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May 13, 1979
Yesterday
Booktalk
Footloose
Kentucky Derby
Spectacular Bid and his 19-year-old jockey, Ronnie Franklin, confounded the critics with a come-from-behind win in the Kentucky Derby, triggering talk of yet another Triple Crown
With his team hurting because bullpen ace Rich Gossage is injured, the game's best starter offered to relieve—and promptly won
N.Y. Vs. N.Y.
The balance in the battle for New York hockey supremacy tipped toward the upstart Rangers as they all but shut out the Islanders' Big Four while taking a three-games-to-two lead in their Stanley Cup semifinal showdown
No Cigar
Alberto Juantorena and his band of fellow Cubans came out smoking in the UCLA meet, but Americans beat them to the tape every time
Movies
Baseball
Roy Smalley, the American League's best, has brains—and now some brawn
Soccer
The swift, aggressive French national team came to the Meadowlands and gave the U.S. national team a lesson in world-class soccer—by socking it to them
Pro Basketball
All eight teams in the women's league lost a bundle, but not their optimism
Larry Kenon and fellow Spur egos have enfevered a win-starved populace
Squash
And in today's bustling game that is a worthy achievement. But a contender Stu Goldstein may remain indefinitely unless he develops a champion's killer instinct
Tennis
Playing superbly, John McEnroe took on the world's best players, Bjorn Borg and Jimmy Connors, back to back and overwhelmed them to win the WCT championship
Ironman
To earn that title, Tom Warren victoriously swam 2.4 miles through rough seas, bicycled 112 miles and all ran a marathon, all in a single day of agony
As I See It
For The Record
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
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