Running Commentary
August, 1985
It hasn't made much difference--the streets are still swarming with joggers, as far as I can determine--but August fifth marks the one-year anniversary of my favorite incident in all of sports: that moment when Gabriela Andersen-Scheiss, the lady marathoner, stumbled into the Los Angeles Coliseum at the Olympics and did her imitation of every dopehead I ever knew in Austin, Texas, when Austin made Berkeley look like Swan Lake.I'll always be grateful to television for letting me watch her take th...
