1977 College Football Season: The Road To The Major Bowls
The 1977 college football season defined by a dramatic January 2, when the four major bowl games were played. Two big blowouts created chaos and a controversial national champion.
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1977 Dallas Cowboys: Tom Landry Gets Another Ring
… it was the defense that owned every key moment of the Dallas season. They were anchored up front by end Harvey Martin, who would win Defensive Player of the Year. Other All-Pros included tackle Randy White and safeties Charley Waters and Cliff Harris
The Road To The 1977 Final Four
The 1977 Final Four was the year Al McGuire rode into retirement in a blaze of glory with the Marquette Warriors. It was also a year when Jerry Tarkanian made his first appearance on college basketball’s big stage, when Cornbread Maxwell led upstart UNC-Charlotte and when Dean Smith’s North Carolina team might have won it all if not for an untimely injury. Here’s a look back on the road all four teams took to Atlanta.
The Cinderella Story Of The 1977 Portland Trailblazers
The 1977 Portland Trail Blazers spent the NBA regular season looking like a nice, solid, up-and-coming team, but one that still had work to do in order to get to the top. The spring of 1977 saw Portland perform what is a rare feat in the NBA and its pull consecutive upsets and win ahead of their time.
The Inspiring Season Of 1989 Colorado Football
The 1989 Colorado football team opened the season with the cloud of tragedy hanging over them off the field and an inferiority complex within their conference on it. They ended the season coming within one half of a national championship and providing inspiration to the country. GREAT 1980s SPORTS MOMENTSStart reading today. It had been 1976 […]
The Game-By-Game Narrative Of The 1989 Cleveland Browns
After four years of regular success and playoff disappointment, the 1989 Cleveland Browns opted for new leadership. In ways both good and bad, the season looked a lot like what had come before it. GREAT 1980s SPORTS MOMENTSStart reading today. Marty Schottenheimer coached Cleveland from 1985-88 and made the postseason all four times. Playoff heartbreak came […]
The Story Of The 1988 MLB Season
The 1988 baseball season is remembered for an incredible home run in the first game of the World Series, one that capped a season-long run that seemed straight off the Hollywood set. But there was a whole lot of context that set the stage for that October moment, including the following… *The Los Angeles Dodgers […]
1988 Houston Oilers: A Playoff Era Continues
Jerry Glanville & Warren Moon had returned playoff football to the city of Houston in 1987 after a six-year absence. Lest anyone think that was a fluke, a byproduct of the strike-torn year of 1987, the 1988 Houston Oilers validated the franchise’s rise to the status of a contender and returned to the postseason. GREAT […]
1988 Boston Red Sox: The Summer Of Morgan Magic
The pressure was on for the 1988 Boston Red Sox. After their pennant-winning campaign of 1986 ended with a crushing World Series collapse, the Red Sox kept the collapse going through a poor 1987 season. Manager John McNamara’s job was on the line and everyone in baseball knew it when the 1988 season began. The […]
The Game-By-Game Narrative Of The 1988 Minnesota Vikings
The 1988 Minnesota Vikings were coming off a year where a strong postseason run left them just one play short of the Super Bowl. A well-regarded team, they spent much of 1988 looking ready to take that next step before an inexplicable late-season loss set them up for playoff disappointment. GREAT 1980s SPORTS MOMENTSStart reading today. […]
1988 Cleveland Browns: Injuries Stop A Run At Redemption
The 1988 Cleveland Browns were hungry for a Super Bowl breakthrough. The first three years of Marty Schottenheimer’s tenure had ended in postseason heartbreak. The Browns lost a crusher to the Dolphins in 1985. They lost two of the most famous endings in AFC Championship Game history to the Broncos in both 1986 and 1987. […]
The Rose Bowl Run Of 1988 Michigan Football
The period from 1983-87 was, by the standards of Bo Schembecler’s Michigan program, a dry one. The Wolverines “only” made it to one Rose Bowl in that five-year stretch. In ‘87 they lost four games. Perhaps most galling was that in-state rival Michigan State had won the Big Ten in 1987. And at a time […]