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...seven-foot, 270-lb. Trailblazer is the most improved player in the NBA and could become the NBA's newest superstar...
...thieves doing with their booty? Taking advantage of a recent boom in recycling, which generates an estimated $700 million a year, by selling it to scrap dealers who lately have raised their prices. Last year in Detroit, the price of aluminum leaped from 20 cents to 45 cents per lb. "When they go to the scrapyard," fumes Detroit community activist Pat Bosch, "no questions are asked." For law-abiding citizens already beleaguered by drug- trafficking, arson and the indifference of the city administration, aluminum thievery is the last straw. "They're devastating the city," complains Sophie Sroczynski, who had siding...
Jose Canseco, 24, the 6-ft. 3-in., 230-lb. Cuban (who, Detroit wordsmith Sparky Anderson says, "is built like a Greek goddess") homered in all the other games and persisted in stealing bases too. His 40-40 distinction in those cross categories ought to combine with Hershiser's record 59 zeroes to make quite a noise. In these anabolic times, a Washington reporter with only the evidence of his eyes has been able to incite chants of "ster-oids, ster- oids" in the bleacher sections around Canseco. But Jose has the grace to grin and make a muscle...
...eight first-round N.B.A. draft picks on the team, they were ambushed in the semis by a seasoned Soviet squad, 82-76. Led by their 7-ft. 3-in. center Arvidas Sabonis and a veteran corps of deadeye 3-point shooters, the Soviets used superior height and a 25-lb.-per-man weight advantage to jam the lanes with a sagging zone defense and thwart U.S. drives on the basket. U.S. coach John Thompson had loaded up on defensive players in picking his team, and since his best outside shooter was benched with an injury, there was no credible...
...hear the bird screeching?" crows bass Don Bagley as he juggles the 40-lb. silver trophy. "It makes the hair stand on your neck." Bagley, 48, exults, "It's taken me 27 years to get up here. It will take 27 to get down...