1987 Southern 500, Race report
Alan Kulwicki had engine problems on lap 77; picking up his only last place-finish. Harry Gant could handle his vehicle's clutch and had to exit the race on lap 95. Greg Sacks' engine gave out on lap 96 while Johnathan Lee Edwards had the same problem on lap 122. Trevor Boys inflicted terminal vehicle damage on lap 126 while fatigue ended H.B. Bailey's race on lap 133. Connie Saylor would pass out due to exhaustion on lap 140. Bobby Allison blew his vehicle's engine on lap 185 while a troublesome distributor ended Buddy Baker's race on lap 199.


1987 Southern 500, Race report
The battle for the win turned into a showdown between Earnhardt and Richard Petty; Petty gunned past Earnhardt on a Lap 188 restart but Earnhardt retook the lead on lap 191 just before rain brought out what would be the race-ending yellow at Lap 198. This was the first Darlington race with more than 10 cars on the lead lap despite rain ending it early. Rookie sensation Davey Allison won the pole and led 86 laps but crashed in the fourth turn at Lap 164; the crash swept up Lake Speed while Mike Potter spun behind them and was drilled by Benny Parsons.


1987 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament
The 1987 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament was held in Asheville, North Carolina from April 27 through April 29. The South Division's top seed Western Carolina won their third consecutive tournament and earned the Southern Conference's automatic bid to the 1987 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


1987 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding
The top two teams from each division based on regular season conference winning percentage participated in the tournament. The top seed from the North Division played the second seed from the South in the first round, and vice versa. The winners of the first round then played, while the losers played an elimination game. There were no ties in the standings, so no tiebreakers were necessary.


1987 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1987 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from February 27–March 1, 1987, at the Asheville Civic Center in Asheville, North Carolina. The Marshall Thundering Herd, led by head coach Rick Huckabay, won their third Southern Conference title and received the automatic berth to the 1987 NCAA Tournament.


1987 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
The top eight finishers of the conference's nine members were eligible for the tournament. Teams were seeded based on conference winning percentage. The tournament used a preset bracket consisting of three rounds.


1987 Southern Illinois Salukis football team
The 1987 Southern Illinois Salukis football team was an American football team that represented Southern Illinois University (now known as Southern Illinois University Carbondale) in the Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference (GCAC) during the 1987 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Under third-year head coach Ray Dorr, the team compiled a 3–8 record (2–4 against conference opponents) and tied for fifth place in the conference. The team played its home games at McAndrew Stadium in Carbondale, Illinois.


1987 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team
The 1987 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southern Mississippi as an independent during the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their sixth year under head coach Jim Carmody, the team compiled a 6–5 record.


1987 Southport state by-election
A by-election was held in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland seat of Southport on 20 June 1987. It was triggered by the death of sitting National Party member Doug Jennings on 9 April 1987, which remains the most recent time a sitting Queensland MP has died. The seat was formerly a Liberal seat until 1980, and the by-election took place in the midst of the Joh for Canberra push. However, the campaign dwelled almost entirely on local matters.


1987 Southport state by-election, Candidates
The Nationals selected Mick Veivers, a rugby league identity and acknowledged Sir Joh supporter, while the Liberals selected Keith Thompson, a City of Gold Coast alderman. Perennial independent candidate William Aabraham-Steer, who had contested McPherson and Moncrieff at various federal elections, also contested.


1987 Southport state by-election, Results
The seat was retained by the National Party with the election of candidate and Australian former rugby league international Mick Veivers.


1987 Southwest Conference Baseball Tournament
The 1987 Southwest Conference Baseball Tournament was the league's annual postseason tournament used to determine the Southwest Conference's (SWC) automatic bid to the 1987 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. The tournament was held from May 15 through May 18 at Disch–Falk Field on the campus of The University of Texas in Austin, TX.


1987 Southwest Conference Baseball Tournament
The number 1 seed Texas Longhorns went 3-0 to win the team's 7th SWC Tournament under head coach Cliff Gustafson.


1987 Southwest Conference Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding
The tournament featured the top four finishers of the SWC's 8 teams in a double-elimination tournament.


1987 Southwest Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1987 Southwest Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 7-0, 1987 at Reunion Arena in Dallas, TX.


1987 Southwest Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Number 8 seed Texas A&M defeated 2 seed Baylor 71-46 to win their 2nd championship and receive the conference's automatic bid to the 1987 NCAA Tournament.


1987 Southwest Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format and Seeding
The tournament consisted of the top 8 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament.


1987 Southwest Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
The 1987 Southwest Conference Women's Basketball Tournament was held March 4-7, 1987 at Moody Coliseum in Dallas, TX.


1987 Southwest Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
Number 1 seed Texas defeated 2 seed Arkansas 72-70 to win their 5th championship and receive the conference's automatic bid to the 1987 NCAA Tournament.


1987 Southwest Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Format and Seeding
The tournament consisted of a 6 team single-elimination tournament. The top two seeds had a bye to the Semifinals.


1987 Southwestern Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team
The 1987 Southwestern Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) as an independent during the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their second year under head coach Nelson Stokley, the team compiled a 6–5 record.


1987 Soviet Cup Final
The 1987 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on June 14, 1987. The match was the 46th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Dynamo Kyiv and FC Dinamo Minsk. The Soviet Cup winner Dynamo won the cup for the eighth time. The last year defending holders Torpedo Moscow were eliminated in the quarterfinals of the competition by FC Dinamo Minsk 3:2.


1987 Soviet Cup Final, Road to Moscow
All sixteen Soviet Top League clubs did not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so Dynamo Kyiv and Dinamo Minsk both qualified for the competition automatically.


1987 Soviet Second League
1988 Soviet Second League was a Soviet competition in the Soviet Second League.


1987 Soviet Second League, Zonal tournament, Zone VI (Ukraine)
1987 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was the 57th season of association football competition of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the Soviet Second League.


1987 Soviet Second League, Zonal tournament, Zone VI (Ukraine)
The 1987 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was won for the second time by SC Tavriya Simferopol. Qualified for the interzonal playoffs, the team from Crimean Oblast managed to gain promotion by winning its group.


1987 Soviet Second League, Zone 6
1987 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was the 57th season of association football competition of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the Soviet Second League.


1987 Soviet Second League, Zone 6
The 1987 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was won for the second time by SC Tavriya Simferopol. Qualified for the interzonal playoffs, the team from Crimean Oblast managed to gain promotion by winning its group.


1987 Soviet Top League
In the 1987 season, the Soviet Top League – the top tier of football in the Soviet Union –  was won by Spartak Moscow.


1987 Soviet Top League, Medal squads
Goalkeepers: Rinat Dasayev (29), Stanislav Cherchesov (2). Defenders: Vagiz Khidiyatullin (29 / 3), Aleksandr Bubnov (28 / 1), Yuri Susloparov (23), Boris Kuznetsov (19), Almir Kayumov (18), Aleksandr Bokiy (15), Yuri Surov (8). Midfielders: Fyodor Cherenkov (27 / 12), Viktor Pasulko (26 / 7), Aleksandr Mostovoi (18 / 6), Yevgeni Kuznetsov (17), Aleksei Yeryomenko (11 / 1), Sergei Novikov (9), Babken Melikian (8 / 1), Andrei Mitin (8), Vladimir Kapustin (3). Forwards: Sergey Rodionov (26 / 12), Valeri Shmarov (26 / 5), Mikheil Meskhi (16 / 1), Oleg Kuzhlev (3), Andrei Rudakov (2), Mikhail Rusyayev (2), Viktor Kolyadko (1).


1987 Soviet Top League, Medal squads
Transferred out during the season: Aleksei Yeryomenko (to FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don), Babken Melikian (to FC Kotayk Abovian), Andrei Rudakov (to FC Torpedo Moscow), Mikhail Rusyayev (to FC Lokomotiv Moscow), Viktor Kolyadko (to FC Terek Grozny).


1987 Soviet Top League, Medal squads
Goalkeepers: Valeriy Horodov (28), Serhiy Krakovskyi (2). Defenders: Sergei Bashkirov (30), Ivan Vyshnevskyi (29 / 1), Oleksiy Cherednyk (29), Serhiy Puchkov (20), Oleksandr Sorokalet (17), Volodymyr Gerashchenko (2), Oleksandr Lysenko (2), Oleh Fediukov (1). Midfielders: Hennadiy Lytovchenko (28 / 6), Vadym Tyshchenko (26 / 3), Anton Shokh (25 / 3), Mykola Kudrytsky (15), Volodymyr Bahmut (10). Forwards: Oleh Protasov (30 / 18), Oleh Taran (29 / 6), Yevhen Shakhov (28 / 3), Volodymyr Lyutyi (27 / 1), Vasyl Storchak (9 / 1).


1987 Soviet Top League, Medal squads
Goalkeepers: Vaclovas Jurkus (18), Almantas Kalinauskas (13). Defenders: Vyacheslav Sukristov (29 / 6), Sigitas Jakubauskas (29 / 2), Romas Mažeikis (29), Arvydas Janonis (29), Igoris Pankratjevas (27 / 3), Vladimiras Buzmakovas (23), Robertas Tautkus (9), Arūnas Žėkas (2). Midfielders: Vidmantas Rasiukas (30 / 1), Valdas Ivanauskas (25 / 7), Algimantas Mackevičius (20 / 2), Virginijus Baltušnikas (4), Viktoras Bridaitis (4), Stasys Tamulevičius (2). Forwards: Arminas Narbekovas (30 / 16), Stasys Baranauskas (28 / 5), Kęstutis Ruzgys (23 / 1), Gintaras Kviliūnas (5), Gediminas Sugzda (2), Robertas Fridrikas (1).


1987 Soviet nuclear tests
The Soviet Union's 1987 nuclear test series was a group of 24 nuclear tests conducted in 1987. These tests  followed the 1985 Soviet nuclear tests series and preceded the 1988 Soviet nuclear tests series.


1987 Sovran Bank D.C. National Tennis Classic
The 1987 Sovran Bank D.C. National Tennis Classic was a men's tennis tournament and was played on outdoor hard courts. The surface was changed from clay to hard court in an attempt to attract more top players in preparation for the US Open. It was the 19th edition of the tournament, which was part of the 1987 Grand Prix circuit, and was held at the Rock Creek Stadium in Washington, D.C. from July 27 through August 2, 1987. First-seeded Ivan Lendl won the singles title and earned $39,440 first-prize money.


1987 Sovran Bank D.C. National Tennis Classic, Finals, Doubles
Gary Donnelly /  Peter Fleming defeated  Laurie Warder /  Blaine Willenborg 6–2, 7–6


1987 Spa 24 Hour
The 1987 Spa 24 Hour was the fifth round of the inaugural World Touring Car Championship. The race was held for cars eligible for Group A touring car regulations. It was held from August 1–2, 1987 at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, in Spa, Belgium.


1987 Spa 24 Hour
The race was won by Eric van de Poele, Jean-Michel Martin and Didier Theys, driving a BMW M3. The leading car eligible for championship points was another M3, driven by Luis Pérez-Sala, Olivier Grouillard and Winfried Vogt, who finished in second place.


1987 Spa 24 Hour, Class structure
Cars were divided into three classes based on engine capacity:


1987 Spa 24 Hour, Official results
Results were as follows:| Entered: 61| Started: 61| Finished: 28


1987 Spanish Grand Prix
The 1987 Spanish Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Jerez on 27 September 1987. It was the thirteenth round of the 1987 Formula One season. It was the 29th Spanish Grand Prix and the second to be held at Jerez. The race was held over 72 laps of the 4.22-kilometre (2.62 mi) circuit for a race distance of 304 kilometres (189 mi).


1987 Spanish Grand Prix
The race was won by British driver Nigel Mansell, driving a Williams-Honda. It was Mansell's fifth victory of 1987 and the eighth for the Williams team, securing them their second consecutive Constructors' Championship and fourth in all. Frenchman Alain Prost finished second in a McLaren-TAG, some 22 seconds behind Mansell, with Swedish teammate Stefan Johansson third. Mansell's teammate and Drivers' Championship rival, Nelson Piquet, finished fourth. Prost broke Niki Lauda's record with his 55th podium at this race.


1987 Spanish Grand Prix
The win moved Mansell ahead of Ayrton Senna, who finished fifth in his Lotus-Honda, into second place in the Drivers' Championship, albeit 18 points behind Piquet with three races remaining.


1987 Spanish Grand Prix
Martin Brundle, who finished 11th in his Zakspeed, described his drive as "the time I got out the car thinking no human could have done [any] better".


1987 Spanish Grand Prix, Summary
Nelson Piquet secured his 24th and final F1 pole position in his Williams-Honda with Nigel Mansell completing an all-Williams front row. The race was comfortably won by Mansell who passed Piquet at the end of the first lap and was never headed. The battle for third (then second) was led for much of the time by Ayrton Senna, who like the previous year tried to complete the race without changing tyres. Both Senna and Lotus were of the opinion that the 99T's computerised active suspension system would help preserve his tyres throughout the race.


1987 Spanish Grand Prix, Summary
Senna had a queue of both Ferraris, Prost's McLaren and Thierry Boutsen's Benetton behind him, which was joined by Piquet after a long pit-stop. For lap after lap, Senna held off all-comers, similar to Gilles Villeneuve's performance in his Ferrari at Jarama for the 1981 Spanish Grand Prix. The Lotus-Honda was very fast in a straight line with a low downforce setup, but was slow through Jerez's many twists and turns as a result. Senna's pursuers could not pass him on the long pit straight, and with Jerez generally having a lot of dust and sand off the racing line, they were not able pass him through the corners without losing grip.


1987 Spanish Grand Prix, Summary
However, Piquet's similarly powered Williams was able to get by (not before having a spin) followed eventually by Boutsen and Prost as the Brazilian's tyres finally went off. Senna faded to finish fifth, but the battle for second continued between Boutsen and Piquet - Boutsen went out avoiding Piquet who was rejoining the track after having gone off - and then between Piquet and Prost, with Prost getting the better of the Williams driver who also lost third place to McLaren's Stefan Johansson who put in another strong drive. Both Ferraris blew their engines.


1987 Spanish local elections
The 1987 Spanish local elections were held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect all 65,577 councillors in the 8,062 municipalities of Spain and all 1,028 seats in 38 provincial deputations. The elections were held simultaneously with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities, as well as local elections in the three foral deputations of the Basque Country, the ten island councils in the Balearic and Canary Islands and the 1987 European Parliament election.


1987 Spanish local elections, Electoral system
Municipalities in Spain were local corporations with independent legal personality. They had a governing body, the municipal council or corporation, composed of a mayor, deputy mayors and a plenary assembly of councillors. Voting for the local assemblies was on the basis of universal suffrage, with all nationals over eighteen, registered in the corresponding municipality and in full enjoyment of all political rights entitled to vote. The mayor was in turn elected by the plenary assembly, with a legal clause providing for the candidate of the most-voted party to be automatically elected to the post in the event no other candidate was to gather an absolute majority of votes.


1987 Spanish local elections, Electoral system
Local councillors were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each local council. Councillors were allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:


1987 Spanish local elections, Electoral system
Councillors of municipalities with populations between 100 and 250 inhabitants were elected under an open list partial block voting, with electors voting for individual candidates instead of parties and for up to four candidates. Additionally, municipalities below 100 inhabitants, as well as those whose geographical location or the best management of municipal interests or other circumstances made it advisable, were to be organized through the open council system (Spanish: régimen de concejo abierto), in which voters would directly elect the local major.


1987 Spanish local elections, Electoral system
The electoral law provided that parties, federations, coalitions and groupings of electors were allowed to present lists of candidates. However, groupings of electors were required to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in the municipality for which they sought election:


1987 Spanish local elections, Electoral system
Electors were barred from signing for more than one list of candidates. Concurrently, parties and federations intending to enter in coalition to take part jointly at an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election being called.


1987 Spanish local elections, Electoral system
Provincial deputations were the governing bodies of provinces in Spain, having an administration role of municipal activities and composed of a provincial president, an administrative body, and a plenary. Basque provinces had foral deputations instead—called Juntas Generales—, whereas deputations for single-province autonomous communities were abolished: their functions transferred to the corresponding regional parliaments. For insular provinces, such as the Balearic and Canary Islands, deputations were replaced by island councils in each of the islands or group of islands. For Majorca, Menorca and Ibiza–Formentera this figure was referred to in Spanish as consejo insular (Catalan: consell insular), whereas for Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Fuerteventura, La Gomera, El Hierro, Lanzarote and La Palma its name was cabildo insular.


1987 Spanish local elections, Electoral system
Most deputations were indirectly elected by local councillors from municipalities in each judicial district. Seats were allocated to provincial deputations based on the following scale:


1987 Spanish local elections, Electoral system
Island councils and foral deputations were elected directly by electors under their own, specific electoral regulations.


1987 Spanish local elections, Municipal elections, City control
The following table lists party control in provincial capitals, as well as in municipalities above or around 75,000. Gains for a party are highlighted in that party's colour.


1987 Spanish local elections, Provincial deputations, Deputation control
The following table lists party control in provincial deputations. Gains for a party are highlighted in that party's colour.


1987 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1987 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the second round of the 1987 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 23–26 April 1987 at the Circuito Permanente de Jerez.


1987 Spanish regional elections
The 1987 Spanish regional elections were held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the regional parliaments of thirteen of the seventeen autonomous communities—Aragon, Asturias, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castile and León, Castilla–La Mancha, Extremadura, La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia, Navarre and the Valencian Community—, not including Andalusia, the Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia, which had separate electoral cycles. 779 of 1,169 seats in the regional parliaments were up for election. The elections were held simultaneously with local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 1987 European Parliament election.


1987 Spanish regional elections
The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) remained the largest party overall, as well as in most regional parliaments. However, it suffered from a drop in popular support which saw it losing many of the absolute majorities it had obtained four years previously. As a result, several centre-right coalitions and alliances were able to oust the Socialists from government in four out of the twelve regional administrations it had held previous to the election.


1987 Spanish regional elections
The main national opposition party, the People's Alliance (AP), having suffered from an internal crisis and the breakup of the People's Coalition in 1986, also lost support compared to the previous election. Its former allies, the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the Liberal Party (PL), stood separately in the regional elections but remained unable to capitalize on AP's losses.


1987 Spanish regional elections
Benefitting from the two main parties's fall was former Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez's Democratic and Social Centre (CDS), which became decisive for government formation in many regional assemblies. United Left (IU), a coalition made up by the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) and other minor left-wing groups, remained stagnant at the PCE's 1983 results.


1987 Spanish regional elections, Election date
Determination of election day varied depending on the autonomous community, with each one having competency to establish its own regulations. Typically, thirteen out of the seventeen autonomous communities—all but Andalusia, the Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia—had their elections fixed to be held within sixty days from the day of expiry of the regional assemblies, together with nationwide local elections.


1987 Spanish regional elections, Regional governments
The following table lists party control in autonomous communities. Gains for a party are highlighted in that party's colour.


1987 Spanish regional elections, Opinion polls
Individual poll results are listed in the table below in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first, and using the date the survey's fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. If such date is unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. In the instance of a tie, the figures with the highest percentages are shaded. in the case of seat projections, they are displayed in bold and in a different font.


1987 Special Honours (New Zealand)
The 1987 Special Honours in New Zealand was a Special Honours Lists, dated 6 February 1987, making the five foundation appointments to the Order of New Zealand.


1987 Speedway Champions Cup
The Speedway Champions Cup was an annual motorcycle speedway competition that took place between 1986 and 1993, featuring the national champions of the sixteen participating nations. It was discontinued with the introduction of the Speedway Grand Prix in 1995.


1987 Speedway Champions Cup
The 1987 championship was held at Miskolc and the winner was Zoltán Adorján from Hungary.


1987 Speedway Champions Cup, Results
m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fell • ns - non-starter • nc - non-classify


1987 Speedway World Pairs Championship
The 1987 Speedway World Pairs Championship was the eighteenth FIM Speedway World Pairs Championship. The final took place in Pardubice, Czechoslovakia. The championship was won by host Denmark (52 points) who beat England (44 points) and United States (36 points).


1987 Speedway World Team Cup
The 1987 Speedway World Team Cup was the 28th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.


1987 Speedway World Team Cup
Denmark won two legs and therfore won their fifth consecutive title (and seventh in total) moving to just one title win if England's record 8. It was also Hans Nielsen's seventh gold medal having taken part in all of Denmark's title wins.


1987 Speedway World Team Cup, Group 1 (FINAL GROUP), Round 1
M - exclusion for exceeding two-minute time allowance • T - exclusion for touching the tapes • X - other exclusion • E - retired or mechanical failure • F - fell


1987 Speedway World Team Cup, Group 1 (FINAL GROUP), Round 2
M - exclusion for exceeding two-minute time allowance • T - exclusion for touching the tapes • X - other exclusion • E - retired or mechanical failure • F - fell


1987 Speedway World Team Cup, Group 1 (FINAL GROUP), Round 3
M - exclusion for exceeding two-minute time allowance • T - exclusion for touching the tapes • X - other exclusion • E - retired or mechanical failure • F - fell


1987 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season
The 1987 St. Louis Cardinals season was the franchise's 68th season in the National Football League and the 28th and final season in St. Louis as the team moved to Tempe, Arizona in March 1988. This move left St. Louis without an NFL franchise until the Los Angeles Rams moved there in 1995 to play, only to relocate back to Los Angeles in 2016, once again leaving St. Louis without an NFL team.


1987 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season, Personnel, NFL replacement players
After the league decided to use replacement players during the NFLPA strike, the following team was assembled:


1987 St. Louis Cardinals season
The 1987 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 106th season in St. Louis, Missouri and the 96th season in the National League. The Cardinals went 95-67 during the season and finished first in the National League East Division for the third and last time before moving to the NL Central in 1994. They went on to win the NLCS in seven games over the San Francisco Giants. In the World Series against the Minnesota Twins, after having fallen behind 2-0 at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, they won their next three games at home. However, back at the Metrodome, they lost the last two and fell one game short of a World Series title. It would be the Cardinals' last World Series appearance until 2004.


1987 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season
September highlights included a Terry Pendleton home run on a September 11 game against the contending Mets as well as a Tom Herr walk-off grand slam against the Mets on Seat Cushion Night. As St. Louis proceeded into the post-season, they found themselves without clean-up hitter Jack Clark, the team's number-one offensive threat. He damaged his ankle when he caught a cleat in the artificial turf at Montreal's Olympic Stadium. Nonetheless, the Redbirds won 95 games to capture the NL East title.


1987 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1987 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1987 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1987 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1987 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1987 St. Louis Cardinals season, Postseason, NLCS
Despite the Cardinals prevailing over the San Francisco Giants in 7 games, it was the Giants' Jeffrey Leonard who won the NLCS MVP award.


1987 St. Louis Cardinals season, Postseason, World Series
The Minnesota Twins defeated the Cardinals in seven games. This Series was the first in which the home team won each of the seven games. The Cardinals held their own at Busch Stadium, but the electronically enhanced crowd noise and the "Homer Hankys" in the Metrodome appeared to give the Twins an edge. The booming bats of the Twins were too much for the Cardinals' "inside baseball" style of offense in Games 1, 2, and 6. In Game 7 it was the Twins' pitching that shut down the Cardinals.


1987 St. Louis Cardinals season, Postseason, World Series
AL Minnesota Twins (4) vs. NL St. Louis Cardinals (3)


1987 Stanford Cardinal baseball team
The 1987 Stanford Cardinal baseball team represented Stanford University in the 1987 NCAA Division I baseball season. The team was coached by Mark Marquess in his 11th season at Stanford.


1987 Stanford Cardinal baseball team
The Cardinal won the College World Series, defeating the Oklahoma State Cowboys in the championship game.


1987 Stanford Cardinal baseball team, Cardinal in the 1987 MLB Draft
The following members of the Stanford Cardinal baseball program were drafted in the 1987 Major League Baseball draft.


1987 Stanford Cardinal football team
The 1987 Stanford Cardinal football team represented Stanford University in the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season.


1987 Stanley Cup Finals
The 1987 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1986–87 season, and the culmination of the 1987 Stanley Cup playoffs. It was contested between the Edmonton Oilers and the Philadelphia Flyers. The Oilers won the series 4–3, for their third Stanley Cup victory. This would be the fifth of eight consecutive Finals contested by a team from Alberta (the Oilers appeared in six, the Calgary Flames in two), and the fourth of five consecutive Finals to end with the Cup presentation on Alberta ice (the Oilers won four times, the Montreal Canadiens once).


1987 Stanley Cup Finals, Paths to the Finals
For the third straight year, the Edmonton Oilers and Philadelphia Flyers finished the regular season with the two best records in the NHL. (In 1984–85, the Flyers were first in NHL standings and the Oilers second; in both 1985–86 and 1986–87, the positions were reversed.) While the Oilers' success came from their vaunted offense, the Flyers relied on grit, defensive play, and solid goaltending from Vezina Trophy winner Ron Hextall.


1987 Stanley Cup Finals, Paths to the Finals
The Oilers cruised into the Finals with relative ease, losing only two games in the process. They beat the Los Angeles Kings in five games, swept the Winnipeg Jets, and then beat the Detroit Red Wings in five to win the Clarence S. Campbell Bowl for the fourth time in five years. The Flyers, meanwhile, had a much harder road. It took them six games to knock off the New York Rangers, went the full seven against the New York Islanders, and then beat Montreal, the reigning champion, in six to claim their second Prince of Wales Trophy in three years.


1987 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries
The Oilers and Flyers met in the Finals for the second time in three years. This time, Edmonton was the regular-season champion with 50 wins and 106 points, and Philadelphia was second with 46 wins and 100 points.


1987 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries
This was a rematch of the 1985 Stanley Cup Finals, where the Oilers beat the Flyers in five games. Unlike the 1985 Finals, this series went to seven games. Edmonton took the first two games at home, then split in Philadelphia. However, the Flyers won the next two games, one in Edmonton and one back in Philadelphia by one goal, to force a deciding seventh game. Edmonton won game seven to earn its third Stanley Cup in four seasons.


1987 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries
During the Stanley Cup presentation, Oilers captain Wayne Gretzky would give the Cup to Steve Smith, who one year earlier scored on his own net a goal that led to their downfall against the Calgary Flames, their in-province rivals, in the Smythe Division Final. Ron Hextall would receive the Conn Smythe Trophy for his efforts.


1987 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries
Many people consider this to be one of the greatest Stanley Cup Finals of all time.


1987 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game one
With the game tied at 1–1 after 40 minutes of play, the Oilers won thanks to third-period goals by Glenn Anderson, Paul Coffey, and Jari Kurri. Gretzky registered a goal and an assist in the onslaught as part of a 4–2 win. The Flyers outshot Edmonton 31–26.


1987 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game two
This time, the Flyers led 2–1 after two periods. Despite matching the Oilers line for line and speed for speed, Edmonton burned Philly with a third-period goal, then on the game-winner by Kurri, who took advantage of some disorganized defensive play by the Flyers in overtime to score the game-winning goal with a wide-open chance in a 3–2 overtime victory.


1987 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game three
Looking to take a commanding 3–0 series lead, Edmonton came out firing, taking a 2–0 lead after one period on goals by Mark Messier and Coffey, then stretching it to 3–0 on Anderson's fluke breakaway goal 1:49 into the second.


1987 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game three
With their backs against the wall, the Flyers began a comeback on second-period goals by Murray Craven and Peter Zezel. Early in the third, tallies 17 seconds apart by Scott Mellanby and Brad McCrimmon tied the game, then put the Flyers ahead 4–3. For the remainder of the period, the Flyers gamely kept the Oilers' potent offense at bay until Brian Propp's empty-net goal sealed a 5–3 win.


1987 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game three
Until this point, no team had ever rebounded from a 3–0 deficit to win a game in the Finals, and the Flyers won their first-ever playoff game after yielding a game's first three goals.


1987 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game four
The momentum from game three did not carry over for Philadelphia. Gretzky notched three assists as the Oilers won, 4–1, and took a three games to one series lead. In a relatively sedate affair, the most shocking event came when Flyers goaltender Ron Hextall viciously chopped his stick across the back of the legs of Edmonton's Kent Nilsson in the third period when trailing 4–1.


1987 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game four
Hextall was apparently incensed that Anderson and other Oilers had cruised through the goal crease untouched and unpenalized during the game, and took out his frustration on the last Oiler he happened to see skate by. Hextall's actions caused Nilsson no injury, but Hextall would be suspended for the first eight games of the 1987–88 season.


1987 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game five
Edmonton's newspapers had published plans for a future victory parade that day, and the Oilers tried to make those plans come to fruition when they beat Hextall for two quick first-period goals. Although the Flyers got one back and trailed 2–1 after one period, Hextall let Edmonton's third goal of the game, a tip-in by Marty McSorley with nearly two minutes gone in the second slip between his arm and body; time was growing short.


1987 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game five
Facing the end of their season, the Flyers clawed back and tied the game 3–3 on goals by Doug Crossman and Pelle Eklund. With almost six minutes played in the third, Propp fed Rick Tocchet in the slot for the go-ahead score. Hextall and the Flyers' defence clamped down on the Oilers the rest of the way and the series came back to Philadelphia.


1987 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game six
With a chance to close out the series without the pressure of home ice, Edmonton took a 2–0 lead against a hesitant Flyers club on a disputed goal by Kevin Lowe and a stuffer by checking winger Kevin McClelland. The Oilers took control of the game in all aspects, outshooting Philly 15–5 in the opening 20 minutes. The Flyers had little chance until Lindsay Carson managed to thread a puck through Grant Fuhr's pads a little more than seven minutes into the second period. The Oilers kept the pressure on, and carried play into the third period. However, Anderson's careless high-sticking penalty with eight minutes left in regulation led to Propp's electric game-tying goal, snapping a shot high into the left corner of the net.


1987 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game six
Eighty-four seconds later, little-used Flyer defenceman J. J. Daigneault stepped up to a dying puck inside the Oilers' blue line, and cranked the puck just inside the right post to give the Flyers a 3–2 advantage. Daigneault's goal stirred the Spectrum crowd to a frenzy providing what has been called the loudest moment in that arena's history, and the game is often nicknamed "The Night the Spectrum Shook".


1987 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game six
The only threat to that lead came with ten seconds left, when Mark Messier picked off Hextall's attempted clear, broke in, and took one shot into Hextall's pads and a second over the top of the net. Mark Howe knocked down a last-ditch Oiler effort at the buzzer, and the Finals headed to a seventh game for the first time since 1971.


1987 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game seven
Two unusual occurrences marked the opening of the game, which marked the first game 7 since 1971: the Flyers were awarded a two-man advantage one minute into the contest, and scored the first goal of the game for the first time in the Finals. Craven banked a shot off Fuhr's skate only 1:41 into the game for a 1–0 Philadelphia lead. The Flyers failed to score on the back half of the 5-on-3, and the Oilers came back six minutes later when Messier finished off a 3-on-1 with a backhander to tie the game.


1987 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game seven
Kurri delivered a huge blow to Flyers victory hopes when he beat Hextall with quick wrist shot off a Gretzky pass at 14:59 into the second period, giving the Oilers a one-goal cushion. Edmonton poured it on late, outshooting the Flyers 13–6 in the middle 20 minutes and 12–2 in the third, finally getting an insurance goal on Anderson's 30-footer up the middle with 2:24 to play.


1987 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game seven
Philadelphia's Hextall, who had 40 saves in game seven, was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoffs MVP despite Edmonton's victory. His feat was the fourth time a Conn Smythe winner came from a losing team. He was preceded by Roger Crozier, goaltender with the Detroit Red Wings in 1966, St. Louis Blues goalie Glenn Hall in 1968, and Flyers right wing Reggie Leach in 1976. Jean-Sebastien Giguere, also a goalie, would become the 2003 playoff MVP with the Finals-losing Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.


1987 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game seven
This is the most recent game seven in the Finals to have a lead change, or even a game-tying goal. All eight such games played since then (1994, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2011, and 2019) had neither. This was also the last time that the champs would skate off with the Cup after winning the trophy. When the Oilers repeated the next year, they started the tradition in which everyone gathered around with the Cup in a team photo.


1987 Stanley Cup Finals, Broadcasting
In the United States, the series aired nationally on ESPN. However, ESPN's national coverage was blacked out in the Philadelphia area due to the local rights to Flyers games in that TV market. WGBS aired four games at the Northlands Coliseum while PRISM televised three games at the Spectrum.


1987 Stanley Cup Finals, Broadcasting
In Canada, this was the first of two consecutive years that the English-language rights to the Cup Finals was split between the Global-Canwest consortium and the CBC. The CBC exclusively aired games one, two and six, while Global exclusively televised games three, four, and five. Game seven was then broadcast simultaneously by both networks, with each broadcaster using its own separate production facilities and on-air talent.


1987 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving
The 1987 Stanley Cup was presented to Oilers captain Wayne Gretzky by NHL President John Ziegler following the Oilers 3–1 win over the Flyers in game seven.


1987 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving
The following Oilers players and staff had their names engraved on the Stanley Cup


1987 Stanley Cup playoffs
The 1987 Stanley Cup playoffs, the playoff tournament of the National Hockey League (NHL) began on April 8, after the conclusion of the 1986–87 NHL season. It concluded on May 31, with the Edmonton Oilers defeating the Philadelphia Flyers to win the Stanley Cup. In an attempt to reduce the number of first round upsets, the NHL expanded the Division Semifinals series from a best-of-five series to a best-of-seven series.


1987 Stanley Cup playoffs
The 1987 playoffs marked the second consecutive year that all four former WHA teams made the playoffs in the same year. It would not happen again until 1999 by which time 3 of those teams had moved, the Quebec Nordiques to Denver, the Winnipeg Jets to Phoenix, and the Hartford Whalers to Raleigh. For the second time ever, the first time being 1978, all of the Original Six teams made the playoffs in the same season.


1987 Stanley Cup playoffs
At the time the Philadelphia Flyers set an NHL playoff record by playing in 26 games during the playoffs. This record was equaled by four other teams (2004 Calgary Flames, 2014 Los Angeles Kings, 2015 Tampa Bay Lightning, and 2019 St. Louis Blues) before the 2020 Dallas Stars broke the record during the expanded 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs.


1987 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, Prince of Wales Conference, (A1) Hartford Whalers vs. (A4) Quebec Nordiques
This was the second playoff series meeting between these two teams. Harford won the only previous meeting in a three-game sweep in the last year's Adams Division Semifinals.


1987 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, Prince of Wales Conference, (A1) Hartford Whalers vs. (A4) Quebec Nordiques
This was the last series that the Nordiques/Avalanche franchise won in Quebec City, the franchise did not win another playoff series until 1996 when they were the Colorado Avalanche.


1987 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, Prince of Wales Conference, (A2) Montreal Canadiens vs. (A3) Boston Bruins
This was the 22nd playoff series between these two teams. Montreal lead 19–2 in previous playoff series. This was the fourth straight year meeting in the Division Semifinals. Montreal won last year's Adams Division Semifinals in a three-game sweep.


1987 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, Prince of Wales Conference, (P1) Philadelphia Flyers vs. (P4) New York Rangers
This was the eighth playoff series meeting between these two teams. New York won four of the previous seven meetings, including last year's Patrick Division Semifinals in a 3–2 series upset.


1987 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, Prince of Wales Conference, (P2) Washington Capitals vs. (P3) New York Islanders
This was the fifth playoff series meeting between these two teams. New York won three of the previous four series all in the past four years. Washington won last year's Patrick Division Semifinals in a three-game sweep.


1987 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, Prince of Wales Conference, (P2) Washington Capitals vs. (P3) New York Islanders
Game seven of this series went four overtimes, and is known as the Easter Epic. It was the only one this year to go beyond one OT period.


1987 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, Clarence Campbell Conference, (N1) St. Louis Blues vs. (N4) Toronto Maple Leafs
This was the second playoff series meeting between these two teams. This was a rematch of last year's Norris Division Finals, in which St. Louis won in seven games.


1987 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, Clarence Campbell Conference, (N2) Detroit Red Wings vs. (N3) Chicago Blackhawks
This was the 11th playoff series between these two teams. Chicago lead 6–4 in previous playoff meetings. Chicago won the most recent meeting in a three-game sweep in the 1985 Norris Division Semifinals.


1987 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, Clarence Campbell Conference, (S1) Edmonton Oilers vs. (S4) Los Angeles Kings
This was the third playoff series meeting between these two teams. Both teams split their previous two meetings. Edmonton won in a three-game sweep in their most recent meeting in the 1985 Smythe Division Semifinals.


1987 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, Clarence Campbell Conference, (S2) Calgary Flames vs. (S3) Winnipeg Jets
This was the third playoff series meeting between these two teams. Both teams split their previous two meetings over the prior two years. Calgary won last year's Smythe Division Semifinals in a three-game sweep.


1987 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, Clarence Campbell Conference, (S2) Calgary Flames vs. (S3) Winnipeg Jets
This was the last series that the Jets/Coyotes franchise won in Winnipeg; the franchise did not win another playoff series until the 2012 Western Conference Quarterfinal while based in Arizona. This was also the last time a Winnipeg-based NHL team won a playoff series until 2018.


1987 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Finals, Prince of Wales Conference, (A2) Montreal Canadiens vs. (A4) Quebec Nordiques
This was the fourth playoff series meeting between these two teams. Quebec won two of the previous three meetings, including their most recent meeting in the 1985 Adams Division Finals in seven games.


1987 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Finals, Prince of Wales Conference, (P1) Philadelphia Flyers vs. (P3) New York Islanders
This was the fourth playoff series meeting between these two teams. Philadelphia won two of the previous three series, including their most recent in the 1985 Patrick Division Finals in five games.


1987 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Finals, Clarence Campbell Conference, (N2) Detroit Red Wings vs. (N4) Toronto Maple Leafs
This was the 21st playoff series between these two teams. Toronto lead 11–9 in previous playoff series. They last met in the 1964 Stanley Cup Finals, in which Toronto won in seven games.


1987 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Finals, Clarence Campbell Conference, (S1) Edmonton Oilers vs. (S3) Winnipeg Jets
This was the fourth playoff series meeting between these two teams. Edmonton won all three previous meetings, including their most recent in the 1985 Smythe Division Finals in a four-game sweep.


1987 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Finals, Prince of Wales Conference Final, (P1) Philadelphia Flyers vs. (A2) Montreal Canadiens
This was the third playoff series meeting between these two teams. Montreal won both previous meetings, including their last meeting in a four-game sweep in the 1976 Stanley Cup Finals.


1987 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Finals, Clarence Campbell Conference Final, (S1) Edmonton Oilers vs. (N2) Detroit Red Wings
This was the first playoff series meeting between these two teams.


1987 Stanley Cup playoffs, Stanley Cup Finals
This was the third playoff series between these two teams, and their second Finals meeting. Both teams split their previous two meetings. Edmonton won the 1985 Stanley Cup Finals in five games. This time, Edmonton was the regular season champion with 50 wins and 106 points, and Philadelphia was second with 46 wins and 100 points.


1987 Stanley Cup playoffs, Stanley Cup Finals
Unlike the 1985 final, this series would go the distance; and for the first time since 1971, the Stanley Cup Finals went the full seven games. Edmonton took the first two games at home, then split in Philadelphia. However, the Flyers won the next two games, one in Edmonton and one back in Philadelphia by one goal after overcoming two-goal deficits in both games facing elimination, to force a deciding seventh game. Edmonton won game seven to earn its third Stanley Cup in four seasons.


1987 Stanley Cup playoffs, Player statistics, Goaltenders
This is a combined table of the top five goaltenders based on goals against average and the top five goaltenders based on save percentage, with at least 420 minutes played. The table is sorted by GAA, and the criteria for inclusion are bolded.


1987 Star World Championships
The 1987 Star World Championships were held in Chicago, United States in 1987.


1987 Star World Championships, Results
Legend: DNF – Did not finish; DNS – Did not start; DSQ – Disqualified; WDR – Withdrew; YMP – Yacht materially prejudiced;


1987 State of Origin series
The 1987 State of Origin series saw the sixth time the annual three-match series between the New South Wales and Queensland representative rugby league football teams was contested entirely under 'State of Origin' selection rules. It saw the emergence of new faces who would go on to become Origin legends (Queensland's Allan Langer and New South Wales' Andrew Ettingshausen), record crowds for all three matches, and an additional exhibition game played in Long Beach, California (near Los Angeles).


1987 State of Origin series
The 1987 series was also the last in which players for Queensland were selected from teams of the Brisbane Rugby League premiership. With the introduction of the Brisbane and Gold Coast clubs to the New South Wales Rugby League premiership the following year, after this series all players in State of Origin would be sourced from NSWRL teams. The final five BRL players selected for Queensland were captain Wally Lewis, Gene Miles, Allan Langer, Colin Scott and Greg Conescu, all of whom joined the Brisbane Broncos in 1988.


1987 State of Origin series, Games, Game I
Mark Murray had missed just one Origin clash in the first five series but when he suffered a serious eye injury that forced his premature retirement in the off-season of 1986, it was widely expected that in-form Eastern Suburbs half-back Laurie Spina would be called into the side after good form for the Roosters and impressing in a Qld selection trial at Lang Park. Instead, and against the wishes of coach Wayne Bennett, the Maroons selectors opted for the jockey-sized Ipswich Jets half-back Allan Langer then just 68 kg and a month shy of his 21st birthday. Spina would never again get the chance to represent Queensland.


1987 State of Origin series, Games, Game I
In his first match at Origin level, Langer proved he was a worthy partner for Wally Lewis in the halves and silenced his doubters with a performance that went close to earning him the man-of-the-match award which was won by Blues' second rower Les Davidson.


1987 State of Origin series, Games, Game I
With only minutes left in the game the scores were locked at 16-all and heading for the first drawn result when referee Mick Stone made one of the best refereeing decisions in Origin history under immense pressure in front of a rabid Queensland crowd. New South Wales' half-back Peter Sterling missed with a field-goal attempt before launching a final backline raid down the right hand side of the field. Cronulla Sharks centre Andrew Ettingshausen, on debut and playing on the wing, sent his club team-mate Mark McGaw away on a long burst down the sideline.


1987 State of Origin series, Games, Game I
Cornered by the converging defence, McGaw threw an inside pass that was knocked down by Queensland but was kicked ahead into the Maroon's in-goal. In a flurry of action that saw arms, legs and bodies flailing in desperation, a hand reached out and grounded the ball just before it skidded dead.


1987 State of Origin series, Games, Game I
Referee Stone was forced to make a split second pivotal decision without the help of the video referee backup of today's game. Stone ruled that McGaw had touched down centimetres inside the dead-ball line for a try, despite the protests of the Qld players and the 33,000 strong Lang Park crowd yelling for him to call in their favour and prevent the Maroons from losing their 7th game from the past 8 contests.


1987 State of Origin series, Games, Game I
While video replays ultimately proved inconclusive, leaving the decision a controversial one still debated among many today, Stone was adamant that the try had been scored and later confirmed that had there not been a try scored, he would have awarded a penalty try to NSW in any case as Qld centre Peter Jackson had attempted to hold back McGaw by grabbing his jumper.


1987 State of Origin series, Games, Game II
Game II at the Sydney Cricket Ground in front of a record Origin crowd of 42,048 was played in torrential rain. The powerful kicking of Lewis and fullback Gary Belcher was superior to the Blues' who were forced to play much of the match in their own half. Queensland capitalised on New South Wales' errors  to emerge with a 12-6 victory. On his 27th birthday, Peter Sterling earned the man-of-the-match award, a rare honour for a player on the losing side.


1987 State of Origin series, Games, Game II
Before the game, and despite Queensland having won Origin from 1980–84, as New South Wales had won the 1985 and 1986 series and 7 of the previous 8 games going into game 2 (dating back to Game 3 in 1984), and with the addition of the Brisbane Broncos and Gold Coast Seagulls into the Sydney premiership in 1988, some in the Sydney press were wondering about the future of Origin with the general feeling being that the Blues were set to embark on another period of domination like the one that had brought about the Origin concept in the first place. Queensland's gutsy win under pressure and in adverse conditions silenced the critics.


1987 State of Origin series, Games, Game III
The series decider at Lang Park was a classic Origin knife's-edge encounter that swung from one end of the field to the other. Queensland scored two brilliantly conceived tries to lead 10-8 at halftime and defied the Blues in a scoreless second half of incredible tension. After referee Barry Gomersall ruled New South Wales centre Michael O'Connor offside from a Cliff Lyons kick (though television replays showed it was line-ball), Queensland winger Dale Shearer kicked a penalty goal in the 39th minute, giving the Maroons a two-point win and the Series. Langer was a triumphant figure for Queensland and in his third Origin game was named 'man of the match' after playing the game of his life.


1987 State of Origin series, Games, Exhibition match
Later in the season an exhibition match was played at Long Beach, California. The game did not count toward the series, but the match retained State of Origin status and is included in the records and player appearance calculations.


1987 State of Origin series, Games, Exhibition match
It was billed as an historic occasion for the game and an opportunity for rugby league to grab a foothold in the United States. It was a bold endeavour, but ultimately the match failed to create the barest ripple on America's sporting consciousness. There was minimal press coverage of the game and disputes over whether a 12,500 crowd or less (some estimates say 7,000) were in attendance, with many tickets given away free.


1987 State of the Union Address
The 1987 State of the Union Address was given by the 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan, on Tuesday, January 27, 1987, at 9 p.m. EST, in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives to the 100th United States Congress. It was Reagan's sixth State of the Union Address and his seventh speech to a joint session of the United States Congress. Presiding over this joint session was the House speaker, Jim Wright, accompanied by George H. W. Bush, the vice president.


1987 State of the Union Address
Progressing to the Afghanistan situation, he says: "The Soviet Union says it wants a peaceful settlement in Afghanistan, yet it continues a brutal war and props up a regime whose days are clearly numbered. We are ready to support a political solution that guarantees the rapid withdrawal of all Soviet troops and genuine self-determination for the Afghan people." He ended with, "But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun." Well, you can bet it's rising because, my fellow citizens, America isn't finished. Her best days have just begun." The speech lasted 34 minutes and 39 seconds and contained 3847 words. The address was broadcast live on radio and television. The Democratic Party response was delivered by Senator Robert Byrd (WV), and House Speaker Jim Wright (TX)


1987 State of the Union Address
Richard Lyng, the Secretary of Agriculture, served as the designated survivor.


1987 Stella Artois Championships
The 1987 Stella Artois Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London, United Kingdom that was part of the 1987 Nabisco Grand Prix circuit. It was the 85th edition of the tournament and was held from 8 June until 15 June 1987. First-seeded Boris Becker won the singles title.


1987 Stella Artois Championships, Finals, Doubles
Guy Forget /  Yannick Noah defeated  Rick Leach /  Tim Pawsat 6–4, 6–4


1987 Stella Artois Championships – Doubles
Kevin Curren and Guy Forget were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Curren with Brad Pearce and Forget with Yannick Noah.


1987 Stella Artois Championships – Doubles
Curren and Pearce lost in the first round to Stefan Edberg and Mats Wilander.


1987 Stella Artois Championships – Doubles
Forget and Noah won in the final 6–4, 6–4 against Rick Leach and Tim Pawsat.


1987 Stella Artois Championships – Singles
Tim Mayotte was the defending champion but lost in the semifinals to no.1 seeded Boris Becker.


1987 Stella Artois Championships – Singles
Becker won the singles title at the 1987 Stella Artois Championships tennis tournament by defeating Jimmy Connors in the final 6–7, 6–3, 6–4.


1987 Stevenage Borough Council election
The 1987 Stevenage Borough Council election took place on 7 May 1987. This was on the same day as other local elections. One third of the council was up for election; the seats which were last contested in 1983. The Labour Party retained control of the council, which it had held continuously since its creation in 1973.


1987 Stevenage Borough Council election, Overall results
All comparisons in vote share are to the corresponding 1983 election.


1987 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
The 10th Stinkers Bad Movie Awards were released by the Hastings Bad Cinema Society in 1988 to honour the worst films the film industry had to offer in 1987. As follows, there was only a Worst Picture category with provided commentary for each nominee, as well as a list of films that were also considered for the final list but ultimately failed to make the cut (32 films total).


1987 Stockholm Open
The 1987 Stockholm Open was a men's tennis tournament played on hard courts and part of the 1987 Nabisco Grand Prix; the tournament took place at the Kungliga tennishallen in Stockholm, Sweden. The tournament was held from 2 November until 8 November 1987. First-seeded Stefan Edberg won the singles title.


1987 Stockholm Open, Finals, Doubles
Stefan Edberg /  Anders Järryd defeated  Jim Grabb /  Jim Pugh, 6–3, 6–4


1987 Stockholm Open – Doubles
Sherwood Stewart and Kim Warwick were the defending champions, but did not participate this year.


1987 Stockholm Open – Doubles
Stefan Edberg and Anders Järryd won the title, defeating Jim Grabb and Jim Pugh 6–3, 6–4 in the final.


1987 Stockholm Open – Singles
Edberg successfully defended his title, defeating Jonas Svensson 7–5, 6–2, 4–6, 6–4 in the final.


1987 Sugar Bowl
The 1987 Sugar Bowl was the 53rd edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Thursday, January 1. Part of the 1986–87 bowl game season, it featured the fifth-ranked LSU Tigers of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and #6 Nebraska Cornhuskers of the Big Eight Conference. Favored Nebraska trailed early and won, 30–15.


1987 Sugar Bowl
It was the third time in five seasons that the teams had met in a major bowl game (1983 Orange, 1985 Sugar), and Nebraska won all three.


1987 Sugar Bowl, Game summary
Both televised by ABC, the game followed the Florida Citrus Bowl and kicked off shortly after 2:30 p.m. CST, two hours after the Cotton Bowl started on CBS, and ninety minutes before the Rose Bowl on NBC.


1987 Sugar Bowl, Game summary
LSU chose to wear white jerseys as the designated home team, despite an NCAA rule passed in 1983 which required the visiting team to wear white jerseys. LSU traditionally wore white at home from 1958–82, and has done so again since 1995, when the NCAA partially revoked the 1983 rule, allowing home teams to wear white with consent of the visitors. In 1997, the SEC ruled home teams would have jersey color choice without consent of the visitors for conference games.


1987 Sugar Bowl, Game summary
On the first play from scrimmage, underdog LSU gained 43 yards on a pass to Wendell Davis from freshman quarterback Tommy Hodson; the Tigers scored six plays later on a one-yard touchdown run from Harvey Williams. In the second quarter, Dale Klein kicked a 42-yard field goal for the Huskers and quarterback Steve Taylor scored on a two-yard run to give Nebraska a 10–7 lead at halftime.


1987 Sugar Bowl, Game summary
Early in the second half, fullback Tyreese Knox scored from a yard out and Nebraska led a 17–7 after three quarters. Tight end Todd Millikan caught a short touchdown pass from Taylor early in the fourth, and Knox added another one-yard run for thirty unanswered points and the score was 30–7 with under four minutes remaining. Hodson threw a 24-yard touchdown pass to Tony Moss (with a two-point conversion) to tighten the final score to 30–15.


1987 Sugar Bowl, Game summary
Nebraska's Taylor was named the game's most valuable player; the Huskers climbed to fifth in the final AP poll and LSU fell to tenth.


1987 Sugar Bowl, Game summary
After the game, Tom Osborne said "We weren't playing for the national championship, the Big Eight Championship was out the window. The only thing we had left was the Sugar Bowl."


1987 Sugar Bowl, Aftermath
The victory improved Nebraska to 5–0–1 all-time vs. LSU. The Cornhuskers defeated the Tigers 17–12 in the 1971 Orange Bowl (to secure the national title) and 10–7 in the 1975 season opener at Lincoln. They played to a 6–6 tie at Baton Rouge to open the 1976 season and Nebraska defeated the LSU Tigers in the 1983 Orange Bowl 21-20.


1987 Sugar Bowl, Aftermath
This was the final game for LSU under head coach Bill Arnsparger; he had accepted the athletic director position at conference rival Florida, announced immediately after the Tigers' regular season finale with Tulane on November 29. Arnsparger led LSU to the SEC championship this season, its first since 1970, but his minimal recruiting skills and 0–3 bowl record (two of those losses to the Cornhuskers) left many LSU fans in disfavor of him. Arnsparger departed with a 26–8–2 (.750) record and recommended his 33-year-old defensive coordinator Mike Archer as his successor.


1987 Sugar Bowl, Aftermath
Archer coached the next four seasons at LSU with a 27–18–1 (.598) record, but Arnsparger's lack of recruiting put him in a hole. Arnsparger's best players, such as NT Henry Thomas, OG Eric Andolsek, C Nacho Albergamo, and FS Chris Carrier, were all recruited by the previous head coach, Jerry Stovall. LSU played in bowls in the following two seasons, but then suffered through six consecutive losing seasons from 1989-84, the first two under Archer and the next four under Curley Hallman. LSU's next bowl game was the 1995 Independence Bowl under Gerry DiNardo.


1987 Sugar Bowl, Aftermath
LSU did not return to the Sugar Bowl (or any major bowl) until it won the SEC championship in 2001 under second-year coach Nick Saban. The Tigers then rolled over Illinois 47-34 in the 2002 Sugar Bowl behind Rohan Davey's 444 yards passing.


1987 Sugar Bowl, Aftermath
Nebraska continued its winning football under Tom Osborne with national championships in 1994 and 1995. They tied for another in 1997 and played for another in 2001 under Frank Solich.


1987 Sugar Bowl, Aftermath
The Cornhuskers have not played in the Sugar Bowl since this game. They are 3-1 in the Sugar Bowl, previously losing to Alabama in 1967 and defeating Florida in 1974, in addition to the victory over LSU in 1985.


1987 Suicide of Tamil Tigers
On 5 October 1987, 12 Tamil Tigers who were taken into custody by the Sri Lankan Navy committed suicide. They were brought to Sri Lankan Army base in Palali with 5 other unrelated individuals. When Sri Lankan Army attempted to take them to Colombo for interrogation, the 12 committed suicide by swallowing cyanide capsules.


1987 Suicide of Tamil Tigers
This incident happened two months after the Indian Peace Keeping Force arrived in the northeast of Sri Lanka under the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord. The suicide triggered an anti-Sinhalese pogrom in the Eastern Province carried out by the Tamil nationalist militant groups.


1987 Sul America Open
The 1987 Sul America Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Itaparica, Brazil that was part of the 1987 Nabisco Grand Prix. It was the second edition of the tournament and took place from 23 November through 29 November 1987. Eighth-seeded Andre Agassi, who entered on a wildcard, won the singles title.


1987 Sul America Open, Finals, Doubles
Sergio Casal /  Emilio Sánchez defeated  Jorge Lozano /  Diego Pérez 6–2, 6–2


1987 Sul America Open – Doubles
Chip Hooper and Mike Leach were the defending champions, but none competed this year.


1987 Sul America Open – Doubles
Sergio Casal and Emilio Sánchez won the title by defeating Jorge Lozano and Diego Pérez 6–2, 6–2 in the final.


1987 Sul America Open – Singles
Andrés Gómez was the defending champion, but lost in quarterfinals to Tomáš Šmíd.


1987 Sul America Open – Singles
Wild Card Andre Agassi won the title by defeating Luiz Mattar 7–6, 6–2 in the final.


1987 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
The 1987 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup was the third edition of invitational field hockey tournament the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup held in Malaysia at the Azlan Shah Stadium in Ipoh. West Germany won the title defeating Pakistan 3-2 in the final after a goal by Andreas Keller in extra-time. Hassan Sardar of Pakistan was voted as Lucky Star Player of the Tournament for his all-round performances


1987 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, Results, Preliminary round, Pool A
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) head-to-head result.


1987 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, Results, Preliminary round, Fixtures
Note: Penalty shootout was held to determine the group winner. Malaysia won 8-9


1987 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, Results, Preliminary round, Pool B
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) head-to-head result.


1987 Summer Universiade
The 1987 Summer Universiade, also known as the XIV Summer Universiade, took place in Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia. It involved participants from 111 countries and over 6,000 individual sportspersons and members of teams.


1987 Summer Universiade, Infrastructural changes
The city of Zagreb used the event to renovate and revitalize the city. The city's main square (Republic Square) was repaved with stone blocks and made part of the downtown pedestrian zone. A part of the Medveščak stream, which had been running under the sewers since 1898, was uncovered by workers. This part formed the Manduševac fountain that was also covered in 1898.


1987 Summer Universiade, Mascot
The mascot of the 1987 Summer Universiade is a squirrel, named "Zagi" and created by Nedjeljko Dragić. It is a resident of Zagreb's parks, amiable and always in a good mood. Its nonchalance and gaiety are but a cover for diligence. Always on the move and reaching for the seemingly impossible, the squirrel embodies the dynamism of athletic endeavour. Its origin is shown by the little black hat, characteristic of the folk costumes in the region of Zagreb.


1987 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1987 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held February 26–28 at E.A. Diddle Arena at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky.


1987 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
UAB upset hosts Western Kentucky in the championship game, 72–70, to win their fourth Sun Belt men's basketball tournament.


1987 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The Blazers, in turn, received an automatic bid to the 1987 NCAA Tournament. They were joined in the tournament by fellow Sun Belt member Western Kentucky, who received an at-large bid.


1987 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
There were no changes to the existing tournament format. All eight conference members were placed into the initial quarterfinal round and each team was seeded based on its regular season conference record.


1987 Sun Belt Conference men's soccer season
The 1987 Sun Belt Conference men's soccer season was the 11th season of men's soccer in the conference.


1987 Sun Bowl
The 1987 John Hancock Sun Bowl was the 54th annual Sun Bowl. The contest featured the West Virginia Mountaineers and the 11th-ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys. Oklahoma State edged out West Virginia, 35–33. The game was decided with 1:13 to play. The game was played on snowy, cold Christmas Day of 1987 before a crowd of 43,240 in front of a CBS national television audience.


1987 Sun Bowl
The game featured West Virginia's exciting new quarterback Major Harris, who had defeated Browning Nagle in the offseason for the Mountaineers' starting quarterback position. Nagle later transferred to Louisville. It was also the final college game for Oklahoma State running back Thurman Thomas, went on to Pro Football Hall of Fame career in the National Football League (NFL). Oklahoma State also featured tailback Barry Sanders. Sanders won the Heisman Trophy the following season and also went on to Pro Football Hall of Fame career.


1987 Sun Bowl, Game summary
The game featured a lot of offense, with teams trading touchdowns in the first quarter. Cowboys quarterback Mike Gundy and wide receiver Hart Lee Dykes completed a long pass off of a flea flicker to set up a 5-yard touchdown by Thomas. West Virginia's Anthony "A.B." Brown answered with a touchdown to tie the game at 7-7. Thomas scored again on a 9-yard run to take a 14–7 lead for Oklahoma State.


1987 Sun Bowl, Game summary
West Virginia, however, scored 17 unanswered points in the second quarter. West Virginia's Brown scored on a 5-yard run to tie the game at 14, and the Mountaineers extended their lead to 17–14 on a Charlie Baumann field goal. West Virginia defensive lineman Darnell Warren intercepted Mike Gundy to extend the Mountaineer lead to 24–14 at the end of the first half.


1987 Sun Bowl, Game summary
OSU reverted to Thomas to begin the second half, and he carried the ball six consecutive times, marching the Cowboys 56 yards down the field and scoring from 5 yards out to pull the Cowboys to within three at 24–21.


1987 Sun Bowl, Game summary
West Virginia answered with a Baumann field goal to extend the lead to 27–21. Oklahoma State took at 28–27 lead with 1:43 left in the third quarter, by virtue of a six-yard touchdown pass from Gundy to J. R. Dillard.


1987 Sun Bowl, Game summary
Thomas's dominance continued in the fourth quarter, as he capped a 13-play, 74-yard OSU drive with his fourth touchdown of the game, giving Oklahoma State a 35–27 lead with time running out in the fourth quarter.


1987 Sun Bowl, Game summary
With just 1:13 remaining, West Virginia's Craig Taylor scored a touchdown on a 6-yard run to pull the game to within two. West Virginia attempted to tie the game on a two-point conversion attempt. West Virginia quarterback Harris completed his two-point attempt pass to tight end Keith Winn, but Winn was tackled just shy of the goal line by Oklahoma State's Shawn Mackey.


1987 Sun Bowl, Game summary
With the win, Oklahoma State finished its season 10-2, lost only to No. 1 Oklahoma and No. 5 Nebraska. Thurman Thomas was named the C.M. Hendricks Most Valuable Player, while Sanders would go on to win the Heisman Trophy one year later. West Virginia's Darnell Warren was named the Jimmy Rogers Jr. Most Valuable Lineman.


1987 Sun Bowl, Game summary
Thomas still holds three Sun Bowl records: most rushing attempts (33), most points (24) and most touchdowns (4).


1987 Sun Bowl, Game summary
Initially, Sun Bowl officials granted the Ohio State Buckeyes an invitation to play Oklahoma State. The Buckeyes had beaten West Virginia in the season opener, and at 6–4–1 possessed a better record than the 6–5 Mountaineers. However, in the aftermath of the controversial firing of head coach Earle Bruce, Ohio State declined the invitation.


1987 Sun Bowl, Scoring summary
OSU - Thomas 5 run (Blanchard kick): OSU 7, WVU 0


1987 Sun Bowl, Scoring summary
WVU - Brown 1 run (Baumann kick): OSU 7, WVU 7


1987 Sun Bowl, Scoring summary
OSU - Thomas 9 run (Blanchard kick): OSU 14, WVU 7


1987 Sun Bowl, Scoring summary
WVU - Brown 5 run (Baumann kick): OSU 14, WVU 14


1987 Sun Bowl, Scoring summary
WVU - Warren 23 pass interception (Baumann kick): OSU 14, WVU 24


1987 Sun Bowl, Scoring summary
OSU - Thomas 4 run (Blanchard kick): OSU 21, WVU 24


1987 Sun Bowl, Scoring summary
OSU - Dillard 6 pass from Gundy (Blanchard kick): OSU 28, WVU 27


1987 Sun Bowl, Scoring summary
OSU - Thomas 4 run (Blanchard kick): OSU 35, WVU 27


1987 Sun Bowl, Scoring summary
WVU - Taylor 6 run (Two-point conversion failed): OSU 35, WVU 33 (FINAL)


1987 Sun Bowl, Individual statistics
RushingOSU - Thomas 33-157, Sanders 6-19, Gundy 8-9WVU - Brown 32-167, Harris 24-103, Taylor 12-58, Napoleon 2-3


1987 Sun Bowl, Individual statistics
ReceivingOSU - Dykes 3-72, Thomas 3-20, Williams 1-19, Dillard 3-18, Keith 1-16, Green 1-16WVU - Bell 1-45, Winn 1-9


1987 Super Bowl of Poker
The Super Bowl of Poker (also known as Amarillo Slim's Super Bowl of Poker or SBOP) was the second most prestigious poker tournament in the world during the 1980s. While the World Series of Poker was already drawing larger crowds as more and more amateurs sought it out, the SBOP "was an affair limited almost exclusively to pros and hard-core amateurs."


1987 Super Bowl of Poker
Prior to 1979, the only high dollar tournament a person could enter was the WSOP. 1972 WSOP Main Event Champion and outspoken ambassador for poker Amarillo Slim saw this as an opportunity. "The World Series of Poker was so successful that everybody wanted more than one tournament," he said. Slim called upon his connections and friendships with poker's elite to start a new tournament in the February 1979.


1987 Super Bowl of Poker
Before the SBOP had developed a reputation of its own, many of the most respected names in poker attended the tournament "more to support Slim and take advantage of the very fat cash games the event would obviously inspire." Slim modelled his SBOP after the WSOP with several events and a $10,000 Texas Hold'em Main Event.


1987 Super Bowl of Poker
One of the principal differences between the WSOP and the SBOP was the prize structure. The WSOP's prize structure was flat ensuring more people received smaller pieces of the prize pool. The SBOP typically used a 60-30-10 payout structure. In other words, only the first three places received money and generally in the ratio of 60% to first place, 30% to second place, and 10% to third. This payment schedule predominated the SBOP for the first 5 years of the event, but as the event grew the number of payouts increased while keeping the payout schedule top heavy.


1987 Super Bowl of Poker, 1987 Tournament
Three Poker Hall of Famers played at the final table in the $200 Pot Limit Omaha event. Johnny Chan was a relative newcomer compared to the older veterans Jack Keller and Johnny Moss, but Chan succeeded in defeating both to claim the title. Chan later made it to another final table and played against future Hall of Famer, Barbara Enright at the $200 No Limit Hold'em. Howard Andrew won the event.


1987 Superstition Hills earthquakes
The 1987 Superstition Hills and Elmore Ranch earthquakes were a pair of earthquakes Mw 6.2 and 6.6 that rattled the Imperial Valley of California. The earthquakes caused damage to places in California and Mexico, and was felt as far as Las Vegas and Phoenix. Both main shocks were larger than the deadly earthquake that struck Los Angeles on October 1, which was a magnitude 5.9.


1987 Superstition Hills earthquakes, Geology
Both mainshocks were situated in the Salton Trough, a pull-apart basin caused by extension between offset strike-slip faults. The Brawley Seismic Zone is an area of extension and small divergent plate boundary that connects the Imperial Fault with the San Andreas Fault. Earthquake swarms are common in the fault zone, with the last one in 2021. The San Jacinto Fault is a long, active strike-slip fault in Southern California that is part of the San Andreas Fault which accommodates the motion between the North American and Pacific Plate.


1987 Superstition Hills earthquakes, Geology
The Imperial Valley is one of the most seismically active areas in California. There have been earthquakes of M 6 or greater in 1915, 1940, and 1979, with the strongest, an M 6.7 quake that killed seven people in 1940. The geological forces that caused the November 23-24, 1987, earthquakes are the same ones that rifted Baja California from Mexico to form the Sea of Cortez.


1987 Superstition Hills earthquakes, Earthquake
The earthquakes consisted of two main shocks; the Mw 6.2 that was followed by an Mw 6.6 eleven hours later. Both epicenters are located within Imperial County, near the Salton Sea.


1987 Superstition Hills earthquakes, Earthquake, November 23 1987
The first shock occurred at 5:53 pm along a previously undetected north-east striking structure. It was associated with left-lateral (sinistral) fault rupture and had a maximum offset of 12.5 cm. The epicenter was located in a sparsely populated area 22.5 km north of Westmorland.


1987 Superstition Hills earthquakes, Earthquake, November 24 1987
The second main shock was larger and it was caused by movement on the Superstition Hills and Superstition Mountain faults, which are part of the San Jacinto Fault Zone, along which ground rupture was observed. This event occurred at 5:16 am, nearly 12 hours later and centered 9.7 km southwest of the first quake. Right-lateral (dextral) rupture that was seen for 27 km. A maximum of 65 cm of dextral offset was measured on December 2, 1987.


1987 Superstition Hills earthquakes, Impact, Imperial Valley
The first earthquake forced the closure of a runway at the Naval Air Facility, El Centro but no damage was found after inspection. Telephone services were affected because the earthquake had destroyed some lines. The shaking triggered an "unusual event"  declaration at the San Onofre nuclear plant, but the facility was unaffected.


1987 Superstition Hills earthquakes, Impact, Imperial Valley
Damage was reported at El Centro, Imperial and Westmorland. Fallen chimneys, pipes, and windows were seen in properties. Some roads needed to be replaced because they were offset or cracked from liquefaction. About 40 mobile homes were wrenched from their stands. The Southern California Irrigation District estimated  $600,000 to $750,000 worth of damage to canal facilities. The initial earthquake resulted in minor buckling of the canal concrete reinforce while the second shock collapsed many of the concrete. In Calexico, the wall of a furniture store collapsed on automobiles, and in El Centro, another brick wall fell onto a car.


1987 Superstition Hills earthquakes, Impact, Imperial Valley
Many homes and businesses lost power following the earthquake. Fifty people were injured in Imperial County. California 86 between Westmorland and El Centro was damaged and closed off. California 98 was closed at Ocotillo at the junction with Interstate 8 after a road buckled. The entry station between Mexicali and Calexico was closed for damage inspection.


1987 Superstition Hills earthquakes, Impact, Los Angeles
Tremors were felt but there was no damage. Los Angeles County fire dispatcher reported calls from residents asking if there had been an earthquake. Many people were frightened by the earthquake, in the wake of the Whittier Narrows quake two months earlier. In Orange County, people started stoking up in survival appliances such as water purification tablets and water bottles for their earthquake preparedness kits. The California Department of Transportation began inspecting freeways for possible damage. This region experienced a deadly earthquake that killed eight on October 1 the same year.


1987 Superstition Hills earthquakes, Impact, San Diego
The first event struck while city councils were having a conference on the 12th floor, shaking caused some turmoil in the room. The San Diego Fire Department reported minor cracks to five of their stations.


1987 Superstition Hills earthquakes, Impact, Mexico
Forty-four were injured in Mexico. The injuries included broken bones, sprains, cuts, and some heart attacks. In Mexicali, hundreds evacuated from buildings, and 35 were damaged, including several hospitals. Structural damage and fires were reported. Two people, a woman and her child were killed as they were fleeing a factory and was struck by an oncoming vehicle.


1987 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
The 1987 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira was the 9th edition of the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, the annual Portuguese football season-opening match contested by the winners of the previous season's top league and cup competitions (or cup runner-up in case the league- and cup-winning club is the same). The 1987 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira was contested over two legs, and opposed Benfica and Sporting CP of the Primeira Liga. Benfica qualified for the SuperCup by winning the 1986–87 Primeira Divisão and the 1986–87 Taça de Portugal, whilst Sporting CP qualified for the Supertaça by being the cup-runner.


1987 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
The first leg which took place at the Estádio da Luz, saw Sporting CP defeat Benfica 3–0. The second leg which took place at the Estádio José Alvalade saw a 1–0 Sporting CP win (4–0 on aggregate), which granted the Leões a second Supertaça.


1987 Surinamese constitutional referendum
A constitutional referendum was held in Suriname on 30 September 1987. Voters were asked to approve the country's new constitution. It provided for a 51-seat unicameral National Assembly elected by proportional representation and a President elected by the National Assembly. Over 96% voted in favour, with a turnout of 62.7%.


1987 Surinamese general election
General elections were held in Suriname on 25 November 1987, the first for over ten years. The result was a victory for the Front for Democracy and Development (an alliance of the National Party of Suriname, the Progressive Reform Party and the Party for National Unity and Solidarity), which won 40 of the 51 seats. Voter turnout was 87.3%.


1987 Surinamese general election, Results
1 The Progressive Reform Party received 16 of the seats, the National Party of Suriname received 14 and the Party for National Unity and Solidarity received 10.


1987 Suzuka 500 km
The Suzuka 500 km, was the opening round of the 1987 All Japan Sports Prototype Championship  was held at the Suzuka Circuit, on 12 April, in front of a crowd of approximately 18,000.


1987 Suzuka 500 km, Report, Entry
A total of 24 cars were entered for the event, across three classes ranging from Local Prototypes to Group C Prototypes.


1987 Suzuka 500 km, Report, Qualifying
The pairing of Hideki Okada and Mike Thackwell took pole position for From A Racing, in their Porsche 962C ahead of the new partnership of Kazuyoshi Hoshino and Kenji Takahashi for Hoshino Racing, in their Nissan R87E, by just 0.42secs.


1987 Suzuka 500 km, Report, Race
The race was held over 85 laps of the Suzuka circuit, a distance of 500 km (actual distance was 502.519 km). Hideki Okada and Mike Thackwell took the winner spoils for From A Racing, driving their Porsche 962C. The pair won in a time of 2hr 57:25.959mins., averaging a speed of 106.206 mph. Second place went to Kunimitsu Takahashi and Kenny Acheson in the Advan Alpha Nova’s Porsche 962C who finished just 2.775 seconds adrift. Also, the lead lap, was the third placed Toyota 87C of Geoff Lees and Alan Jones.


1987 Svaneti avalanches
The 1987 Svaneti avalanches was a series of massive avalanches in the northwest Caucasus highlands of the then-Soviet republic of Georgia, which hit, in January 1987, the country's Svaneti province, namely the Mestia and Lentekhi districts.


1987 Svaneti avalanches
The avalanches were brought about by unprecedented snowfall which lasted for 46 days, falling 16 meters thick at several places. From 9 to 31 January 1987 330 avalanches were registered. The mountainous villages such as Chuberi, Ushguli, Mulakhi, Kala, and Khaishi were heavily hit. The village of Zhamushi was completely buried in snow, with 26 killed. In total, 105 people died in the disaster. More than 2,000 houses were damaged and about 8,500 people had to be resettled. The total damage caused was about $300 million.


1987 Svenska Cupen Final
The 1987 Svenska Cupen final took place on 29 June 1987 at Råsunda in Solna. The match was contested by the back then second tier Div II teams Kalmar FF and GAIS. GAIS played their first final since 1942 and their second final in total, Kalmar  played their first final since 1981 and their 2nd final in total. Kalmar FF  won their 2nd title with a 2–0 victory.


1987 Swan Premium Open
The 1987 Swan Premium Open was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Sydney in Australia and was part of the 1987 Nabisco Grand Prix. It was the 15th edition of the tournament and was held from 12 October through 18 October 1987. First-seeded Ivan Lendl won the singles title, his second after 1985.


1987 Swan Premium Open, Finals, Doubles
Darren Cahill /  Mark Kratzmann defeated  Boris Becker /  Robert Seguso 6–3, 6–2


1987 Swan Premium Open – Doubles
Boris Becker and John Fitzgerald were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Becker with Robert Seguso and Fitzgerald with Eric Jelen.


1987 Swan Premium Open – Doubles
Fitzgerald and Jelen lost in the first round to Matt Anger and Kelly Evernden.


1987 Swan Premium Open – Doubles
Becker and Seguso lost in the final 6–3, 6–2 to Darren Cahill and Mark Kratzmann.


1987 Swan Premium Open – Singles
Boris Becker was the defending champion but lost in the semifinals to Pat Cash.


1987 Swan Premium Open – Singles
Ivan Lendl won in the final 6–4, 6–2, 6–4 against Cash.


1987 Swazi general election
General elections were held in Swaziland in November 1987, having originally been scheduled for 1988, but brought forward due to tensions in the country. The elections was held using the Tinkhundla system, in which voters elected members to an electoral college, who then selected 40 non-party candidates for the Parliament, whilst the King appointed a further ten. Unlike previous elections, all forty of the selected candidates were new to parliament.


1987 Swedish Golf Tour
The 1987 Swedish Golf Tour was the fourth season of the Swedish Golf Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments held in Sweden and Denmark.


1987 Swedish Golf Tour, Schedule
The season consisted of 14 events played between April and September.


1987 Swedish Golf Tour (women)
The 1987 Swedish Golf Tour was the second season of the Swedish Golf Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments for women held in Sweden.


1987 Swedish Golf Tour (women)
Tournament Director for a second year was Ulf Jacobsson, and player representative was Liv Wollin. Tournaments were played over 54 holes with no cut, the SI and LET events over 72 holes with cuts.


1987 Swedish Golf Tour (women), Schedule
The season consisted of 9 events played between May and September. The tour planned to continue Kristianstad Ladies Open and Aspeboda Ladies Open as Ladies European Tour events and added the European Masters, slated to be the richest LET event of the season with a purse of 1,100,000, but ultimately withdrew all three from the LET.


1987 Swedish Open
The 1987 Swedish Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts held in Båstad, Sweden and was part of the Grand Prix circuit of the 1987 Tour. It was the 40th edition of the tournament and was held from 27 July through 2 August 1987. Fifth-seeded Joakim Nyström won the singles title.


1987 Swedish Open, Finals, Doubles
Stefan Edberg /  Anders Järryd defeated  Emilio Sánchez /  Javier Sánchez 7–6, 6–3


1987 Swedish Open – Doubles
Sergio Casal and Emilio Sánchez were the defending champions, but they did not participate as a team this year.


1987 Swedish Open – Doubles
Stefan Edberg and Anders Järryd won the title, defeating  Emilio Sánchez and Javier Sánchez, 7–6, 6–3 in the final.


1987 Swedish Open – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1987 Swedish Open – Singles
The defending champion was Emilio Sánchez but he lost in the semifinals. The fifth seeded, Joakim Nyström from Sweden won the singles title.


1987 Swedish Open – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1987 Swedish football Division 1, Overview
It was contested by 28 teams, and Djurgårdens IF and GAIS won the championship.


1987 Swedish football Division 2
Statistics of Swedish football Division 2 for the 1987 season.


1987 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1987 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix was the tenth round of the 1987 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 8–9 August at the Scandinavian Raceway.


1987 Swiss Indoors
The 1987 Swiss Indoors was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland that was part of the 1987 Nabisco Grand Prix circuit. It was the 18th edition of the tournament and took place from 5 October until 11 October 1987. First-seeded Yannick Noah won the singles title.


1987 Swiss Indoors, Finals, Doubles
Anders Järryd /  Tomáš Šmíd defeated  Stanislav Birner /  Jaroslav Navrátil 6–4, 6–3


1987 Swiss federal election
Federal elections were held in Switzerland on 18 October 1987. The Free Democratic Party remained the largest party in the National Council, winning 51 of the 200 seats.


1987 Swiss referendums
Seven referendums were held in Switzerland in 1987. The first four were held on 5 April on amendments to the laws on asylum and foreign residents (both approved), a popular initiative "for the people's co-determination of military expenditure" (rejected) and a federal resolution on the voting system for popular initiatives that also have counter-proposals (approved).


1987 Swiss referendums
The last three were held on 6 December on a federal resolution on the Rail 2000 project (approved), an amendment to the federal law on health insurance (rejected) and a popular initiative "for the protection of fens - Rothenthurm Initiative" (approved).


1987 Syracuse Orangemen football team
The 1987 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University in the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Orangemen were led by seventh-year head coach Dick MacPherson and played their home games at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, New York. The team finished 11–0–1 and tied Auburn in the 1988 Sugar Bowl. The 11 wins by the Orangemen matched the school record set by the national champion 1959 team, and their 4th-ranked finish in the AP Poll was the first ranked finish since 1961.


1987 São Paulo FC season
The 1987 São Paulo FC season details the competitions entered, matches played and teams faced by the São Paulo Futebol Clube in the 1987 season, showing the result in each event. Both friendly and official events are included. São Paulo Futebol Clube is a professional football club based in São Paulo, Brazil. They play in the Campeonato Paulista, São Paulo's state league, and the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A or Brasileirão, Brazil's national league.


1987 TAAC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1987 Trans America Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament (now known as the Atlantic Sun Men's Basketball Tournament) was held March 7–9 at Barton Coliseum in Little Rock, Arkansas.


1987 TAAC Men's Basketball Tournament
Georgia Southern defeated conference newcomer Stetson in the championship game, 49–46, to win their second TAAC/Atlantic Sun men's basketball tournament. The Eagles, therefore, received an automatic bid to the 1987 NCAA Tournament.


1987 TAAC Men's Basketball Tournament
Texas–San Antonio joined the TAAC for the 1986–87 season, bringing the total conference membership to 10. However, only the top eight teams were invited to participate in the 1987 conference tournament.


1987 TCU Horned Frogs football team
The 1987 TCU Horned Frogs football team represented Texas Christian University (TCU) in the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Horned Frogs finished the season 5–6 overall and 3–4 in the Southwest Conference. The team was coached by Jim Wacker, in his fifth year as head coach. The Frogs played their home games in Amon G. Carter Stadium, which is located on campus in Fort Worth, Texas.


1987 TFL Statewide League season
The 1987 TFL Statewide League premiership season was an Australian rules football competition, staged across Tasmania over 18 roster rounds and six finals series matches between 4 April and 12 September 1987. This was the second season of statewide football and the League was known as the Cascade-Boags Statewide League under a dual commercial naming-rights sponsorship agreement with both Cascade Brewery in Hobart and Boag's Brewery in Launceston.


1987 TFL Statewide League season, Participating Clubs, Leading Goalkickers: TFL Statewide League
Note: The TFL Goalkicking award was won by New Norfolk's Paul Dac with 80 goals, Dac kicked 14 goals in the last roster match against North Launceston to take the prize, at the completion of the finals series, Dac was joined by Hobart's Wayne Fox and North Hobart's Steve McQueen, who both finished on 80 goals.


1987 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
The 1987 TFL Statewide League competition got underway on 4 April 1987 and was now a fully statewide concept with clubs from the South, North and North West participating. There was much excitement on the North West Coast with Devonport undergoing a change of jumper, emblem and colours (formerly Magpies, now Blues) and coastal rival, Burnie Hawks (formerly Cooee) making their debut.


1987 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
The standout performers this season were North Hobart, who swept all before them winning sixteen out of their eighteen roster matches and finished on top. Glenorchy, Clarence and Hobart all performed very well throughout the season, all vying for top-two positions at various stages. 1986 Grand Finalists Sandy Bay, with the loss of as many as ten senior players from the previous year's team, performed poorly under Andy Bennett and slid to second last on the ladder by season's end.


1987 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
Burnie Hawks, Devonport and the much-improved South Launceston all strived for the final spot in the top-five, Burnie Hawks managing to cling to fifth at the end of the roster series, six games (24 points) behind Hobart in fourth.


1987 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
Devonport, whose history in the NWFU over the previous fifty years had been one of considerable under-achievement, having only won one flag since 1938 were looking in fine form midway through the season and were also challenging for a top-three spot, but fell in a heap at the latter end of the season dropping its final seven matches to miss the five by 10.70%, whilst South Launceston, who had performed very well at the latter end of the season needed to beat the rampaging North Hobart at Youngtown in the final round to make the finals but were demolished by 121-points.


1987 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
New Norfolk, still sorting out their considerable financial problems stemming back to their 1982 TANFL Premiership year, weren't able to produce consistent football and remained in the bottom three. North Launceston under coach Tony "Chang" Young struggled again to make an impact and finished on the bottom, however the club had earmarked some major changes to its playing list and coaching staff over the next eighteen months to become a power club once again.


1987 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
Glenorchy and Clarence would again do battle in the finals, the Magpies winning a classic contest in the Qualifying Final after trailing for most of the first half, only winning in the closing minutes by 13-points. The following day, Hobart and the Burnie Hawks met in the Elimination Final at KGV Football Park to an unusual sight in TFL Football, a thunderstorm just prior to the opening bounce. The weather failed to dampen the Tigers spirits as they raced away after quarter-time to take a 51-point victory and earn a shot at Clarence in the First Semi Final.


1987 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
The Second Semi Final between North Hobart and Glenorchy at North Hobart Oval was pretty much a one-sided contest after quarter-time as the Demons pegged back a slender Magpie lead and raced away with the match to win by 41-points, their followers were jubilant at the chance of seeing their Red & Blue heroes break a long premiership hoodoo. At KGV Football Park the following day, Hobart and Clarence staged an epic First Semi Final.


1987 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
The Roos held sway for much of the day including an 11-point three-quarter time lead, but Hobart struck back and 29-minutes into the final quarter, Hobart's Alistair Lynch marked 30-metres out from goal and was felled heavily by Clarence centre half-back Greg Farquahar (who was subsequently suspended for five matches over the incident), Lynch was stretchered from the ground.