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What is surprising is that McEnroe has come so far so fast matched against such opposition. He has beaten the likes of Roscoe Tanner, Adriano Panatta, Eddie Dibbs and Corrado Barazzutti and on one glorious occasion even managed to knock off Borg, 6-3, 6-4, in Stockholm, of all places. Still, quite understandably, McEnroe has a long way to go before he can be ranked with Borg. Or Connors, whom he has never beaten and who destroyed him in the semifinals of last September's U.S. Open. McEnroe likes to have some fun paraphrasing what Connors used to intone...
...starters back, including Jim Hofher and Mike Tanner, who have shored quarterbacking duties the past two seasons. But linebacking supreme Terry Lee is gone, along with lacrosse star Craig Jaeger, last season's two best all-around players...
...unlikely painter in question was George Stubbs. The son of a Liverpool tanner, Stubbs began drawing human bones when he was only eight years old. Later in life he sequestered himself on a Lincolnshire farm with his "niece," lugged the carcasses of horses into his studio, then flayed and dissected them so he could study their anatomy. Local folk complained that Stubbs made the country round smell like a battlefield. But in 1766, when Stubbs finally published his scrupulous horse drawings, they were recognized as masterly. His paintings, however, were admired mainly by horse lovers, many of them titled. Only...
...presented to the English the night after the match. Tanner and Oxford graduate captain Reddy Watt took a simultaneous gulp of champagne from the cup. As promised, the intensity of the afternoon was already forgotten...
...night that the cup was presented, Tanner was asked why Harvard gave Oxford the cup when the match was a tie. Bobo answered with a smile, "Because we want to be invited over there next year." Bodgin's philosophy seems to have penetrated after a mere week...