MOST SADDENING Two days after being drafted No. 1 by the Celtics -- his "dream within a dream" -- Maryland Basketball Star Len Bias died in a rush of cocaine. Academic deficiencies came out then, and Coach Lefty Driesell resigned.
MOST STIRRING The master Jack Nicklaus and the thoroughbred Bill Shoemaker triumphed at 46 at Augusta and at 54 at Churchill Downs. Both wept, neither alone.
MOST ENDURING An American who dreams like a Frenchman, Greg LeMond, became the first non-European ever to win the 23-day Tour de France.
MOST DASHING Diego Armando Maradona, Argentina's "Little Onion," made the World Cup...
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