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...amateurs too) in speed and agility. Staff Writer Philip Taubman, who wrote this week's cover story on football's Pittsburgh Steelers, is a weekend tennis buff, but he has warily declined opportunities to play Jimmy Connors and other stars he meets while working. Reporter-Researcher Jay Rosenstein had a typically humbling experience while interviewing the Steelers' defensive tackle "Mean" Joe Greene at his Texas home for this week's story. At one point Rosenstein looked up from his note pad and noticed that Greene's two-year-old daughter had fallen into the swimming...
Later on, Rosenstein tried a short workout in the minigym that Greene has in his garage, but soon found that playing with Mean Joe's outsized bodybuilding gear was only good for "developing a dwarf complex." None of these considerations trouble Sport section Senior Editor Martha Duffy, however. Her favorite athletes happen to be race horses. They can usually be watched from the safety of a warm clubhouse and need never be interviewed...
...last week Larry Csonka, 28, was back at his 400-acre farm retreat in Lisbon, Ohio, preparing to settle in with his wife and two sons for his first fall in 17 years without football. "When my kids register for school here," he told TIME's Jay Rosenstein, "their father's occupation will be listed either as 'unemployed' or 'who knows...
Taubman continued his study of the superstar's style - both on and off the court - during interviews with his tennis-pro mother Gloria Connors and his Wimbledon-winning sometime fiancée Chris Evert. Reporter-Researcher Jay Rosenstein talked to Connors' manager Bill Riordan, tennis officials and a courtful of American and Australian pros, including Newcombe. When Rosenstein grew up in Brooklyn, his game was boxball, a kind of street tennis that is played with a "Spaldeen pinkie" ball on a court made up of sidewalk squares. "These pros have a certain panache," Rosenstein concedes, "but they couldn...
...trademark of the Australian pro game that Rosenstein noted in the course of his reporting was a deep loyalty to the strong Sydney-brewed beers that some Australian pros bring with them when they play in the U.S. Interviewing Newcombe at a tournament in Tucson, Ariz., Rosenstein observed that despite an outward display of confidence, "he was taking Connors very seriously." The clue: an uncharacteristic glass of milk instead of beer with Newcombe's roast beef sandwich...