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...trotted the final 200 yds. along an elevated bridge to Canton's ultramodern White Swan Hotel, the slight, blond runner was greeted by Guangdong province sports officials and svelte Chinese maidens in green cheongsams. But for Georgia's Stan Cottrell, 41, the greatest reward last week was simply finishing the 2,125-mile Great Friendship Run he had begun 53 days earlier from the Great Wall of China, northwest of Peking. "I call this a miracle run," said Cottrell, who held U.S. and Chinese flags as he was presented with a brown cloisonne trophy...
Still, some four seasons and 11,000 yds. ago, he was willing to find out. Initially refused a scholarship at Boston College, then tendered the last one available after a coaching change, Flutie arrived from nearby Natick High as a fourth-stringer. By the final quarter of his fourth idle Saturday, glumly watching B.C. in its usual throes-this time trailing Penn State 31-0-he had about resolved to ask Jack Bicknell for a trial at wide receiver, when the coach turned and scanned the bench. In the best tradition of the worst movies, Flutie went in and passed...
While Penn State won that game, the Nittany Lions make a good touchstone for the spectacular Flutie years. He threw on them for 520 yds. the next season, 380 the year after that and 447 a few weeks ago, getting on to a mile against one team alone. He has passed for 10,303 yds. in all and has run that up to 11,054, both major-college records. But the cold figures are not what has warmed New Englanders, who as a rule show no more passion than penchant for this primal sport of Texas and Ohio. Boston College...
...this second year with five touchdown passes against the Redskins, and after ten successes in ten games, the rest of the season may amount to Marino against the league. In a 31-17 victory over the New York Jets this week, he appeared fallible and yet passed for 422 yds. Such is the extent of expectations now. His 3,094 yds. passing have already outdone Griese's best year, while 29 touchdown passes imperil the 21-year-old N.F.L. record of Y.A. Tittle and the 23-year-old A.F.L. mark of Blanda, 36 apiece...
Before they plunged into the calm waters of Pigeon Point, just north of Santa Cruz, Calif., Chris Rehm, 33, and Omar Conger, 28, joked about sharks. The two men were experienced divers, and they had swum in that part of the Pacific before. Paddling out about 150 yds., they began diving for abalone, which they gathered in large bobbing buckets...