Word: knievel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...average $35 a crack. Wrestling matches have proved an even bigger draw. Wrestlemania IV had a reported 900,000 takers last March (the largest audience yet claimed for a PPV event), and well-hyped ring battles like last week's Chi-Town Rumble '89 are coming almost monthly. Robbie Knievel, son of daredevil Evel, will attempt a motorcycle jump over the fountains at Las Vegas' Caesars Palace for a PPV event in April, and the supermiddleweight title fight between Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns will be offered over PPV in June...
...several of his undergraduate teammates both in and out of professional football. What if the 49ers had lost last week? "I'm a bad prognosticator," admits Callahan. "I went all the way to Africa to pick Foreman over Ali in 1974, and I picked the canyon over Evel Knievel the same year. Even so, this seemed like a worthy gamble...
...friendly with nearly everyone on the tour, including the Soviets, ignored this nonsense. His mood seemed easy and contented. Downhill racing takes nerve, he said, but not much else. "I like the speed, the thrill, but otherwise it's boring," he added, "a bit like Evel Knievel on his motorcycle." He was glad that the deciding race of the season was the giant slalom, the technically most demanding of the races. Next? asked a reporter. "A summer doing absolutely no skiing," was the answer. Then Mahre, with a grin, returned to the subject at hand. "Ah, but you know...
...following pages TIME presents the decade's memorable moments and fancied faces. The collection ranges from the triumph of the Bicentennial to the debacle of Saigon; from the grotesque suicides of Jonestown to the burlesgue success of Evil Knievel's Snake River plunge; and from the worst of Hearst to a terrific Tiegs...