Word: moseses
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Can Moses Malone lead the Atlanta Hawks to the NBA promised land? Are the Cleveland Cavaliers mature enough to be a factor? Will Dallas become supreme in the West?
If the Hawks are going to win the NBA championship, this is the year. The Hawks are a terrific team with Moses Malone in the paint. Malone will complement Dominique Wilkins (30.7 p.p.g.). The Hawks took the Celtics to seven games in the Eastern semifinals last year.
Track and field, the quintessential Olympic sport, began with a weekend that saw excellence both extended and ended. The world's best woman athlete, American Jackie Joyner-Kersee, piled up 7,291 points in the heptathlon to break her own world record and win Olympic gold. Ben Johnson of Canada...
In terms of maturity, though, time seemed to tell at last on Edwin Moses, 33, who lost his bid for a third gold medal in the 400-meter hurdles. Moses, who freely admits that he is an old man in a young man's sport, won his first gold medal...
On a creaking knee, Jackie Joyner-Kersee won her heptathlon with a world- record demonstration of tossing and turning. "I'm sure I'm tired," she said, "but for some reason . . ." Before moving on to this week's long jump, she paused only to smile. "I'm blessed," she said...