1987 World Series: Minnesota Wins With Dome-Field Advantage
The 1987 World Series brought together two teams from the Midwest, and for the third straight year, the Fall Classic went seven games…
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A Dramatic AL East Race Highlights The 1987 Baseball Season
The AL East didn’t produce a World Series winner in the 1987 baseball season, but the division produced one of the best playoff races of the decade, as the Detroit Tigers went toe-to-toe with the Toronto Blue Jays and the Milwaukee Brewers played a key complementary role as the third team.
The Edmonton Oilers Dynasty Flames Out In The 1986 NHL Playoffs
By the time the 1986 NHL playoffs rolled around, hockey fans were used to watching dynasties. The Montreal Canadiens won four straight from 1976-79. The New York Islanders did the same from 1980-83. So when the Edmonton Oilers broke through in 1984 and followed it up with a repeat Stanley Cup in 1985, one could be forgiven for the assumption that the Oilers would be next in line to win up to four in a row. Only it didn’t work out that wa
The 1986 NFL Playoffs: AFC Drama Capped Off By The Drive
The 1986 NFL playoffs were ultimately marked by the dominance of the New York Giants, but the greatest drama took place on the AFC side of the bracket. The divisional round provided excitement and an improbable comeback and the AFC Championship Game would see one of the great postseason drives of all time.
1992 Notre Dame Football: Bettis & Brooks Blast Their Way To The Top 5
Notre Dame has produced some great running backs in its heralded football history over the years, going all the way back to the days of George Gipp and before him The Four Horsemen. The modern history isn’t quite that dramatic, but what the 1992 Notre Dame football team put out in the backfield was awfully good. The tandem of Reggie Brooks and Jerome Bettis led the way on a season that came out of a midseason valley and finished strong.
The 1984 NBA Finals: The First Bird-Magic Battle In The Pros
It had been five years since Larry Bird and Magic Johnson changed the landscape of college basketball with their battle at the 1979 NCAA championship game. Even though both stars had immediately made their mark on the NBA in the ensuing four years—two titles and two Finals MVP for Magic, and one crown for Bird—they had yet to meet again for a championship. The 1984 NBA Finals changed all that.
The 1984 Baseball Season: The Playoff Teams & October Battles
The Detroit Tigers made mincemeat of the league in the 1984 baseball season. The Tigers had a young middle infield of Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammel, a rising star in right with Kirk Gibson, a 19-game winner atop the rotation in Jack Morris and a great year by closer Willie Hernandez, who won both the Cy Young and MVP.
The 1984 Edmonton Oilers: Wayne Gretzky Hoists His First Stanley Cup
The 1984 Edmonton Oilers had the best player in the NHL—Wayne Gretzky might have been only 23 years old, but he won his fifth MVP award in as many seasons in the league. The one thing the Oilers didn’t have coming in was a Stanley Cup. After four years of gradual buildup, Gretzky and the Oilers hoisted the Cup for the first time in 1984.
1984 NFL Season: The Playoff Teams
The 1984 NFL season marked the second straight year, the league had a clear favorite in both the AFC and NFC roll through the regular season and playoffs and into a much-anticipated Super Bowl, only to see the game itself go up in flames. This time it was quarterbacks Joe Montana and Dan Marino, and their San Francisco 49ers and Miami Dolphins, who were the players.
1983 N.C. State Basketball Brings March Madness To A New Era
The development of the NCAA Tournament as a time of Madness had taken place in phases since 1975, a year that marked both the end of the UCLA dynasty and the inclusion of multiple teams from each conference in the event. The 1983 N.C. State basketball team represented the culmination of that development
The Redskins-Raiders Super Bowl A Big Letdown To 1983 NFL Season
…by rights, the Redskins-Raiders Super Bowl, should have been a battle royal. Only, like most Super Bowls through the 1980s, especially the Dark Ages of 1983-87, it didn’t work out that way.
The 1983 Seattle Seahawks: Beating Back Elway & Marino In The Playoffs
…it was a satisfying run in the Pacific Northwest, one that saw the Seahawks tell two future Hall of Famer quarterbacks to wait their turn.