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Things change pretty quickly in sports. Seven years ago, the Pittsburgh Steelers won the Super Bowl, Cincinnati beat the Red Sox 4-3 in the World Series, and Bill Rodgers won the Boston Marathon.
Most hot sportsmen of the '70s have gone the way of disco and C.B. radios, but when the runners line up in Hopkinton next Monday for the start of the Boston Marathon, Rodgers will be among the favorites once again.
Rodgers has won the annual classic four times, but this time around, he's not making any predictions about his chances. "At this point, it's a big question mark," he said in a telephone interview from a phone booth somewhere in Rhode Island.
Rodgers had one of his questions answered yesterday when New York Marathon champion Alberto Salazar decided to enter Boston.
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