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...offered a job on the sports staff of the Baltimore Evening Sun. A graduate of Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Md., he had no previous experience as a sportswriter, but he became so proficient that by 1971 he was writing a sports column for the Cincinnati Enquirer. After seven years there, he switched to the Washington Star, then joined TIME last summer. He likes writing about sports precisely because it doesn't deal with the monumental: "It isn't nuclear physics. When I was in California, floods and mud slides were killing people...
...20th Century. Statisticians at the National Weather Service were unwilling to go that far. Yet it was they who confirmed that, indeed, alltime low-temperature records were broken in Chicago (-26°F) and Augusta, Ga. (1°), among other places, while Atlanta ( - 5°), Milwaukee (-25°) and Cincinnati (-14°) had not been so cold since the 1800s. Single-day records for the date were set in Washington (2°), Philadelphia (1°), St. Cloud, Minn. ( - 30°), and in nine Florida cities, including Miami (33°), Orlando (23°) and Tallahassee (14°). The cold in Florida...
Starting today and continuing through next week, the sports pages of this and other newspapers will be filled with discussions of the upcoming Super Bowl contest slated to take place this weekend in Detroit between the Cincinnati Bengals and the San Francisco Forty-Niners. Every sportswriter in existence will feel compelled to add his or her two cents to the total of analyses, game and color stories, and past Super Bowl reminiscences that will crowd the new pages and ultimately bore the American populace to death. I, unfortunately, am one of those egotistical writers who yearn to impart a fresh...
This will be the first Super Bowl appearance in the 14-year history of the Cincinnati franchise...
...Francisco 49ers, a Cinderella team like Bengals, have never been to the Super Bowl, but they will meet Cincinnati in Pontiac two weeks from now by virtue of their 28-27 squeaker over the Dallas Cowboys yesterday at Candlestick Park. The 49ers clinched victory when they recovered a Danny White fumble with 30 seconds left as the Cowboys were driving to a winning score. Seconds earlier San Francisco quarterback Joe Montana, who three three touchdown passes on the day, had completed a six-yd. TD strike to Dwight Clark to give his team the lead in what had been...