SCOREBOARD IS JUST ONE OF THE MISSING ELEMENTS IN SOVIET-STYLE `BEIZBOL' By GLENN NELSON July 15, 1990 Publication: THE SEATTLE TIMES Page: C1 Word Count: 2397 KIEV - All the Soviet Sports Ministry official in Moscow knows is that the national baseball tournament is being held in the capital city of the country's second-largest republic. …
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Michael J: The Next Dr. J
ERVING PASSES TORCH TO JORDAN, NBA'S NEW KING By GLENN NELSON February 5, 1987 Publication: THE SEATTLE TIMES Page: C3 Word Count: 1379 CHICAGO, Jan. 17 _ Early in Michael Jordan's first career backcourt matchup with Philadelphia's Julius Erving, Chicago's John Paxson is motoring downcourt on a fast breakaway. The standing-room-only Chicago Stadium crowd of …
Bernie’s Odessey
SOME BAD BOUNCES HAVEN'T DAUNTED SONICS COACH BERNIE BICKERSTAFF By GLENN NELSON April 24, 1988 Publication: PACIFIC MAGAZINE, THE SEATTLE TIMES Page: 16 Word Count: 4287 Benham, Ky., is a company town fast losing its company. An economically battered and slowly vanishing coal-mining community nestled in the Appalachians, it offers few inducements to visitors. The …
IT’S ALMOST `GRIFFEY TIME’
By GLENN NELSON June 12, 1988 Publication: THE SEATTLE TIMES Page: C1 Word Count: 2252 SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - It is the bottom of the first in Spirit Land, a.k.a. Fiscalini Field, home of the Class A San Bernardino Spirit. Outfielder Jose Tartabull, younger brother of former Seattle Mariner Danny, is dancing off first base …