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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prosperous of the two cities, watched with chagrin. Today Dallas is on the rise again, but Houston is not exactly somnolent. In a move that has made Dallas aghast, a group of Houston boosters is offering college football's Southwest Conference $3 million in cash to lure the postseason Cotton Bowl game from Dallas, where it has been played for the past 45 years. "They have more chance of moving the stadium than they do the game," declares John F. Scovell, president of the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association and a prominent Dallas real estate developer. Says Bentsen, who organized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Little Rivalry in Texas | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

...imaginative productions and varied repertory. Pianist Alicia Schachter and her film producer husband Sheldon Rich went to Santa Fe for a vacation in 1972. A year later they started the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Renowned players and composers now cherish its sustained intimacy and stay together for brief postseason tours in Seattle and New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Salzburg of the Southwest | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

Mike Schmidt powered a two-run homer, then triggered a ninth-inning Philadelphia rally with a single as the Phillies, true to their postseason form, came from behind for a 4-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals in Sunday's pivotal fifth World Series game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Philadelphia Rally in Ninth Gives Phils 4-3 Win, 3-2 Lead | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

...with the most victories in college-football history. His teams have won 23 games in a row, currently the longest winning streak in big-time college football. Bryant has taken teams to bowl games 26 times (a record); last season's Sugar Bowl appearance was the 21st consecutive postseason trip for Alabama's Crimson Tide (also a record). Under his stewardship, the polls gave Alabama the national championship six times. Bryant's teams have won 14 Southeastern Conference titles and a Southwest Conference crown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football's Supercoach | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

...trade before Christmas. Lane erased the Islanders' reputation as a team that was soft on the boards. But it was the arrival of Ken Morrow, the tall (6 ft. 4 in.), bearded defenseman from the gold-medal-winning U.S. Hockey Team, that sparked the Islanders' postseason resurgence. Morrow, who could become the first man ever to win Olympic gold and a Stanley Cup in the same year, bypassed the minor leagues and stepped directly into the Islanders' lineup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The New Jersey Turnpike Cup | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

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