waiting for the lineup for tonight's semifinal bouts to be posted, wondering how long we can stay in the saddle of this bucking bronco called Slam. "We" are the Los Angeles team--Thea Iberall, Poetri (yes, his name is Poetri), Jerry Quickley and I--four poets, linked by a love of words and a passion for competition. We are in Austin to sling verse and reap scores in the ninth--and largest--National Poetry Slam...
...same story (in the near future, one human man is surrounded by handsome humanoids). Niccol says the only source material he needed for The Truman Show was his own paranoia. "I often felt people were lying to me," he declares. But as the '90s devolved into media spectacles of Bronco chases, freeway suicides and Jerry Springer grudge matches, the conceit of TV as worldwide psychodrama seemed prescient. "I used to think the idea was ludicrously farfetched," Niccol says, "but now I have to wonder...
Simpson is still a hero to many Americans. But I continue to have some questions for him: What was the chase in your Bronco (with the gun, passport and disguise) really about? Also, you spent lots of money to hire some of America's best lawyers to defend you--which you needed to do. You spent lots of money traveling to the Bahamas, Florida and Europe. But why haven't you spent more money to hire America's best private detectives to try to find Ron and Nicole's killer(s)? What are we missing, O.J.? Please be our hero...
...black, part Native American heroine of A Yellow Raft in Blue Water. You couldn't help falling for Rayona. She was plucky, pretty, buffeted by fate (her Indian mother Christine dies during the novel, and Elgin, her lackadaisical black father, is seldom seen) and crazy enough to enter a bronco-riding contest disguised...