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. This article is part of our overview look at […]
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. This article is part of our complete look at the 1989 NFL season, covering every division race and each postseason game. Marty […]
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 […]
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. This […]
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 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. This article is part of […]
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 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 […]
The University of Oklahoma has been much more renowned for its football program than what they do on the basketball court and that was certainly true in the 1980s when Barry Switzer had OU football rolling and won a national championship. But the 1988 Oklahoma Sooners basketball team were awfully good themselves and nearly gave […]
The basketball program at Kansas State has had a long and steady history of producing winning teams. What the school hasn’t done, at least in modern times, is make it all the way to the Final Four. Not since 1964 have the Wildcats danced on college basketball’s biggest stage. The 1988 Kansas State basketball team […]
The 1987 Miami Hurricanes were in need of some redemption. Each of the last two years they’d gone into the major bowls in position for a national title. Each time they lost as a favorite. This article is part of our overview look at the 1987 college football season. The first one came to Tennessee in […]
I suspect I’m not the only baseball fan feeling a little bleary-eyed today, in the aftermath of the Chicago Cubs’ 8-7 win over the Cleveland Indians last night in an amazing Game 7 of the World Series. And I suspect I’m not the only one wondering if I just the witnessed the greatest baseball game […]
