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...DEADLY ROUNDUP AT SEA Pressure mounts to save the dolphin by restricting tuna fishing AND WITHIN MINUTES HALF A DOZEN POWERFUL SPEEDBOATS ARE LOWERED OVER THE SIDE INTO THE BRIGHT WATERS OF THE EASTERN PACIFIC. BURSTING INTO NOISY LIFE, THEY SLICE THROUGH THE CRESTING WAVE TOPS AT 35 KNOTS. DEAD AHEAD OF THEM, A POD OF PORPOISES, OR DOLPHINS, BOLT WITH FRIGHT, BUT THE FLEEING MARINE MAMMALS ARE SOON OVERTAKEN. LIKE COW PONIES ROUNDING UP CATTLE, THE SPEEDBOATS HERD HUNDREDS...
...news began to break on all sides. The Patriots went public with a drug problem that the Boston Globe had been privy to for weeks but had withheld from its readers primarily in the interest of completeness and probably also to some extent Patriotism. Confronted with rumors before the Dolphin play-off game, Coach Raymond Berry agreed to cooperate if the Globe would sit on the story until the season's end. "There are at least five players we know who have a serious problem," Berry confirmed, "and five to seven more whom we suspect very strongly." At a team...
...after last weekend's elimination of the Dallas Cowboys, the Los Angeles Raiders and, yes, even the New York Giants, anything less than a Miami Dolphin-Chicago Bear Super Bowl showdown would be a major disappointment to virtually all of America...
This has nothing to do with whether Pat's Pats deserve a shot at the world championship, though I doubt they do. Rather, it has to do with the fact that to deprive America of what it really wants, what it really needs--a Dolphin-Bear title game--would be akin to depriving it of a Yankee-Dodger World Series in lieu of a Mariner-Giant baseball battle, akin to depriving it of a Celtic-Laker Championship in lieu of a Cavalier-Maverick hoop hoedown, or akin to depriving it of an Ali-Frazier replay in lieu...
...always going to be successful, but everything's worked out great." Quarterbacks Elway, Todd Blackledge (Kansas City), Jim Kelly (Buffalo), Tony Eason (New England) and Ken O'Brien (New York Jets) all preceded Marino in the opening round, when San Diego passed him three times. Dolphin Personnel Man Charley Winner remembers that come the 27th pick, "Don didn't even turn to the staff and say, 'What do you think...