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The world series that precedes the World Series is golf's, in which two dozen pros—including Jack Nicklaus, who almost scratched to attend a high school football game—compete at Firestone in Akron for $300,000. Dan Jenkins reveals all.

Arms and the man we sing as Terry Todd reports on the sport of arm wrestling and on 50-year-old, bespectacled lumber yard worker Al Turner, who, having won the national, Canadian and world pro championships, is indisputably The Man.