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The True Fan peered out at the summer of 1981: before him stretched an endless, bleak expanse of weeks abruptly and unnaturally empty. He imagined all the stadiums padlocked, their sweet geometries of green so still that one could hear the Astroturf growing. The lazy summer inevitability that has always...
"Morale seems to be good," Teske says. "People are putting up with the hard work...and it is hard work." To be put out on the river two hours every day (oh, you do get Sundays off), running stadiums, the dreaded ergometer battles, and plenty of conditioning is no picnic...
Throughout the land, college football stadiums yawn empty and forlorn, awaiting the contests of next fall. But in one important respect, next fall has already arrived: the recruiting war, the annual midwinter crusade to corner the market on high school football flesh, has begun. College coaches have abandoned their campuses...
Many tourists expected that the Games were going to be used as a Soviet showcase. In fact, the loudspeaker systems outside the stadiums, which could have been used for propaganda spiels, played pleasant medleys of international songs, the American representative being Sunny ("Thank you for that smile upon your face...
His name is Sonny Steele. He is played by Robert Redford. He is the ultimate Rhinestone Cowboy, a five-time world's champion rodeo rider now reduced morally, if not economically, by having to hustle Ranch Breakfast, a conglomerate's cereal. He is frequently obliged to ride out...