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...Mario Cuomo victory in the New York Gubenatorial election this November to help propel their party's man into the White House, but his impending victory in New York may just be so much noise from a paper tiger. Cuomo's imminent defeat of Republican Andrew O'Rourke may seem to some like a prelude to a national liberal resurgence, but it is really the product of a packaging campaign, largely devoid of a political ideology...
Every September, as the baseball and football seasons converge, newcomers arrive to begin inheriting a game, minor-league baseball players in buses, major college football players in limousines. If they have always been connected, this year they seem entwined...
Second thoughts seem to have been written into his contract: Jackson is entitled to buy his way out of baseball and into football next July. "But I'm having too much fun for second thoughts," he says. "George Brett, Willie Wilson and Hal McRae rag me all day long." Since the football games have begun, he has been following the fortunes of contemporaries like the Los Angeles Raiders' naval attache Napoleon McCallum. But he feels no pangs. "I'm glad it's over and sad it's finished," Jackson says with a soft laugh...
Whenever a sensational crime makes the headlines these days, literary agents seem to arrive on the scene almost as fast as the lawyers, and movie producers are not far behind. Such was the case with R. Foster Winans, the former Wall Street Journal reporter and author of the paper's influential "Heard on the Street" column. Winans was convicted last year of fraud and conspiracy for leaking the contents of his articles before their publication to two New York stockbrokers, who traded on the information and earned nearly $700,000 in illegal profits. The reporter, who received...
Quarterbacks are always at peril, but they seem to be falling at an accelerated rate. The Bears' Jim McMahon, the Raiders' Marc Wilson and the Colts' Gary Hogeboom all have injured shoulders. A master at developing young quarterbacks, 49ers Coach Bill Walsh is left with Jack Kemp's son Jeff, 27, a substitute for five seasons with the Los Angeles Rams, and Journeyman Mike Moroski. Neither can be expected to match the two-time MVP of the Super Bowl. By a complicated system the N.F.L. employs for measuring quarterbacks, Miami's Dan Marino has just dislodged Montana as the highest...