In the years following Bob Knight’s third national title with the 1987 Indiana basketball team, the Hoosiers had yet to make another serious assault on the summit of college basketball. They went out in a shocking first-round loss in the 1988 NCAA Tournament. A first-round loss in 1990 as an 8-seed was less surprising. There […]
The NFL playoffs were on an ugly trajectory coming into last Sunday. That’s a polite of saying that, prior to the Green Bay-Dallas epic and the taut Pittsburgh-Kansas City battle, the postseason had positively stunk. The first weekend in particular was bad enough, that it’s worth asking if this was the worst round of wild-card […]
The debate has begun over whether Clemson-Alabama was the greatest game in college football history, or at least the greatest title game. There are a number of candidates, ranging from Ohio State-Miami in 2002 to the epic Miami-Nebraska Orange Bowl of 1983. Most of the discussion though, compares Clemson-Alabama to the USC-Texas classic of eleven […]
The 1980s Cleveland Browns were the high point in the modern era of a franchise that hasn’t enjoyed much success since winning three championships in the first half of the 1950s and again in 1964. When the Super Bowl era arrived in the NFL, the Browns disappeared from its biggest games. But in the 1980s, […]
The 1989 Calgary Flames entered the season looking like they would be the forgotten team of the 1980s in the NHL. They had sprung an upset on Wayne Gretzky’s Edmonton Oilers in 1986 and reached the Finals, but Montreal won the Stanley Cup. The Flames consistently contended, but this was a decade that otherwise belonged […]
This page consists of blog compilations that tells the story of past college football seasons through the eyes of its best teams. The packages from 1981-85 are compilations of published articles that focus on the ten teams that reached the major bowl games, looking at their key players and season-defining moments on the way to […]
This page contains links to blog compilations that tell the story of past baseball seasons from the eyes of their best teams. Each seasonal package contains the regular season story of all postseason qualifiers, along with other relevant teams. Then it goes into a game-by-game narrative of the League Championship Series and Division Series. The […]
This article offers a snapshot of 1977 sports, a year that saw marquee teams in the Dallas Cowboys, New York Yankees and Notre Dame football win titles. We go through the seasons in order–college basketball, to the NBA & NHL, to major league baseball, to college football and concluding with the NFL.
The 1977 MLB season was the beginning of a pattern—for two straight years, the same four teams would win division titles, the same two teams would win pennants and the same team would win the World Series. Given that this script involved the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers meeting in the Fall Classic, I can’t imagine anyone at ABC or NBC, the networks that then carried postseason baseball, were complaining.
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.
… 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 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.
