1989 Miami-Florida State: Seminoles Win A Battle; Canes Win A War
Read about the 1989 Miami-Florida State game, where the Seminoles continued their red-hot play and temporarily derailed the Hurricanes run to a national title.
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The Catholics Vs. Convicts Sequel Highlights 1989 College Football
The Notre Dame-Miami game that ultimately decided college football’s 1989 national championship game wasn’t the epic battle it had been the prior year. It wasn’t as clear-cut that these were the best two teams. The sequel to Catholics vs. Convicts was much like Godfather II—it was pretty good, but it could never measure against the standard set by the original.
1989 Sports: Michigan's Miracle, A Series Earthquake & Gretzky Changes Sides
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of sports history articles aimed at preserving the best moments of the modern sports era, from 1976 to the present. The focus is team sports—college & pro basketball and football, major league baseball and hockey.
This article offers a snapshot of 1989 sports, a year that saw an amazing sequence of events unfold for Michigan basketball, the World Series marred by an earthquake and Wayne Gretzky changing sides