llLLt OUTLOOK Saturday January I 19SH Sports Sports of 87 It was a year of turmoil and thrills By George Robinson NEW YORK It was a year of turmoil and thrills in sports From the contentiousness of the America Cup to the furor over ml nor lies in baseball and the disrup tions of the NFL strike 1987 left near everybody angry about something In the order of their impact in the world of sports here are the big stones of 1987 1 The NFL Player Slrlkt If any event of the year had a lasting 1m pact this was It It was argued that the strikers accomplished little if anything Others said the owners by replacements and refusing to allow strikers to return for the game following end of the walkout played contempt for their employees and the fans Moreover the of scab games in the NFL standings tainted the entire playoff process Including tin Super Bowl The America Cup It was re ported that as Stars and Stripes sailed for the finish line one last time In the US blitz in Australia Dennis Con cried If so the tears of joy were wellearned So was the skippers re demption as he reclaimed what had been lost three years before Whether Conner and the San Diego Yacht Club can keep the Cup may be up to the Leonard vi Hagler How many socalled live up to their billing The Sugar Ray Leonard Mar velous Marvin brawl did It was all action And for much of the fight the action was all Leonard When Hagler woke up the result was a classic round nine But lost his middleweight championship de spite Leonard long absence from the ring The Master No other golf tour is as steeped in mythology as the Masters The 19B7 edition In gusta Ga added another legend Hometown boy Larry Mize won his first major tournament on a foot chip shot beating Greg Norman and Seve in a threeway play off Golf Magazine called It the shot of the year Miw reaction his body lub is long a the shot The 100 yard dash record Ben Johnson has quietly turned into the best sprinter In the world The turn Canadian right by Carl Lews at the World Track and Field Championships in Rome Johnson set a new world record for the 100 yard dash seconds The Indianapolis Al I even have a ride for the Indy as practices rolled around His old pal Roger had dropped him In favor of younger drivers But when Danny smashed into a wall hired once more became the oldest winner in Indy his he was years and days old on race day It was his fourth Indy victory The NCAA men Against Syracuse Keith Smart sank a Jumper with only seconds left on the clock to give Indiana their fifth national title and third under fiery Bobby Knight It was sweet revenge for the controversy over the book about Knight A Season on the Brink World Series It t pret but the Twins finally won a title or the state of Minnesota was the first Series played partly In a domed stadium ana the first In which all en games were won by the home team The Twins were the worst team only regular season win the Series To do so had to past the victors in the two tough est divisions in baseball the East Detroit Tigers and the Last St Louis Cards 9 Wimbledon Will Ivan Lcndl win this title In It rial Pal Cash who beat him Cash was brilliant through the fortnight He lost only one set during the entire In the final he made a mere unforced errors while holding serve nine times Unlike Lend Cash is pulsive and emotional That produced the most moving moment of the tour when the victorious Cash climbed into the stands to embrace his father The Kentucky Derby The Derby had an enormous field and a chaotic start Chris and Alysheba were bumped repeatedly after the gate In the first turn several horses slammed Into one another nally in the most dramatic moment of the race with some 80 yards to go Bet Twice ridden by Craig Perret swerved in front of who stumbled McCarron practically willed the bay colt to stay on its feel It did and It passed Bet Twice to win the Derby by threequarters of a length Berrys World How would you and your learn like to go the Persian Gulf play Parents 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Vancouver Halifax and Calgary The fifth will take place at the Sheraton Hamilton on the night of next March Judges from Ontario include Pcrc Allen of in Hamilton Donald of The Spectator Hamilton Sokol columnist for The Toronto Star and Brian Williams of CBC TV Toronto Seagram makes a contribution of to each of the national sports governing bodies represented by the winners for a total of so in grants each year With awards for 1987 the total donated will reach For 1963 the inaugural year win were swimmer Alex Bourn a Alpine skier Todd boner Willie Wit the notional women field hockey team and the national men basketball team Winners In were again diver Sylvie skater Gaetan Boucher the Olympic heavyweight eights rowing crew and the entire Cnnn team that competed at the bum Olympic Games In the were Alpine skier Laurie Graham Ben Johnson swimmer Waldo the curl rink and the national soccer A number of those honored to dale have been Ontario athletes in eluding Sudbury Graham Johnson I 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