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...would seem to be especially fleeting, and from third place down it is. "You want to grab every moment and enjoy it fully," says Barbara Potter, a self- described "middle-aged tennis player of 23." Yet the joint proprietors of women's tennis, sharers of the past 15 grand-slam events going back to 1981, are the oldest members of the top ten. Coming to their fifth final at Wimbledon, Navratilova, 28, and Evert Lloyd, 30, had met 65 times over twelve years and stood one victory apart. The most enduring rivals in sports, they represent a conflict more fascinating...
Even Bird comes back to the bench sometimes and hears, "Hey, we don't need that shot." Celtics can talk to one another this way. Says Carr: "Someone might tell me, 'You're goofing around too much. Cool it.' O.K. But we're together slam-dunking the ball with Parish, together stealing it with Dennis Johnson. And when Bird goes off on one of his games, we're excited for ourselves...
...Francisco cabby with a master's degree in English, remains cheerfully unaffected by the trend to lighter drinking. He may have a beer at lunch, perhaps a Manhattan cocktail or wine at dinner during the week, and he drinks every weekend as well. "I've continued to slam down the hard stuff with as much alacrity as ever," he says. Indeed, for every yuppie who has traded in vodka for mineral water, there seems to be a social drinker like Kamiya clinging to the old ways--or a teenager taking up a habit he may not be able to handle...
McAndres did a good joh himself, breaking open a 2-1 game in the seven-run fifth with his first collegiate grand slam homer...
...reinstated, hard work will not be rewarded commensurately and the notion of equality of opportunity will be dealt a serious blow. When Bonker concludes that "the financial and party is over" one has to wonder why it is that the last one invited is always the first to slam the door...