1987 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
Burly Tiger full-forward Wayne Fox took the kick to win the game for Hobart, but field umpire Haydyn Nielsen failed to pay the mandatory 15-metre penalty to Fox after reporting Farquahar, Fox's shot missed narrowly and the Roos were able to hold on for the final few seconds to win by four points. Glenorchy and Clarence again met in the Preliminary Final at North Hobart Oval before an expectant crowd of almost 7,000 and the match did not disappoint.


1987 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
The two bitterest rivals in Tasmanian football were neck and neck all day with many lead-changes but the Magpies held sway at all three changes, eventually holding out the Roos by twelve points to play in another Grand Final. The Grand Final saw North Hobart hoping to end a premiership drought extending back to 1974, Glenorchy aiming for a hat-trick of TFL premierships. The match was eerily similar to the Second Semi Final clash between the same two sides with Glenorchy getting out a fast start and North Hobart reeling them in and racing away with match.


1987 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
North Hobart booted a Grand Final record 11.3 (69) in the second quarter to go into half-time 19-points to the good of the Magpies, then inflicting further damage in the third quarter by racing out a 56-point lead at the final change. North Hobart fans celebrated wildly as their team broke its 13-year premiership drought in emphatic fashion by 52-points. At North Hobart Oval, works commenced on the building of the $1.25 million Doug Plaister Stand, after the 1923-built Letitia Street Stand was destroyed by a mid-morning fire on Sunday, 31 May.


1987 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
The stand, which had had works carried out on it in recent years by the Hobart City Council after ABC-Television engineers raised safety concerns over the structure in 1980 and had later been condemned in 1981, was destroyed when rubber matting was deliberately set on fire in a store-room at the rear of the structure, two youths were questioned by police over the fire but no charges were laid, the damage was estimated at $50,000 and the structure was demolished by the Hobart City Council that same day due to safety concerns.


1987 Taipei Women's Championships
The 1987 Taipei Women's Championships was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts in Taipei, Taiwan and was part of the Category 1 tier of the 1987 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from 20 April through 26 April 1987. Third-seeded Anne Minter won the singles title.


1987 Taipei Women's Championships, Finals, Doubles
Cammy MacGregor /  Cynthia MacGregor defeated  Sandy Collins /  Sharon Walsh 7–6(10–8), 5–7, 6–4


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season
The 1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season was the franchise's 12th season in the National Football League the 12th playing their home games at Tampa Stadium and the first under head coach  Ray Perkins. It was a year of great change for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ organization in the National Football League. Perkins had only needed three seasons to build the Giants into a playoff team, and it was hoped that he would be able to repeat the feat with the Buccaneers. They improved over their 2–14 record from 1986 and finished 4–11.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season
The Buccaneers possessed the first overall pick in the NFL Draft, and used it to select University of Miami quarterback Vinny Testaverde. The Buccaneers appeared changed and won four games early in the season, but they notably lost large leads in later games and fell from playoff contention after midseason. The season was marked by a 1987 players’ strike in which regular play was interrupted for a month, while NFL owners fielded teams of replacement players.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Overview
Perkins brought discipline to a team that had been described as "the country club of the NFL", and rebuilt the team with youth. Perkins claimed that the Buccaneers were more talented than the New York Giants team he had taken over in 1979, and selected a then-record 20 players in the 1987 NFL Draft. He improved their conditioning program, and instituted three-a-day practices. Perkins’ harsh style was in stark contrast to the laid-back approach of his predecessor Bennett, of whom it was said that his "idea of team discipline was everyone wearing the same color uniform on game day".


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Overview
Conditioning improvements included emphasizing free weights over Nautilus machines, to improve explosiveness. Players were also given pay incentives to work out, although Perkins expressed surprise that players should need extra incentive to improve their conditioning. The improved conditioning paid off early in the season: their opening-week 48–10 win over the Atlanta Falcons ranked as the most Buccaneer points scored in a game, matched only in Super Bowl XXXVII, until the 2019 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, when they won 55-40 over the Los Angeles Rams. The team had a 1–1 record when the season was disrupted by the 1987 players’ strike.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Overview
Unlike in previous seasons, when players’ strikes stopped all play, the owners formed teams of replacement players to play the scheduled games. The Buccaneers had a 3–2 record when regular play resumed, and nearly beat a Chicago Bears team only one season removed from its Super Bowl victory. The game had been preceded by much media speculation over whether Bears star quarterback Jim McMahon would play.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Overview
It was the first week since undergoing surgery after being dropped on his shoulder following a play the previous November that McMahon was in the Bears’ lineup, although Mike Tomczak remained the starter for the game. The Buccaneers took a 20–0 lead and dominated the game for three-quarters. Late in the third quarter, McMahon came off the bench and sparked the Bears to a 27–26 win, their biggest comeback in team history. Two weeks later, Tampa Bay had a 28–3 fourth quarter lead over the St. Louis Cardinals.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Overview
In what is now the third-biggest comeback in NFL history, the Cardinals scored 4 touchdowns to win the game. The Buccaneers did not win again for the rest of the season. It was rare for an NFL team to fall into a season-long losing streak following such a defensive collapse. Once the Buccaneers were out of the playoff picture, Perkins began to prepare Testaverde for the next season. Testaverde's first start came on December 6 against the New Orleans Saints.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Overview
His 369 yards on 22 completions set a record for an NFL debut, but his two early fumbles set up a Saints lead that the Buccaneers were not able to overcome. Tackle Ron Heller, dispirited by Coach Perkins’ confrontational attitude and three-a-day practices that he believed were causing unnecessary injuries to the players, got into a fight with Perkins at halftime of this game that led to his being traded to the Seattle Seahawks. In return, the Buccaneers received defensive lineman Randy Edwards and a 1989 6th-round draft pick that was used to select linebacker Derrick Little.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Overview
Neither made the Buccaneers’ squad. Heller went on to play seven more solid seasons. The Buccaneers finished the season with a 4–11 record. Their 3–4 division record placed them ahead of the 4–11 Detroit Lions for fourth place in the NFC Central. Ron Holmes had eight quarterback sacks despite appearing in only ten games. Ervin Randle, who was named a UPI Second Team All-NFC linebacker, was the only Buccaneer to be singled out for postseason honors.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, The hiring of Ray Perkins
Ray Perkins replaced Leeman Bennett as the third head coach in Buccaneers history. Expectations had been that owner Hugh Culverhouse would hire popular ex-Tampa Bay Bandits coach Steve Spurrier, but Perkins was the only candidate interviewed. Perkins had been approached about the job two years earlier, but was not interested at the time. He was given the same title (Head Coach and Vice-President of Football Operations) as the previous two coaches.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, The hiring of Ray Perkins
He brought along seven of his Alabama assistants: linebackers coach Sylvester Croom, assistant coach John Bobo, running backs coach Rodney Stokes, defensive line coach Mike DuBose, strength coach Kent Johnston, head trainer Chris Smith, and defensive coordinator Joe Kines, who had previously been Charley Pell’s defensive coordinator with the Florida Gators. He rounded out his staff with Kansas City Chiefs secondary coach Doug Graber and receivers coach Richard Williamson, Buffalo Bills defensive coordinator Herb Paterra, SMU defensive coordinator Bill Clay, and Atlanta Falcons offensive line coach Larry Beightol.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, The hiring of Ray Perkins
Perkins also overhauled the scouting staff, firing most of them (including Jim Gruden, father of future Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden) shortly after the draft. No reason was given, but some observers, most outspokenly Boston Globe columnist Will McDonough, felt that the Buccaneers’ office was staffed heavily with people whose main experience was in college football, and that the team suffered from a lack of NFL knowledge. Recently fired Falcons coach Dan Henning turned down the offensive coordinator position, as he had been trying to rebuild the Falcons and did not want to relive that experience with another team.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, The hiring of Ray Perkins
Perkins had previously been hired as head coach of the New York Giants on the basis of his experience working with a losing franchise (the New England Patriots) that needed turning around. Perkins coached the Giants back to the playoffs, leaving four years later to succeed coaching legend Bear Bryant at the University of Alabama. Ironically, irritation over the 1982 players’ strike was a major factor in Perkins’ leaving the Giants, and became an issue he had to contend with again in 1987.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, The hiring of Ray Perkins
Frustration with what he saw as overregulation by the NCAA played a part in Perkins’ decision to return to the NFL. Along with $750,000 a year for five years, Perkins was given free rein to run the Buccaneers however he wanted. Some players were enthusiastic about the Perkins hire. "Coach Perkins will bring in a sense of pride here, and that's something we've been missing", said tackle Ron Heller. Others were upset with Perkins’ military-style manner, saying that he "made playing football a miserable experience".


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, NFL Draft, Draft trades
The Buccaneers received a 2nd- and a 4th-round draft pick from the San Francisco 49ers in exchange for quarterback Steve Young, and a 2nd-round pick from the New England Patriots in exchange for guard Sean Farrell. They swapped 2nd-round picks with the Buffalo Bills, and also received a 4th-round pick in return. The Buccaneers’ original 5th-round pick had been traded to the Patriots for a 6th-round pick the previous year.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, NFL Draft, Draft trades
They received a 5th-round pick from New England in exchange for a 4th-round pick the following year, and a 5th-round pick from the Washington Redskins in exchange for the rights to quarterback Doug Williams. The Buccaneers’ original 6th-round pick was traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers in exchange for center Dan Turk, but they received a 6th-round pick from the San Diego Chargers as part of an earlier deal for linebacker Andy Hawkins. The original 8th-round pick was traded to the New York Jets in exchange for tackle Marvin Powell.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, NFL Draft, Draft trades
Cornerback John Holt had been traded to the Indianapolis Colts in 1986 for the Colts’ 1987 8th-round pick. Linebacker Rick DiBernardo was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals for a 12th-round pick. Dan Sileo was signed as a free agent after the NCAA ruled that he had used up his college eligibility, but the league voided the agreement and declared that he must enter a draft. A special draft was held in which the Buccaneers selected him with a 1988 third-round pick.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, Vinny Testaverde
Using their number one selection in the 1987 draft, the Buccaneers selected quarterback Vinny Testaverde, who had led the Miami Hurricanes to a 21–3 record in games he started. Looking to avoid a repeat of the previous year's disastrous selection of Bo Jackson, the Buccaneers signed Testaverde 16 days before the draft began. Owner Hugh Culverhouse wanted to take one last shot at building the Buccaneers into a successful franchise, and made sure that money would not be an issue in signing Testaverde.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, Vinny Testaverde
In training camp, Testaverde failed to win the starting job over veteran Steve DeBerg, who coach Perkins felt gave the team a better chance to win. DeBerg was displaced for the fourth time, having played for the San Francisco 49ers when Joe Montana was drafted, the Denver Broncos when John Elway was traded for, and the Buccaneers when Steve Young was signed.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, Steve Young
When the Buccaneers selected University of Miami quarterback Vinny Testaverde first overall in the 1987 NFL Draft, starting quarterback Steve Young became expendable. He was traded to the 49ers on April 24, 1987. The 49ers were concerned about the health of Joe Montana, and were preparing for the possibility that he might not recover from back surgery. The Buccaneers received 2nd and 4th round draft picks in the trade, picks 50 and 106 overall, which they used to draft University of Miami linebacker Winston Moss and Arizona State wide receiver Bruce Hill. They also received an unspecified amount of cash in the deal. Young would spend the final 13 years of his career with the 49ers, a stint which would help him secure a spot in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, Other attempted deals
Coach Perkins met for several hours with Oklahoma linebacker Brian Bosworth, who entered a supplemental draft after being kicked off of the Oklahoma team. Perkins and Bosworth were impressed with each other, but the rights to select were awarded lottery-style, and the first selection went to the Seattle Seahawks. The Seahawks drafted Bosworth despite his having sent them a letter telling them not to bother. He expressed a preference to play for the Buccaneers.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, Other attempted deals
When the Indianapolis Colts failed to sign linebacker Cornelius Bennett, the second player selected in the draft (directly after Testaverde), they attempted to trade him to Tampa Bay. Perkins had previously coached Bennett at Alabama, but the Colts, looking for extra draft picks to trade to the Los Angeles Rams to get running back Eric Dickerson, wanted two draft picks in return for Bennett. Perkins felt that this price was too steep.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, Other attempted deals
Perkins also attempted to persuade Bo Jackson, their first-overall pick from the 1986 NFL Draft who had refused to sign with the Buccaneers, to change his mind and join the team. Coach Perkins would make a move in the Supplemental Draft by taking All-American defensive tackle Dan Sileo out of the University of Miami (FL) with a 3rd round pick, after the NCAA ruled he had used his eligibility up.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, 1987 players' strike
The NFL players went on strike during the third week of the 1987 season. Unlike in the 1982 season, in which play was suspended for the duration of the strike, the NFL continued to play a full schedule. Games were cancelled in the third week, but returned in the fourth with rosters of replacement players. These "scab" players were in some cases regular players who crossed the picket line, but were usually players who had previously failed to make an NFL team.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, 1987 players' strike
The Buccaneers’ replacement team was made up of a dozen of their training camp cuts, a dozen more players cut from other teams’ training camps, and 17 former players from the USFL’s Tampa Bay Bandits. The only regular Buccaneer to cross the picket line was center Dan Turk, although three inactive players crossed the picket line by receiving treatment for their injuries. There were a few notable names on the replacement roster.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, 1987 players' strike
Former Bandits quarterback and Florida Gators standout John Reaves started the first two games, while former Seattle Seahawks and Winnipeg Blue Bombers quarterback Jim Zorn returned to the NFL to start for the Buccaneers in the final replacement game. Former Oklahoma and USFL standout Marcus Dupree tried out for the replacement squad, but was rejected due to health concerns.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, 1987 players' strike
The replacement players finished with a 2–1 record. Several of them, notably Zorn and kicker John Carney, went on to have successful careers as players and coaches. Three replacement Buccaneers, Brian Gant, Steve Holloway, and Paul Tripoli, remained with the team once regular play resumed. Figures later published in the Los Angeles Times showed that the strike cost owners more than $108 million in potential income. All teams had less income in 1987 than in 1986, and the Buccaneers lost money, although they were the closest to profitability of the 21 teams who played the season for a loss.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs Atlanta Falcons
at Tampa Stadium, Tampa, FloridaThe Buccaneers opened the Ray Perkins era by setting team records for points scored, total yardage, margin of victory, and touchdown passes thrown. Steve DeBerg was 24 of 34 for 333 yards and five touchdowns, throwing touchdowns on each of the Buccaneers’ first four possessions. DeBerg's five touchdown passes still stands as a Buccaneers record, having been tied by Brad Johnson in 2002.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs Atlanta Falcons
Perkins, who had played with Joe Namath in college and Johnny Unitas in the pros, and drafted Phil Simms with the Giants, said that DeBerg had one of the best games of any quarterback with whom he had been associated. In a completely dominating performance, the Buccaneers controlled the ball for 38 minutes, allowed no sacks, and converted 14 of 16 third-down attempts. Meanwhile, the Buccaneers defense had four sacks and three turnovers. DeBerg did throw one interception, but on the very next play cornerback Bobby Futrell intercepted David Archer’s overthrow of tight end Ken Whisenhunt.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Chicago Bears
at Soldier Field, ChicagoThe Buccaneers forced four turnovers and held Bears running back Walter Payton to 24 yards on 15 carries, but the offense, who also committed four turnovers, was ineffective. One of Payton's runs was a 1-yard touchdown that broke Jim Brown’s all-time record of 106 touchdowns. Payton also caught a 9-yard touchdown pass that clinched the game with 3:20 remaining. The Buccaneers had only a field goal to show for four possessions inside the Bears’ 30-yard line. Vinny Testaverde made his NFL debut after Steve DeBerg left the game in the fourth quarter with a sprained medial collateral ligament.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs Green Bay Packers, cancelled
The players went out on strike in week 3. The main demand was free agency for all players with at least four years of service. The weekend's games were cancelled as the owners prepared teams of replacement players. According to owner Hugh Culverhouse, it would not be feasible to make up the cancelled games, with the TV networks already having their schedules set for the open weekend following the season.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 4: at Detroit Lions
Despite advance sales of 40,000 tickets, only 4,919 fans showed up to the first strike game played by replacement players. Neither team had any of its regular players on the roster. Detroit punter Mike Black's 3rd-quarter fumble on the 3-yard line set up Harold Ricks’ game-winning touchdown run. The Buccaneers’ three-second-quarter touchdowns overcame the Lions’ early 17-point lead. 17 of the Buccaneers’ points resulted from Lions turnovers. Around 1,000 union members, including UAW president Owen Bieber, joined the Lions on the picket lines. Attendance was also likely influenced by a baseball game taking place the same day, in which the Detroit Tigers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays to win the A.L. East Championship.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs San Diego Chargers
Rick Neuheisel came off the bench to lead the Chargers to three-second-half scores. Partly based on this performance, the Buccaneers later signed Neuheisel as a backup quarterback. Although many veteran NFL players crossed the picket line during the week, the Buccaneers were one of only six teams to have no players cross. More than 1,000 area union members joined the Buccaneers regulars in picketing the game, with some fans tearing up their tickets and joining them.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs Minnesota Vikings
at Tampa Stadium, Tampa, FloridaThe final replacement game featured a Vikings team with none of its regular players, facing a Buccaneers team with only center Dan Turk crossing the picket line. Tampa Bay took a 17–10 lead in the third quarter, after Kevin Walker's 30-yard interception return and Arthur Wells’ end-zone fumble recovery. The Buccaneers’ offensive output was limited to two field goals. Jim Zorn had been signed to replace the struggling John Reaves. Zorn also struggled, committing three early turnovers, but got his bearings and wound up 20–36 for 199 yards. The week was marked by sluggish work during practices. The players, some of whom were facing pressure to return to their regular jobs, were uncertain over whether they would have a game to play in by the time Sunday arrived.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs Chicago Bears
at Tampa Stadium, Tampa, FloridaChicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon, on the active roster for the first time in the season, came off the bench in the third quarter to rally the Bears past the Buccaneers. He scored a touchdown on a quarterback sneak with six minutes to go, and tied the game with a touchdown pass to Neal Anderson with 1:28 to go. The Buccaneers allowed seven sacks, but led for most of the game. The Bears were aided by the Buccaneers’ poor clock management and their reliance on a conservative offense in the fourth quarter.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs Chicago Bears
Perkins denied accusations that they went to a prevent defense and a three-man rush, but admitted that they played too conservatively on defense at the end. Steve DeBerg threw touchdown passes to Calvin Magee and Jeff Smith on the Buccaneers’ first two possessions. On the Bears’ next possession, Ron Holmes' hit on Mike Tomczak forced a fumble that was recovered in the end zone by Winston Moss to give the Buccaneers a 20–0 lead. The Bears scored two quick touchdowns in the second quarter, but the Buccaneers extended their lead with two Donald Igwebuike field goals.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs Chicago Bears
With the Bears struggling on offense, McMahon was inserted into the game. McMahon was 12 of 14 for 144 yards and led the Bears to 156 yards of offense in the last two drives, compared with 142 in the first 50 minutes of the game. A win would have tied the Buccaneers with the Bears for first place in the NFC Central.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Green Bay Packers
at Lambeau Field, Green Bay, WisconsinSteve DeBerg opened the second half with an 84-yard drive ending in a touchdown, and followed that with a touchdown pass to Gerald Carter a minute later. The game nearly became a repeat of the previous week, as the Packers replaced quarterback Don Majkowski with Randy Wright. Wright's two fourth-quarter touchdowns cut into Tampa Bay's 23–3 lead, but this time the offense was able to hold on to the ball. Two Calvin Magee catches for first downs sealed the victory.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Green Bay Packers
The Buccaneers’ 17 second-half points are credited to the coaching staff's adjustment to the Packers’ man-to-man defense. The Buccaneers and Packers both had the same amount of net yards (279), passing yards (190), and rushing yards (89). Donald Igwebuike's three field goals broke Bill Capece’s Buccaneer career record. The victory left the Buccaneers in second place in the NFC Central division. This led to speculation as to whether coach Perkins, who had been able to lead the New York Giants to the playoffs in three years as their coach, would be able to repeat the feat in a single year with Tampa Bay.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 9: at St. Louis Cardinals
With the Cardinals down by 25 points in the fourth quarter, quarterback Neil Lomax threw for three touchdowns in a come-from-behind win. One of the touchdowns was to tight end Robert Awalt, the other two to league reception leader J.T. Smith. Donald Igwebuike's potential game-tying 53-yard field goal attempt bounced off the crossbar as time ran out. The Cardinals came in on a three-game losing streak, while the Buccaneers entered the game leading the league in takeaways.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 9: at St. Louis Cardinals
The attendance of 22,449 was the Cardinals’ lowest in four years, the team having announced the previous week their plans to move to another city. Detectives were assigned to guard Cardinals owner Bill Bidwill due to death threats. Irritation over DeBerg's celebrations after his three touchdown passes provided inspiration to some of the Cardinals, who commented, "he's going to lose his job to Vinny Testaverde in a couple of weeks anyway". Awalt caught nine passes for 124 yards, while Smith caught eight passes for 96 yards.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 9: at St. Louis Cardinals
Said coach Perkins of his team's performance, "...they whipped us in every phase of the game. Even down 28–3, they were playing better football than we were". After the Buccaneers turned three consecutive potential blowout wins into nail-biters, safety Rick Woods said that the team seemed to be playing not to lose instead of playing to win. As an example, he noted that many players turned to see how much time was left on the clock after Cardinals linebacker Niko Noga returned a James Wilder Sr. fumble for a touchdown. The next week, Woods was demoted to the taxi squad.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 9: at St. Louis Cardinals
Offensive tackle Rob Taylor suffered a strained medial collateral ligament, and center Randy Grimes was also out for the fourth quarter with a hyperextended knee. "We should have gotten a lot more hurt", Perkins said, and accused his players of allowing positive press coverage to inflate their egos and cloud their judgments. The 25-point lead, if it had held, would have represented the largest margin of victory in a Buccaneers road win. Instead, it became the largest fourth-quarter comeback in NFL history.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 10: at Minnesota Vikings
at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, MinnesotaThe Rob Taylor injury from the previous week became a factor as Steve DeBerg was sacked four times, two resulting in fumbles. Perkins expressed dissatisfaction with Taylor's replacements, saying "I'm looking for a left tackle". Both fumbles were caused by Chris Doleman and recovered by Keith Millard, and both led to scores, including Tommy Kramer’s first touchdown pass since the previous Dec. 14. Several players were injured, including Vikings first-round draft pick D.J. Dozier. The Buccaneers threw forty-one times, while rushing for a team-low nine attempts.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 10: at Minnesota Vikings
They still had a chance at victory, until Minnesota cornerback Wymon Henderson intercepted a DeBerg pass. He returned the interception 17 yards before fumbling, but the officials ruled him to have been down before the fumble occurred. The instant replay-official overturned their call, but the field officials said that they could not return the ball to Tampa because the play had already been whistled dead. This outraged Buccaneer players, who claimed that no whistle had been blown. The Vikings proceeded to run out the clock. The Buccaneers had entered the game with the lead spot in the wild-card playoff race.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 11: vs San Francisco 49ers
Joe Montana completed 29 of 45 passes for 304 yards, and  Jerry Rice caught 7 passes for 103 yards and three touchdowns. Quarterbacks Montana and Steve DeBerg entered the game as the number one- and two-rated passers in the NFC, respectively, but DeBerg was held to 205 yards passing. 2nd-year cornerback Rod Jones was victimized on two of Rice's touchdown receptions. On one of these, Rice found Jones in single coverage, and took the ball 42 yards by simply outrunning him. James Wilder Sr. carried the ball 11 times for 48 yards, and scored his first touchdown of the year on a screen pass. Two Buccaneer fourth quarter scoring opportunities ended in turnovers.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 12: at Los Angeles Rams
at Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim, CaliforniaRams running back Charles White rushed for 137 yards and two touchdowns, while quarterback Jim Everett threw for 208 yards and another two touchdowns. The Buccaneers only entered Rams territory twice. According to coach Perkins, "The only guy who played with guts was Steve DeBerg". With two starting defensive linemen injured, the Buccaneers were forced to use three rookies, two of whom were making their NFL debuts. Early in the second quarter, a Mel Owens interception return set the Rams up for their second score, a run by White.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 12: at Los Angeles Rams
White scored the Rams’ third touchdown shortly afterward. After a Donald Igwebuike field goal early in the second half, the Buccaneers attempted an onside kick, but failed to gain possession. They never again crossed midfield. Sacked three times, DeBerg suffered a hyperextended back that resulted in his being replaced by Vinny Testaverde with 10:44 to play. "Beginning next week, we'll start making preparations for next year", Perkins said following the loss.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 13: at New Orleans Saints
at Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, LouisianaThe Saints, having achieved their first winning record in team history, clinched their first-ever playoff spot by defeating the Buccaneers 44–34. The Saints led the game for good after two early Vinny Testaverde fumbles deep in Buccaneer territory. Testaverde was given the starting job over Steve DeBerg, a change that was not revealed until gametime. "(Perkins) didn't want to give the Saints time to prepare for anything new", said Testaverde. In the second half, Testaverde made the Saints nervous by rallying the Buccaneers to score on four consecutive possessions.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 13: at New Orleans Saints
Mark Carrier’s 212 yards on eight receptions set a team record, and Bruce Hill contributed 73 yards on five receptions. The rally lifted team spirits. "There's definitely some light at the end of the tunnel, and it's not a train", said Perkins. The rally came after a turbulent halftime, in which Ron Heller urged his teammates not to quit. Ray Perkins, hearing only the word "quit", punched Heller in the head, breaking his thumb on Heller's helmet. The Saints’ first playoff-clinching win came on the tenth anniversary of the Buccaneers’ first victory in franchise history, also a road game against the Saints.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs Detroit Lions
at Tampa Stadium, Tampa, FloridaThe Lions rushed for 190 yards, while holding the Buccaneers to 47. Lions quarterback Chuck Long was 12 of 23 for 108 yards and a touchdown, while Testaverde was 20–39 for 262 yards and a touchdown. The Lions intercepted Testaverde once and sacked him four times, as they broke a four-game losing streak. Testaverde was lucky that it was not worse, as three of his potential turnovers were called back due to Lions penalties. On another two occasions, balls that bounced off of his receivers’ fingertips wound up caught by other Buccaneer receivers.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 15: vs St. Louis Cardinals
at Tampa Stadium, Tampa, FloridaTampa Bay led early, but Cardinal defensive back Cedric Mack recovered two Buccaneer fumbles that led to 10 Cardinal points. Neil Lomax tied a team record with 12 straight completions, completing 22–29 passes for 233 yards and three touchdowns. With Buc starting cornerback Rod Jones injured, Lomax exploited Bobby Futrell throughout the game. Stump Mitchell rushed for 101 yards and a touchdown.


1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 16: at Indianapolis Colts
at Indianapolis Hoosierdome, Indianapolis, IndianaThe Colts’ 24–6 victory over the Buccaneers clinched that franchise's first playoff berth, and first winning record since 1977. Although Pro Bowl linebacker Duane Bickett did not play, the Colts’ defense did not allow the Buccaneers inside the 20-yard line. Eric Dickerson ran 33 times for 196 yards and two touchdowns. Colts quarterback Jack Trudeau was 17 of 27 for 246 yards.


1987 Tanduay Rhum Makers season
The 1987 Tanduay Rhum Makers season was the 13th and final season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).


1987 Tanduay Rhum Makers season, Notable dates
March 22: Tanduay overturned Great Taste on import David Thirdkill's shot with a foul from Michael Young in the last three seconds to escape with a 105-104 protested win in the second game of the season opener. The Rhum Makers rallied from 16 points down in the final quarter and Thirdkill intentionally missed his free throw and the ball didn't hit the rim, the referees failed to see the violation resulting to Great Taste's Ricardo Brown missing a hurried three-point attempt at the buzzer.


1987 Tanduay Rhum Makers season, Notable dates
April 12: David Thirdkill scored 61 points as Tanduay pulled off a 129-124 double overtime triumph over arch rival Ginebra San Miguel in their first meeting of the season.


1987 Tanduay Rhum Makers season, Notable dates
April 21: Willie Generalao struck with an off-balance desperation shot in the final second as Tanduay repeated over Great Taste, 121-120, and moved out front with six wins and one defeat at the start of the second round of eliminations of the Open Conference.


1987 Tanduay Rhum Makers season, Notable dates
June 2: David Thirdkill scored his personal-best and conference-high 72 points to power the Rhum Makers past Great Taste, 136-124, for their second win in three games in the semifinals of the Open Conference.


1987 Tanduay Rhum Makers season, Notable dates
June 9: Tanduay Rhum Makers overwhelmed Ginebra San Miguel, 122-104, to arrange a second finals meeting with Great Taste Coffee Makers for the Open Conference crown.


1987 Tanduay Rhum Makers season, Notable dates
July 23: Ramon Fernandez scored 40 points as Tanduay ends their three-game slump in the All-Filipino Conference with their first victory, a 118-115 win over Magnolia.


1987 Tanduay Rhum Makers season, Notable dates
October 6: After scoring only 11 points in his debut, Import Freeman Williams hit 10 three-point shots and finish with a season-high 82 points to lift Tanduay to a 129-122 victory over Hills Bros, now mentored by their former coach Arturo Valenzona. Williams' 82 point output was the league's all-time fourth-best at that time, behind Michael Hackett's 103 in 1985, Larry McNeill's 88 in 1983 and Lew Massey's 85 in 1982.


1987 Tanduay Rhum Makers season, Championship
The Tanduay Rhum Makers won its third PBA title in the last four conferences by winning the Open Conference crown over Great Taste Coffee, four games to one.


1987 Tanduay Rhum Makers season, Occurrences
Coach Arturo Valenzona was sacked and replaced by assistant coach Ely Capacio after Tanduay performed poorly in the All-Filipino Conference, winning only twice in eight games and were eliminated from the semifinal round. The Rhum Makers ended up last place again in the Reinforced Conference and bowed out with a humiliating 127-145 loss to Ginebra San Miguel on November 3.


1987 Tanduay Rhum Makers season, Occurrences
The following year on January 16, 1988, the Elizalde-owned ballclub announced that they are taking a leave of absence from the PBA.


1987 Taça de Portugal Final
The 1987 Taça de Portugal Final was the final match of the 1986–87 Taça de Portugal, the 47th season of the Taça de Portugal, the premier Portuguese football cup competition organized by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). The match was played on 7 June 1987 at the Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, and opposed two Primeira Liga sides: Benfica and Sporting CP. Benfica defeated Sporting CP 2–1 to claim the Taça de Portugal for a twenty first time.


1987 Taça de Portugal Final
In Portugal, the final was televised live on RTP. As Benfica claimed both league and cup double in the same season, cup runners-up Sporting CP faced their cup final opponents in the 1987 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira.


1987 Team Ice Racing World Championship
The 1987 Team Ice Racing World Championship was the ninth edition of the Team World Championship. The final was held on ?, 1987, in Heerenveen in the Netherlands. The Soviet Union won their seventh title.


1987 Tel Aviv Open
The 1987 Tel Aviv Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts that was part of the 1987 Nabisco Grand Prix. It was played at the Israel Tennis Centers in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat HaSharon, Israel from October 12 through October 19, 1987. Third-seeded Amos Mansdorf  won the singels title.


1987 Tel Aviv Open, Finals, Doubles
Gilad Bloom /  Shahar Perkiss defeated  Wolfgang Popp /  Huub van Boeckel 6–2, 6–4


1987 Tel Aviv Open – Doubles
John Letts and Peter Lundgren were the defending champions, but Letts did not participate this year. Lundgren partnered Jeremy Bates, losing in the quarterfinals.


1987 Tel Aviv Open – Doubles
Gilad Bloom and Shahar Perkiss won the title, defeating Wolfgang Popp and Huub van Boeckel 6–2, 6–4 in the final.


1987 Tel Aviv Open – Singles
Amos Mansdorf won the tournament, beating Gilbert in the final, 3–6, 6–3, 6–4.


1987 Temple Owls football team
The 1987 Temple Owls football team was an American football team that represented Temple University as an independent during the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. In its fifth season under head coach Bruce Arians, the team compiled a 3–8 record and was outscored by a total of 251 to 154. The team played its home games at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia.


1987 Temple Owls football team
The team's statistical leaders included James Thompson with 985 passing yards, Todd McNair with 1,058 rushing yards, Keith Gloster with 411 receiving yards, and placekicker Bill Wright with 60 points scored.


1987 Tennent's Sixes
The 1987 Tennents' Sixes was the fourth staging of the indoor 6-a-side football tournament. For the second time it was held at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC) in Glasgow on 18 and 19 January.


1987 Tennent's Sixes
There were 4 groups of 3,  with all clubs drawn from the 1986–87 Scottish Premier Division season.


1987 Tennent's Sixes
The two group winners and runners-up qualified to the quarter-finals and Aberdeen beat Heart of Midlothian 4–3 in the final.


1987 Tennessee Volunteers football team
The 1987 Tennessee Volunteers football team (variously "Tennessee", "UT" or the "Vols") represented the University of Tennessee in the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. Playing as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the team was led by head coach Johnny Majors, in his 11th year, and played their home games at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee. They finished the season with a record of ten wins, two losses and one tie (10–2–1 overall, 4–1–1 in the SEC) and with a victory over Indiana in the Peach Bowl. The Volunteers offense scored 293 points while the defense allowed 249 points.


1987 Texas A&M Aggies football team
The 1987 Texas A&M Aggies football team represented Texas A&M University in the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC). The team was led by head coach Jackie Sherrill, in his sixth year, and played their home games at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas. They finished the season with a record of ten wins and two losses (10–2, 6–1 SWC), as Southwest Conference champions and with a victory over Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl Classic.


1987 Texas A&M Aggies softball team
The 1987 Texas A&M Aggies softball team represented Texas A&M University in the 1987 NCAA Division I softball season. The Aggies were coached by Bob Brock, who led his sixth season at Texas A&M. The Aggies finished with a record of 56–8.


1987 Texas A&M Aggies softball team
The Aggies were invited to the 1987 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, where they swept the Central Regional and then completed a run through the Women's College World Series to claim the NCAA Women's College World Series Championship for the second time. Texas A&M had won the 1983 Women's College World Series and the 1982 AIAW Women's College World Series, and did not participate in the 1982 NCAA Women's College World Series.


1987 Texas Longhorns baseball team
The 1987 Texas Longhorns baseball team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1987 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Longhorns played their home games at Disch–Falk Field. The team was coached by Cliff Gustafson in his 20th season at Texas.


1987 Texas Longhorns baseball team
The Longhorns reached the College World Series, finishing third with wins over Arkansas, Florida State and eventual runner-up Oklahoma State and a pair of losses to eventual champion Stanford.


1987 Texas Longhorns football team
The 1987 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Longhorns finished the regular season with a 6–5 record and defeated Pittsburgh in the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl.


1987 Texas Longhorns football team, NFL Draft
The following players were drafted into professional football following the season.


1987 Texas Rangers season
The Texas Rangers 1987 season involved the Rangers finishing sixth in the American League West with a record of 75 wins and 87 losses.


1987 Texas Rangers season, Regular season
Rubén Sierra set the Rangers' club record for extra base hits (69) in one season. He became the youngest player in the American League to get 100 RBIs in a season since Al Kaline in 1956.


1987 Texas Rangers 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 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team
The 1987 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University in the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their first season under head coach Spike Dykes, the Red Raiders compiled a 6–4–1 record (4–3–1 against SWC opponents), finished in fourth place in the conference, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 315 to 266. The team played its home games at Clifford B. and Audrey Jones Stadium in Lubbock, Texas.


1987 The Citadel Bulldogs football team
The 1987 The Citadel Bulldogs football team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the 1987 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Charlie Taaffe served as head coach for the first season. The Bulldogs played as members of the Southern Conference and played home games at Johnson Hagood Stadium.


1987 The Winston
The 1987 edition of The Winston was a stock car racing competition that took place on May 17, 1987. Held at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, the 135-lap race was an exhibition race in the 1987 NASCAR Winston Cup Series. Bill Elliott of Melling Racing won the pole and led the most laps (121), but it was Dale Earnhardt of Richard Childress Racing who won the race in a move that would be known in NASCAR history as the "pass in the grass."


1987 The Winston
This was Tim Richmond's second and final appearance in The Winston. Despite being eligible for the 1988 Winston, he opted not to participate due to a then-ongoing lawsuit against NASCAR after he was suspended for testing positive for banned substances early that year. He died of complications from AIDS on August 13, 1989.


1987 The Winston, Background
The Winston was open to race winners from last season through the 1987 Winston 500 at Talladega Superspeedway, including the 1986 Atlanta Invitational. Because the field did not meet the minimum requirement of 19 cars, the remaining spots were awarded to the most recent winning drivers prior to the 1986 season.


1987 The Winston, Race summary, Segment 1
Bill Elliott won the pole with a track record of 170.827 mph (274.919 km/h). Buddy Baker made the starting grid by winning the Winston Open. Cale Yarborough served as the onboard camera car throughout the race. On the first lap, Dale Earnhardt and Geoff Bodine got loose and tangled with each other, with Earnhardt slightly hitting the turn three wall and both cars losing several positions in the process. Earnhardt eventually inched his way towards the top-five throughout the race. On lap 62, Neil Bonnett and Richard Petty collided in turn three, bringing out the first caution and ending their chances of finishing the race. Segment 1 ended on lap 76 with Elliott in first place.


1987 The Winston, Race summary, Segment 2
Baker retired on lap 95 due to a transmission failure while Harry Gant suffered engine problems on lap 121. Segment 2 ended on lap 126, with Elliott once again on the top spot.


1987 The Winston, Race summary, Segment 3
As Segment 3 began, Bodine attempted to pass in front of Elliott, but both cars tangled with Bodine spinning while Earnhardt took over the lead before the caution came out. With eight laps to go, Elliott closed in on Earnhardt and tapped him from behind. Earnhardt was sent to the infield grass, but he quickly recovered to maintain the lead in what has become known as the "pass in the grass". Both cars once again traded paint side-by-side, but the contact cut Elliott's left rear tire, forcing him to pit and go a lap down while Terry Labonte charged forward to challenge Earnhardt. Eventually, Earnhardt beat Labonte and Tim Richmond to win The Winston and earn $200,000.


1987 The Winston, Race summary, Segment 3
Following the race, a frustrated Elliott bumped Earnhardt before all cars returned to pit road and Earnhardt entered victory lane.


1987 The Winston, Aftermath
NASCAR fined Earnhardt and Elliott $10,000 each for aggressive driving, with $7,500 being returned over the next seven weeks for good behavior. Geoff Bodine was fined $5,000 with $4,000 being returned for the next seven weeks for good behavior. Elliott and Earnhardt later made up, with Elliott issuing a public apology and accepting the penalty. On May 27, 1987, a fan sent NASCAR President Bill France Jr. a letter threatening to kill Earnhardt at Pocono, Watkins Glen, or Dover. NASCAR immediately handed over the letter to the FBI, who provided security for Earnhardt on all three tracks. The investigation was closed after the races on the three tracks finished with no incident.


1987 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship
The 1987 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the 97th staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887. The championship began on 27 September 1987 and ended on 1 November 1987.


1987 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship
Borris-Ileigh were the defending champions, however, they failed to qualify after being defeated by Lorrha in the North Tipperary Championship.


1987 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship
On 1 November 1987, Cappawhite won the championship after a 1-17 to 2-13 defeat of Loughmore-Castleiney in the final at Semple Stadium. It remains their only championship title.


1987 Tirreno–Adriatico
The 1987 Tirreno–Adriatico was the 22nd edition of the Tirreno–Adriatico cycle race and was held from 12 March to 18 March 1987. The race started in Latina and finished in San Benedetto del Tronto. The race was won by Rolf Sørensen of the Remac–Fanini team.


1987 Tokyo Indoor
The 1987 Tokyo Indoor also known as "Seiko Super Tennis" was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan that was part of the 1987 Nabisco Grand Prix. The tournament was held from 20 October through 24 October 1987. It was a major tournament of the Grand Prix tennis circuit and  matches were the best of three sets. Stefan Edberg won the singles title.


1987 Tokyo Indoor, Finals, Doubles
Broderick Dyke /  Tom Nijssen defeated  Sammy Giammalva, Jr. /  Jim Grabb 6–3, 6–2


1987 Tokyo Indoor – Doubles
Mike De Palmer and Gary Donnelly were the defending champions, but Donnelly did not participate this year. De Palmer partnered Paul Annacone, losing in the quarterfinals.


1987 Tokyo Indoor – Doubles
Broderick Dyke and Tom Nijssen won the title, defeating Sammy Giammalva, Jr. and Jim Grabb 6–3, 6–2 in the final.


1987 Tokyo Indoor – Singles
Boris Becker was the defending champion, but he retired from his quarterfinals match this year.


1987 Tokyo Indoor – Singles
Stefan Edberg won the tournament, beating Ivan Lendl in the final, 6–7, 6–4, 6–4.


1987 Tokyo Masters
The 1987 British Caledonian Tokyo Masters was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place in September 1987 in Tokyo, Japan. This was the first and so far only professional snooker tournament to be held in Japan.


1987 Tokyo Masters
Dennis Taylor won the tournament by defeating Terry Griffiths 6–3 in the final.


1987 Toledo Rockets football team
The 1987 Toledo Rockets football team was an American football team that represented the University of Toledo in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their sixth season under head coach Dan Simrell, the Rockets compiled a 3–7–1 record (3–4–1 against MAC opponents), finished in a tie for sixth place in the MAC, and were outscored by all opponents by a combined total of 245 to 165.


1987 Toledo Rockets football team
The team's statistical leaders included Bill Bergan with 908 passing yards, David Rohrs with 681 rushing yards, and Eric Hutchinson with 431 receiving yards.


1987 Tongan general election
General elections were held in Tonga on 18 and 19 February 1987 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Tonga. Nine nobles and nine people's representatives were elected. Five of the latter favoured democratic reform.


1987 Tongan general election, Results
Six of the nine People's Representatives were new to the Legislative Assembly, including Sione Matekihetuka, Laki Niu and ʻAkilisi Pōhiva from the Tongatapu constituency.


1987 Tongatapu Inter Club Championship
The 1987 season of the Tongatapu Inter Club Championship was the 14th season of top flight association football competition in Tonga. Ngeleʻia FC won the championship for the sixth time, their sixth title in a then-record of 7 consecutive championships.


1987 Tongatapu Inter Club Championship
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1987 Torneo Descentralizado
The 1987 Torneo Descentralizado, the top tier of Peruvian football (soccer), was played by 30 teams. The season started in 1987 and ended in early 1988. The national champion was Universitario .


1987 Torneo Descentralizado
The national championship was divided into two tournaments, the Regional Tournament and the Descentralized Tournament. The winners of each tournament faced off in the final and received the berths for the Copa Libertadores 1988. The Regional Tournament divided the teams into four groups; Metropolitan, North, Central, and South. Each group had its teams qualify for the Regional Finals, the Descentralized Tournament and the Intermediary Division. The Regional Finals determined the Regional Champion. The Descentralized Tournament divided the teams in three groups and had its teams qualify for the Descentralized Liguilla which decided the Descentralized Champion. The Intermediary Division was a promotion/relegation tournament between first and second division teams.


1987 Torneo Godó
The 1987 Torneo Godó was a men's professional tennis tournament that took place on outdoor clay courts at the Real Club de Tenis Barcelona in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain that was part of the 1987 Grand Prix circuit. It was the 35th edition of the tournament and took place from 21 September to 27 September 1987. Fifth-seeded Martín Jaite won the singles title.


1987 Torneo Godó, Finals, Singles
Martín Jaite defeated  Mats Wilander 7–6(7–5), 6–4, 4–6, 0–6, 6–4


1987 Torneo Godó, Finals, Doubles
Miloslav Mečíř /  Tomáš Šmíd defeated  Javier Frana /  Christian Miniussi 6–1, 6–2


1987 Torneo di Viareggio
The 1987 winners of the Torneo di Viareggio (in English, the Viareggio Tournament, officially the Viareggio Cup World Football Tournament Coppa Carnevale), the annual youth football tournament held in Viareggio, Tuscany, are listed below.


1987 Torneo di Viareggio, Format
The 16 teams are seeded in 4 groups. Each team from a group meets the others in a single tie. The winner of each group progress to the final knockout stage.


1987 Toronto Argonauts season
The 1987 Toronto Argonauts finished in second place in the East Division with an 11–6–1 record. They appeared in the Grey Cup game.


1987 Toronto Blue Jays season
The 1987 Toronto Blue Jays season was the franchise's 11th season of Major League Baseball. It resulted in the Blue Jays finishing second in the American League East with a record of 96 wins and 66 losses. They had been in first place by 3½ games over the Detroit Tigers with a week left to play, but they dropped their next seven games in a row, capped off by a sweep at the hands of Detroit at Tiger Stadium on the last weekend of the season, and lost the division by two games.


1987 Toronto Blue Jays 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 Toronto International Film Festival
The 12th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 10 and September 19, 1987. I've Heard the Mermaids Singing by Patricia Rozema was selected as the opening film.


1987 Toronto International Film Festival
The Princess Bride by Rob Reiner won the People's Choice Award at the festival. André the Giant, one of the stars of the film sat on especially constructed girth for him, during the premiere  of the film at the festival.


1987 Tour de France
The 1987 Tour de France was the 74th edition of the Tour de France, taking place from 1 to 26 July. It consisted of 25 stages over 4,231 km (2,629 mi). It was the closest three-way finish in the Tour until the 2007 Tour de France, among the closest overall races in Tour history and the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th place riders each wore the Yellow jersey at some point during the race. It was won by Stephen Roche, the first and so far only Irishman to do so.


1987 Tour de France
The winner of the 1986 Tour de France, Greg LeMond was unable to defend his title following a shooting accident in April.


1987 Tour de France
Following Stage 1, Poland's Lech Piasecki became the first rider from the Eastern Bloc to lead the Tour de France. He was one of eight different men to wear yellow, a new record for the Tour.


1987 Tour de France, Teams
The number of cyclists in one team was reduced from 10 to 9, to allow more teams in the race. The 1987 Tour started with 207 cyclists, divided into 23 teams. Of these, 62 were riding the Tour de France for the first time. The average age of riders in the race was 27.05 years, ranging from the 20-year-old Jean-Claude Colotti (RMO–Cycles Méral–Mavic) to the 36-year-old Gerrie Knetemann (PDM–Concorde). The Caja Rural–Orbea cyclists had the youngest average age while the riders on Del Tongo had the oldest.


1987 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
Shortly before the Tour, on 20 April 1987, the defending champion Greg LeMond was accidentally shot by his brother-in-law while hunting turkeys. He was unable to start the 1987 Tour, and because Bernard Hinault (second placed in 1986, and the only rider to seriously challenge LeMond in 1986) had retired, the Tour started without a clear favourite.


1987 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
Only one previous winner started in the 1987 Tour: Laurent Fignon, winner in 1983 and 1984. Since then, Fignon had struggled with his form, but in the first months of 1987, Fignon had finally shown some good results. LeMond's place as leader of the Toshiba team was now taken by Jean-François Bernard. He had finished in twelfth place in the previous year as helper of LeMond and Hinault, so more was expected from him now. The Carrera team was led by Stephen Roche. For Roche, the months before the 1987 Tour had gone well, having won the 1987 Giro d'Italia. In the recent Tours, Pedro Delgado had shown improving results, and he had some talented helpers in his PDM team, so he was also considered a contender.


1987 Tour de France, Route and stages
In 1985, it was announced that the 1987 Tour would start in West-Berlin, to celebrate the 750th anniversary of the city's founding. The 1987 Tour de France started on 1 July, and had one rest day, in Avignon. There were 25 stages (and a prologue), more than ever before. The highest point of elevation in the race was 2,642 m (8,668 ft) at the summit of the Col du Galibier mountain pass on stage 21.


1987 Tour de France, Race overview
The prologue was won by specialist Jelle Nijdam, and none of the favourites lost much time. The second place in the prologue was for Polish cyclist Lech Piasecki, and when he was part of a break-away in the first stage that won a few seconds, he became the new leader in the general classification, the first time that an Eastern-European cyclist lead the Tour de France. Piasecki kept his lead in the team time trial of stage 2, but lost it in the third stage when a break-away gained several minutes. Erich Maechler became the new leader. Maechler kept the lead for several stages. After stage nine, Maechler was still leading. The mass-start stages were dominated by break-aways of cyclists who were not considered relevant for the final victory; sixth-placed Charly Mottet was the only cyclist in the top 15 who had real chances of finishing high.


1987 Tour de France, Race overview
The tenth stage was an individual time trial, and the first real test for the favourites. It was won by Stephen Roche, with Mottet in second place; Mottet became the new leader of the general classification. After a successful escape in the eleventh stage, Martial Gayant became the new leader. The twelfth stage ended in a bunch sprint that did not change the general classification. The Tour arrived in the Pyrenees in the thirteenth stage. Non -climbers, such as Gayant lost more than fifteen minutes, and so the non-climbers were removed from the top positions of the general classification; the new top three was Mottet – Bernard – Roche, all serious contenders for the final victory.


1987 Tour de France, Race overview
The eighteenth stage was an individual time trial, with a finish on the Mont Ventoux. It was won with a great margin by Jean-François Bernard, who became the new leader of the general classification, and the new hope of the French cycling fans. Bernard was a good climber and a good time-trialist, and had the support of a good team, so he could be able to stay leader until the end of the race. But already in the next stage, Bernard lost considerable time.


1987 Tour de France, Race overview
He had a flat tire just before the top of a climb, and lost contact with the other riders while he had to wait for repairs, and had to spend energy to get back. His rivals Mottet and Roche had made a plan to attack in the feed zone, where cyclists could get their lunch. Mottet and Roche had packed extra food at the start of the stage, and attacked while Bernard was at the back of the peloton. Bernard chased them, but was not able to get back to them, and lost four minutes in that stage, which made Roche the new leader, closely followed by Mottet and Delgado.


1987 Tour de France, Race overview
In the twentieth stage, the riders went through the Alps, to finish on the Alpe d'Huez. Roche finished in fifteenth place, and lost the lead to Delgado. The pivotal stage was stage 21. In the first part of this stage, the Colombian cyclists of the "Cafe de Colombia" team (including Luis Herrera and Fabio Parra, fifth and sixth in the general classification) kept a high pace, and many cyclists were dropped.


1987 Tour de France, Race overview
Roche, Delgado and Mottet decided to work together to get rid of the Colombian cyclists on the descent of the Galibier, out of fear that Herrera and Parra would leave them behind in the next climbs. Their plan worked, but Delgado's teammates were also dropped. Roche saw this opportunity and escaped, climbing the Madeleine in a small breakaway group. Somewhat later, Delgado's teammates got back to Delgado, and together they chased Roche, and caught him just before the climb of La Plagne. Roche then anticipated that Delgado would keep attacking on the climb.


1987 Tour de France, Race overview
Knowing Delgado was the better climber, Roche decided he would not follow Delgado's attack. Instead, he let Delgado get away until the margin was one minute, giving Delgado the impression that he could safely save energy for the next stages, and at the last part of the stage gave it everything he had to reduce the margin. Roche followed that tactic, and confused not only Delgado, but also the commentators and the Tour organisation. Roche finished a few seconds behind Delgado, and after the finish he collapsed and was given an oxygen mask in an ambulance.


1987 Tour de France, Race overview
Roche was only 39 seconds behind Delgado in the general classification. Roche could still win the Tour, but it depended on if he could recover in time for the 22nd stage. That stage included the last serious climb of the Tour, so Delgado had his final opportunity to gain time on Roche, and he attacked. However, Roche was able to come back to Delgado twice. Then, Roche attacked, and Delgado could not keep up. Roche won back 18 seconds on Delgado, so he had reduced his margin to 21 seconds.


1987 Tour de France, Race overview
Being a talented time-trialist, he knew that he could easily make up for it on the penultimate stage (an individual time trial at Dijon). Indeed, Roche won almost a minute on Delgado, and this was enough to secure the overall win. This time trial was won by Jean-François Bernard finished the Tour in third place after losing four minutes after the flat tire in the nineteenth stage.


1987 Tour de France, Race overview, Doping
Bontempi was originally declared winner of the 7th stage, but a few days later, his doping test came back positive for testosterone. Bontempi was set back to the last place of the stage, was penalised with 10 minutes in the general classification, and received a provisional suspension of one month.


1987 Tour de France, Race overview, Doping
One day later, it became public that Dietrich Thurau had tested positive after the eighth stage. At that point, Thurau had already left the race. He was set back to the last place of that stage, and also received a provisional suspension of one month.


1987 Tour de France, Race overview, Doping
The third rider to test positive was Silvano Contini, after the thirteenth stage. He received the same penalty.


1987 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
There were several classifications in the 1987 Tour de France, six of them awarding jerseys to their leaders. The most important was the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. The cyclist with the least accumulated time was the race leader, identified by the yellow jersey; the winner of this classification is considered the winner of the Tour.


1987 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
Additionally, there was a points classification, where cyclists were given points for finishing among the best in a stage finish, or in intermediate sprints. The cyclist with the most points lead the classification, and was identified with a green jersey.


1987 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
There was also a mountains classification. The organisation had categorised some climbs as either hors catégorie, first, second, third, or fourth-category; points for this classification were won by the first cyclists that reached the top of these climbs first, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs. The cyclist with the most points lead the classification, and wore a white jersey with red polka dots.


1987 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
There was also a combination classification. This classification was calculated as a combination of the other classifications, its leader wore the combination jersey.


1987 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
Another classification was the intermediate sprints classification. This classification had similar rules as the points classification, but only points were awarded on intermediate sprints. Its leader wore a red jersey.


1987 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
The sixth individual classification was the young rider classification. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders under 26 years were eligible, and the leader wore a white jersey. In 1987 the race organisers changed the rules for the young rider classification; from 1983 to 1986, this classification had been as a "debutant classification", open for cyclist that rode the Tour for the first time. In 1987, the organisers decided that the classification should be open to all cyclists less than 25 years of age at 1 January of the year.


1987 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
For the team classification, the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added; the leading team was the team with the lowest total time. The riders in the team that led this classification were identified by yellow caps. There was also a team points classification. Cyclists received points according to their finishing position on each stage, with the first rider receiving one point. The first three finishers of each team had their points combined, and the team with the fewest points led the classification. The riders of the team leading this classification wore green caps.


1987 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
In addition, there was a combativity award, in which a jury composed of journalists gave points after each mass-start stage to the cyclist they considered most combative. The split stages each had a combined winner. At the conclusion of the Tour, Régis Clère won the overall super-combativity award, also decided by journalists. The Souvenir Henri Desgrange was given in honour of Tour founder Henri Desgrange to the first rider to pass the summit of the Col du Galibier on stage 21. This prize was won by Pedro Muñoz Machín Rodríguez.


1987 Tour de France, Aftermath
After the Giro-Tour double victory, Roche would complete the Triple Crown of Cycling by winning the 1987 road race world championship.


1987 Tour de France, Aftermath
Jeff Pierce winning the final stage on the Champs-Élysées is thought to have impressed the presence of United States cycling in the European circuit. Cycling News's Pat Malach wrote that Pierce's win was his defining win for the remainder of his career.


1987 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 12
The 1987 Tour de France was the 74th edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in West Berlin with a prologue individual time trial on 1 July and Stage 12 occurred on 12 July with a flat stage to Bordeaux. The race finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 26 July.


1987 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 12, Prologue
1 July 1987 — West Berlin, 6.1 km (3.8 mi) (individual time trial)


1987 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 12, Stage 1
2 July 1987 — West Berlin to West Berlin, 105.5 km (65.6 mi)


1987 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 12, Stage 2
2 July 1987 — West Berlin to West Berlin, 40.5 km (25.2 mi) (team time trial)


1987 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 12, Stage 3
4 July 1987 — Karlsruhe to Stuttgart, 219 km (136 mi)


1987 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 12, Stage 4
5 July 1987 — Stuttgart to Pforzheim, 79 km (49 mi)


1987 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 12, Stage 5
5 July 1987 — Pforzheim to Strasbourg, 112 km (70 mi)


1987 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 12, Stage 6
6 July 1987 — Strasbourg to Épinal, 169 km (105 mi)


1987 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 12, Stage 7
7 July 1987 — Épinal to Troyes, 211 km (131 mi)


1987 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 12, Stage 8
8 July 1987 — Troyes to Épinay-sous-Sénart, 205.5 km (127.7 mi)


1987 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 12, Stage 9
9 July 1987 — Orléans to Renazé, 260 km (160 mi)


1987 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 12, Stage 10
10 July 1987 — Saumur to Futuroscope, 87.5 km (54.4 mi) (individual time trial)


1987 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 12, Stage 11
11 July 1987 — Poitiers to Chaumeil, 255 km (158 mi)


1987 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 12, Stage 12
12 July 1987 — Brive to Bordeaux, 228 km (142 mi)


1987 Tour de France, Stage 13 to Stage 25
The 1987 Tour de France was the 74th edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in West Berlin with a prologue individual time trial on 1 July and Stage 13 occurred on 13 July with a mountain stage from Bayonne. The race finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 26 July.


1987 Tour de France, Stage 13 to Stage 25, Stage 13
13 July 1987 — Bayonne to Pau, 219 km (136.1 mi)


1987 Tour de France, Stage 13 to Stage 25, Stage 14
14 July 1987 — Pau to Luz Ardiden, 166 km (103.1 mi)


1987 Tour de France, Stage 13 to Stage 25, Stage 15
15 July 1987 — Tarbes to Blagnac, 164 km (101.9 mi)


1987 Tour de France, Stage 13 to Stage 25, Stage 16
16 July 1987 — Blagnac to Millau, 216.5 km (134.5 mi)


1987 Tour de France, Stage 13 to Stage 25, Stage 17
17 July 1987 — Millau to Avignon, 239 km (149 mi)


1987 Tour de France, Stage 13 to Stage 25, Stage 18
19 July 1987 — Carpentras to Mont Ventoux, 36.5 km (22.7 mi) (individual time trial)


1987 Tour de France, Stage 13 to Stage 25, Stage 19
20 July 1987 — Valréas to Villard-de-Lans, 185 km (115 mi)


1987 Tour de France, Stage 13 to Stage 25, Stage 20
21 July 1987 — Villard-de-Lans to Alpe d'Huez, 201 km (125 mi)


1987 Tour de France, Stage 13 to Stage 25, Stage 21
22 July 1987 — Le Bourg-d'Oisans to La Plagne, 185.5 km (115.3 mi)


1987 Tour de France, Stage 13 to Stage 25, Stage 22
23 July 1987 — La Plagne to Morzine, 186 km (116 mi)


1987 Tour de France, Stage 13 to Stage 25, Stage 23
24 July 1987 — Saint-Julien-en-Genevois to Dijon, 224.5 km (139.5 mi)


1987 Tour de France, Stage 13 to Stage 25, Stage 24
25 July 1987 — Dijon to Dijon, 38 km (24 mi) (individual time trial)


1987 Tour de France, Stage 13 to Stage 25, Stage 25
26 July 1987 — Créteil to Paris Champs-Élysées, 192 km (119 mi)


1987 Tour de Romandie
The 1987 Tour de Romandie was the 41st edition of the Tour de Romandie cycle race and was held from 5 May to 10 May 1987. The race started in Bernex and finished in Chandolin. The race was won by Stephen Roche of the Carrera team.


1987 Tour de Suisse
The 1987 Tour de Suisse was the 51st edition of the Tour de Suisse cycle race and was held from 16 June to 25 June 1987. The race started in Affoltern am Albis and finished in Zürich. The race was won by Andrew Hampsten of the 7-Eleven team.


1987 Tour de Suisse, Teams
In total, fourteen teams of up to nine riders, plus eight independent riders started the race.


1987 Tour du Haut Var
The 1987 Tour du Haut Var was the 19th edition of the Tour du Haut Var cycle race and was held on 20–21 February 1987. The race started in Fréjus and finished in Seillans. The race was won by Rolf Gölz.


1987 Tour of Britain
The 1987 Tour of Britain was the inaugural edition of the Kellogg's Tour of Britain cycle race and was held from 12 August to 16 August 1987. The race started in Edinburgh and finished in London. The race was won by Joey McLoughlin of the ANC–Halfords team.


1987 Tour of Flanders
The 71st running of the Tour of Flanders cycling race was held on 5 April 1987. It was won by Claude Criquielion after a 10 km solo breakaway. 88 of 233 starters finished the race.


1987 Tour of Flanders, Race report
Danish rider Jesper Skibby was in the early breakaway, before going solo. On the slippery cobbles of the Koppenberg, he fell onto the road banking and was subsequently run over by an official's car. After the Koppenberg, a group of ten riders, containing most favourites, broke clear. Claude Criquielion broke away from the elite group just after the Bosberg, the last climb of the day,  and powered on to the finish. Sean Kelly won the sprint for second place before Eric Vanderaerden. Criquielion was the first French-speaking Belgian rider to win the Tour of Flanders and the only one until Philippe Gilbert won the 2017 Tour of Flanders.


1987 Tour of Flanders, Route
The race started in Sint-Niklaas and finished in Meerbeke (Ninove) – totaling 275 km. The course featured 13 categorized climbs:


1987 Tour of the Basque Country
The 1987 Tour of the Basque Country was the 27th edition of the Tour of the Basque Country cycle race and was held from 6 April to 10 April 1987. The race started in Zarautz and finished in Arantzazu. The race was won by Sean Kelly of the Kas team.


1987 Tournament Players Championship
The 1987 Tournament Players Championship was a golf tournament in Florida on the PGA Tour, held March 26–29 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, southeast of Jacksonville. It was the fourteenth Tournament Players Championship.


1987 Tournament Players Championship
Sandy Lyle of Scotland defeated Jeff Sluman on the third hole of a sudden-death playoff to become the first international player to win the title. Rains had softened the course and led to favorable scoring; the 36-hole cut of 143 (−1) was the lowest until 1993.


1987 Tournament Players Championship
At the second playoff hole, the par-3 17th "Island Green," an unruly spectator jumped into the water as Sluman was addressing his six-foot (1.8 m) birdie putt for the win. After order was restored, he missed and they went to third extra hole at 18. Both found the fairway with their tee shots but both approaches went deep. Sluman couldn't save par from twelve feet (3.7 m) while Lyle made his from seven feet (2.1 m) to end it.


1987 Tournament Players Championship
This was the second playoff at the Tournament Players Championship, but the first at the Stadium Course. This year also marked the championship's first seven-figure purse and its last with "Tournament" in the title.


1987 Tournament Players Championship
Defending champion John Mahaffey finished ten strokes back, in a tie for 32nd place.


1987 Tournament Players Championship, Venue
This was the sixth Tournament Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course and it remained at 6,857 yards (6,270 m).


1987 Tournament Players Championship, Eligibility requirements
1. Top 126 players, if PGA Tour members, from Final 1986 Official Money List:


1987 Tournament Players Championship, Eligibility requirements
Greg Norman, Bob Tway, Payne Stewart,  Andy Bean, Dan Pohl, Hal Sutton, Tom Kite, Ben Crenshaw, Raymond Floyd, Bernhard Langer, John Mahaffey, Calvin Peete, Fuzzy Zoeller, Joey Sindelar, Jim Thorpe, Ken Green, Larry Mize, Doug Tewell, Corey Pavin, Tom Watson, Mike Hulbert, Don Pooley, Lanny Wadkins, Kenny Knox, Mark Wiebe, John Cook, Donnie Hammond, Paul Azinger, Mark O'Meara, Tim Simpson, Curtis Strange, Bobby Wadkins, Jack Nicklaus, Nick Price, Scott Hoch, Tom Purtzer, Chip Beck, Roger Maltbie, Scott Simpson, Gene Sauers, Phil Blackmar, Clarence Rose, Jay Haas, David Frost, Bruce Lietzke, Jodie Mudd, Bob Murphy, Gary Koch, Steve Pate, Willie Wood, Craig Stadler, Dan Forsman, D. A. Weibring, Ronnie Black, Howard Twitty, Mark Calcavecchia, Wayne Levi, Jeff Sluman, Rick Fehr, J. C. Snead, Sandy Lyle, Pat McGowan, Mike Reid, Danny Edwards, Ernie Gonzalez, Larry Nelson, Dave Barr, David Edwards, Bill Glasson, Hubert Green, Mark Hayes, Brian Claar, Fred Couples, Davis Love III, Peter Jacobsen, Lennie Clements, Mark McCumber, Jim Colbert, Mike Donald, Morris Hatalsky, Bob Gilder, Lon Hinkle, Bobby Clampett, David Graham, Brett Upper, Brad Faxon, Buddy Gardner, Russ Cochran, Tom Byrum, Blaine McCallister, Bobby Cole, Charlie Bolling, TC Chen, Lee Trevino, Bob Lohr, Jack Renner, Dan Halldorson, Leonard Thompson, Dave Rummells, George Archer, Barry Jaeckel, Larry Rinker, Jim Gallagher Jr., Curt Byrum, Dick Mast, Ken Brown, Mark Lye, George Burns, David Ogrin, Chris Perry, Fred Wadsworth, Andy Dillard, Bob Eastwood, Johnny Miller, Ed Fiori, Andrew Magee, Gary Hallberg, Mark Pfeil, Jay Delsing, John Adams, Tom Sieckmann, Antonio Cerda, Jr.


1987 Tournament Players Championship, Eligibility requirements
3. Any foreign player meeting the requirements of a designated player, whether or not he is a PGA Tour member


1987 Tournament Players Championship, Eligibility requirements
4. Winners in the last 10 calendar years of the Tournament Players Championship, PGA Championship, U.S. Open, Masters Tournament and World Series of Golf


1987 Tournament Players Championship, Eligibility requirements
5. The leader in Senior PGA Tour official earnings of 1986


1987 Tournament Players Championship, Eligibility requirements
6. The three players, not otherwise eligible, designated by the TPC Committee as "special selections"


1987 Tournament Players Championship, Eligibility requirements
7. To complete a field of 144 players, those players in order, not otherwise eligible, from the 1987 Official Money List, as of the completion of the USF&G Classic, March 22, 1987


1987 Tournament Players Championship, Eligibility requirements
Isao Aoki, Keith Clearwater, Steve Elkington, Sam Randolph, Brad Fabel, Bill Sander, Tsuneyuki Nakajima, Steve Jones, Rick Dalpos, Rocco Mediate, Jay Don Blake, John Inman, Mark Brooks, Denis Watson, Richard Zokol, Mike Nicolette


1987 Tournament Players Championship, Round summaries, Final round
On the 72nd hole, Lyle and Sluman both made birdie putts to finish at 274 (−14) and advanced to the playoff.


1987 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election
Elections to Trafford Council were held on 7 May 1987. One third of the council was up for election, with each successful candidate to serve a four-year term of office, expiring in 1991. The council remained under no overall control.


1987 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election
After the election, the composition of the council was as follows:


1987 Trans America Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament
The 1987 Trans America Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament was held at J. I. Clements Stadium on the campus of Georgia Southern in Statesboro, Georgia from April 30 to May 2. This was the ninth tournament championship held by the Trans America Athletic Conference, in its ninth year of existence. Georgia Southern won their third tournament championship and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 1987 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


1987 Trans America Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding
The top two finishers from each division by conference winning percentage qualified for the tournament, with the top seed from one division playing the second seed from the opposite in the first round.


1987 Trans America Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team
The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. No MVP was named until 1985.


1987 Trans America Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Valuable Player
Brett Hendley was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Hendley was a first baseman for Georgia Southern.


1987 Trans-Am Series
The 1987 Trans-Am Series was the 22nd running of the Sports Car Club of America's premier series. Merkur nearly swept the season, with Porsche winning at Brainerd.


1987 Transamerica Open
The 1987 Transamerica Open, also known as the Pacific Coast Championships, was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, California in the United States. The event was part of the 1987 Nabisco Grand Prix circuit. It was the 97th edition of the tournament and was held from September 28 through October 4, 1987. Unseeded Peter Lundgren won the singles title.


1987 Transamerica Open, Finals, Doubles
Jim Grabb /  John McEnroe defeated  Glenn Layendecker /  Todd Witsken 6–2, 0–6, 6–4


1987 Transkei coup d'état
On 30 November 1987, the then 32-year-old Major General Bantu Holomisa, the Chief of the Transkei Defence Force, led a bloodless coup d'état against the government of Transkei led by Prime Minister Stella Sigcau. He suspended the civilian constitution and refused South Africa's repeated demands for a return to civilian rule on the grounds that a civilian government would be a puppet controlled by Pretoria.


1987 Transkei coup d'état
A counter-coup staged in 1990 failed, and Holomisa's government stayed in power until the reunification of Transkei within South Africa.


1987 Transkei coup d'état
The Military Rule Medal was instituted to commemorate the 1987 coup d'état. While the medal is known to have been instituted and awarded, no warrant has yet been traced.


1987 Troy State Trojans football team
The 1987 Troy State Trojans football team represented Troy State University during the 1987 NCAA Division II football season, and completed the 67th season of Trojans football. The Trojans played their home games in at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Troy, Alabama. The 1987 team came off a 10–3 record from the previous season. The 1987 team was led by coach Rick Rhoades. The team finished the regular season with a 9–1–1 record and made the NCAA Division II playoffs. The Trojans defeated the Portland State Vikings 31–17 in the National Championship Game en route to the program's second NCAA Division II Football Championship and third overall national championship.


1987 Truro by-election
The Truro by-election, 1987, was caused by the death of David Penhaligon, the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Truro on 22 December 1986 in a car crash near the city. The election was held on 12 March 1987. The constituency was renamed Truro and St Austell in 1997.


1987 Truro by-election
The candidate succeeding Penhaligon was his then research assistant on the economy, Matthew Taylor, standing with the backing of the Social Democratic Party as part of the SDP-Liberal Alliance. The Conservative candidate was Nick St Aubyn who would go on to become member for Guildford. The Labour Party and Green Party put forward candidates. The only other candidate was Helen Anscomb, who represented Death off Road: Freight on Rail. Anscomb had previously taken part in four other by-elections of the 49th Parliament and on this occasion focused her campaign on the issue of road safety as Penhaligon had been killed in a car accident.


1987 Truro by-election
After the election, Anscomb lodged an election petition against the return of Taylor on the grounds that he had appeared on Channel Four News and BBC Newsnight without the other candidates, in breach of election law. The petition was stayed and eventually withdrawn due to her ill-health.


1987 Truro by-election
This election is notable for being the last by-election during that term of parliament, as a general election (which saw the Tories achieve a third successive win) was called three months later.


1987 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team
The 1987 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team represented the University of Tulsa during the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their first and only year under head coach George Henshaw, the Golden Hurricane compiled a 3–8 record. The team's statistical leaders included quarterback T. J. Rubley with 2,058 passing yards, Derrick Ellison with 593 rushing yards, and Dan Bitson with 608 receiving yards.


1987 Tunisian coup d'état
The 1987 Tunisian coup d'état involved the bloodless ousting of the aging President of Tunisia Habib Bourguiba on 7 November 1987, and his replacement as President by his recently appointed Prime Minister, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. The action was justified by reference to Bourguiba's failing health and Article 57 of the country's constitution. Reports later surfaced to indicate that the Italian intelligence services had been involved in planning it.


1987 Tunisian coup d'état
Sources sometimes identify the 1987 coup as the "Révolution de jasmin" (Jasmin Revolution) as the jasmine flower is considered a symbol of Tunisia. However, more recent sources also use exactly the same term to identify the 2011 Tunisian Revolution.


1987 Tunisian coup d'état, Events
During the night of 6 November 1987 a group of seven doctors signed a medical report attesting to the mental incapacity of Bourguiba. The political journalist Mezri Haddad summarised the report as follows:


1987 Tunisian coup d'état, Events
Officially aged 84, Bourguiba fell asleep while receiving a foreign visitor. Influenced by those who coveted the presidency, the next day he sacked a minister just one day after appointing him. He agreed to his prime minister's cabinet reshuffle only to retract his agreement a few hours later. Worst of all, he insisted on overturning a court verdict on Rached Ghannouchi whom he viewed as an extremist   ("I want fifty heads  ... I want thirty heads  ... I want Ghannouchi").


1987 Tunisian coup d'état, Events
At the same time, Bourguiba demanded new trials for 15 suspected Islamists, and that all but three of them be hanged by the following weekend. When this order became known, a number of Tunisian political leaders, including longtime supporters of Bourguiba, feared that Bourguiba was no longer acting or thinking rationally. Later, one human rights activist said that if the orders had been carried out, it would have triggered a civil war.


1987 Tunisian coup d'état, Events
In justification of the coup, Prime Minister Ben Ali invoked Article 57 of the constitution, as he assumed power. He rapidly emerged, therefore, not merely as the constitutional president, but also as the commander in chief of the army. The journalists Nicolas Beau and Jean-Pierre Tuquoi summarise the circumstances under which the necessary medical opinion had been obtained:


1987 Tunisian coup d'état, Events
Seven doctors, including two military doctors, were called together in the middle of the night, not to the sickbed  of Bourguiba, but to the Interior Ministry. One of the seven was the president's doctor at the time, the cardiologist and military general Mohamed Gueddiche. At the ministry they found Ben Ali who told them to formulate a written opinion on the incapacity of the president. One of the doctors began to protest that he had not seen Bourguiba for two years. "That does not matter. Sign! ", interjected  General Ben Ali.


1987 Tunisian coup d'état, Events
The next day the new president addressed the nation on Radio Tunis. He paid tribute to the huge sacrifices that his predecessor had made, supported by brave men, in his service to the liberation and development of Tunisia. At the same time Ben Ali took the opportunity to make a declaration: "In the times in which we live it is not longer enough to put up either with presidencies for life or with automatic succession for the head of state, under a system from which the people are excluded. Our people deserve a modern politics, based on a genuinely multi-party system incorporating a plurality of mass organisations." The further justification was later given that fundamentalist movements were preparing a coup of their own, and had prepared a list of assassination targets in connection with their plans.


1987 Tunisian coup d'état, Intelligence head's revelations and prime ministerial denials
Fulvio Martini, a former head of the Italian Intelligence Service, gave an interview to the newspaper la Repubblica on 11 October 1997 in which he asserted that Italian Intelligence had played an important role in the removal of Bourgiba. "Everything began with the visit of the Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi to Algeria in 1984", he explained. "The Algerians were nervous about growing instability in Tunisia and were ready to intervene" because of the risks the situation presented to their own strategic interests.


1987 Tunisian coup d'état, Intelligence head's revelations and prime ministerial denials
This meant that the Algerian army was ready to invade the part of Tunisia crossed by the natural-gas pipeline transporting Algerian gas to Sicily. Martini continued: "In 1985 Prime Minister Craxi asked me to go to Algeria and establish contact with the security services there ... in order to avert any sudden move by Algeria. That was the start of a lengthy foreign policy operation in which the security services played a central role. In the end the parties agreed that General Ben Ali would be better able to guarantee the stability of Tunisia than Bourguiba."


1987 Tunisian coup d'état, Intelligence head's revelations and prime ministerial denials
Martini added:  "We suggested this solution to the Algerians and they discussed it with the Libyans. I went to talk to the French [...but...] the French security chief at that time, René Imbot reacted with arrogance, and simply stated that we Italians should not become involved, because Tunisia was part of France's imperial legacy".


1987 Tunisian coup d'état, Intelligence head's revelations and prime ministerial denials
The priority was to organise a coup as invisible as possible, and this gave rise to the idea of a "medical coup". Italy would guarantee to support a Ben Ali takeover, and this choice was also approved by Libya and Algeria. "It is true that Italy replaced Bourguiba with Ben Ali" Martini agreed after 10 October 1999 when la Repubblica (the newspaper) referred to a report that Martini had revealed before a parliamentary commission on 6 October 1999. On the other hand, Prime Minister Craxi disputed any involvement by the Italian Security Services.


1987 Tunisian coup d'état, Intelligence head's revelations and prime ministerial denials
Also speaking on 10 October 1999 he addresses the French Press Agency office in Tunis:  "There was no Italian manoeuvring or interference in the events that carried President Ben Ali to power in 1987". The closeness of Craxi's own complicated and long standing relationship with the Tunisian political establishment led at one commentator to prefer his version of events to that of his intelligence chief. Craxi remained a close friend of Ben Ali, and died in Tunisia in 2000.


1987 Tunisian coup d'état, Aftermath
Ben Ali took control of the ruling Socialist Destourian Party, renamed it and transformed it into the Democratic Constitutional Rally. The promised elections took place in 1989 and were won by the new party. In principal Ben Ali followed similar policies to Bourgiba, positioning himself as the spiritual successor to his superannuated predecessor. He remained in power for 23 years, until 2011, when he was deposed in the Tunisian Revolution.


1987 Turkish constitutional referendum
A constitutional referendum was held in Turkey on 6 September 1987 to amend the "temporary article" 4 of the constitution, which had forbidden the leaders of banned parties (a total of 242 people) from taking part in politics for 10 years. The governing party ANAP agreed to the referendum after a compromise with the opposition parties regarding constitutional changes. ANAP campaigned for No, while most opposition parties campaigned for Yes vote. The changes were narrowly approved by 50.2% of voters, with a 93.36% turnout.


1987 Turkish general election
General elections were held in Turkey on 29 November 1987. This election is important for two events; the Military junta's restrictions on former politicians were lifted so they joined to the political scene again, whilst the Motherland Party retained its majority in the parliament by losing votes but gaining more seats, thanks to the electoral system of the country. Voter turnout was 93.3%.


1987 Turkish general election
The 1987 election saw the return of the religious oriented base of Necmettin Erbakan and the symbol names of the politics in the 1970s, Bülent Ecevit and Süleyman Demirel. Bülent Ecevit led DSP because CHP was closed down after the coup of 1980. Süleyman Demirel founded DYP to challenge the power of Turgut Özal on conservative liberal votes. The elections of 1987 were marked with harsh restrictions on televised publicity for the opposition parties. Different as 1983 there was no televised debate between the presidential candidates. Only one week before the elections political infomercials from the different parties were aired. The SHP gained the most benefit of the infomercials, as the SHP polled about 30% compared to the 18% before screening the infomercial.


1987 U.S. Clay Court Championships
The 1987 U.S. Clay Court Championships was a Grand Prix men's tennis tournament held in Indianapolis, Indiana in the United States. It was the 19th edition of the tournament held in the open era and the last in Indianapolis. First-seeded Mats Wilander won the singles title.


1987 U.S. Clay Court Championships
The tournament was moved to a summer date (July 13–19) after the previous year's spring event failed to attract top male players. The revised date clashed with the scheduled Virginia Slims of Newport so there was no women's event in 1987.


1987 U.S. Clay Court Championships, Finals, Doubles
Laurie Warder /  Blaine Willenborg defeated  Joakim Nyström /  Mats Wilander 6–0, 6–3


1987 U.S. Clay Court Championships – Doubles
Hans Gildemeister and Andrés Gómez were the defending champions but lost in the second round to Craig Campbell and Barry Moir. Third-seeded pair Laurie Warder and Blaine Willenborg claimed the title by defeating Joakim Nyström and Mats Wilander in the final.


1987 U.S. Clay Court Championships – Doubles, Seeds
The top four seeds received a bye into the second round. A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1987 U.S. Clay Court Championships – Singles
Andrés Gómez was the defending champion but he lost in the second round to Gary Muller. Top-seeded Mats Wilander claimed the title by defeating Kent Carlsson in the final, as he had in Boston a week earlier.


1987 U.S. Clay Court Championships – Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds received a bye into the second round. A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1987 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
The 1987 U.S. Figure Skating Championships took place in January 1987 at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington. Medals were awarded in four colors: gold (first), silver (second), bronze (third), and pewter (fourth) in four disciplines – men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing – across three levels: senior, junior, and novice.


1987 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
The event was one of the criteria used to select the U.S. teams for the 1987 World Championships.


1987 U.S. Open (golf)
The 1987 U.S. Open was the 87th U.S. Open, held June 18–21 at the Olympic Club in San Francisco, California. Scott Simpson passed and held off 1982 champion Tom Watson on the Lake Course to win his only major title by one stroke.


1987 U.S. Open (golf)
Eleven former champions were in the field and only four made the 36-hole cut.


1987 U.S. Open (golf)
This was the third U.S. Open at the Lake Course of the Olympic Club, the previous two in 1955 and 1966 ended in playoffs. The U.S. Open returned in 1998 and 2012; both were won by one stroke.


1987 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round
Watson held a share of the lead after 36 holes, then took a one-shot lead over Simpson and Keith Clearwater into the final round. Clearwater, 27, shot a six-under 64 on Saturday to get into the final pair with Watson. Watson struggled out of the gate on Sunday on Olympic's difficult start; he bogeyed the first two holes and the fifth as well. Simpson birdied the first but then had three bogeys in four holes. With consecutive birdies at 8 and 9, Watson carried a one-stroke lead to the back nine.


1987 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round
Simpson, a group ahead on the course, took the lead with a 30-footer (9 m) for birdie at 15, but Watson responded with a birdie at 14 to tie. At 16, Simpson sank a 9-footer (2.7 m) for his third straight birdie to take the lead, then Watson missed his from 12 feet (3.7 m) to match. Simpson found a greenside bunker at 17, then hit his sand shot to 6 feet (1.8 m) and saved par.


1987 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round
With a par on 18, Simpson was in the clubhouse with a 68 and Watson needed a birdie to a force a Monday playoff. His 35-foot (11 m) putt narrowly missed and Simpson was the champion by a stroke. In the final pairing, Clearwater had trouble both early and late and shot a 79 (+9) to fade to a tie for 31st. Seve Ballesteros finished in solo third place, his best career finish in a U.S. Open.