July 21, 1980 | Volume 53, Issue 4

UPPERS IN BASEBALL: A DOWNER FOR THE NATIONAL PASTIME

•Ray Mansfield, former Pittsburgh Steeler center, at a roast for Linebacker Jack Lambert: "I taught Jack a lot—how to tie his shoes, how to brush his fangs."

Nancy Lieberman is holding her own in a tough summer league that includes some NBA players

How history will judge the Olympic boycott remains to be seen, but indisputably the athletes who might have represented the 62 boycotting nations have made a unique personal sacrifice. That sense...

Anthony Sandoval is the eldest son of an eldest son. He was born on May 19, 1954 in Truchas, N.M., 7,622 feet up in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Sandoval's parents and grandparents lived on a...

Across the street from downtown Nashville's Davidson County Court House, around back of an old brick building and up a flight of stairs, is a locked metal door. Behind it is the Nashville...

Tracy Caulkins looked to her mother for help. "I don't know. Did I?" she said.

The Olympic glass is either one-third empty or two-thirds full, depending on whether you're looking from the perspective of the boycott or from the floor of Lenin Stadium this Saturday. The 62...

On May 16, 1980, John H. Pratt, the District Judge for the District of Columbia, handed down a 23-page decision denying 25 athletes an injunction against the U.S. Olympic Committee's decision not...

The Olympic games, although diminished by the boycott observed by the U.S. and 61 other nations, open in Moscow under tight security measures. Nonetheless, there will be a fortnight of pomp and...

Bill Rea looked vacantly out the leaded windows of Schloss Wülflingen, an elegant little restaurant in the Swiss city of Winterthur. The occasion was supposed to have been a celebratory dinner,...

Sparky Anderson has the Tigers moving to a brisk left-right-left-right cadence

REGGIE JACKSON: In a four-game tear, the Yankee rightfielder batted .471, scored six runs and had 10 RBIs. Three of his hits were homers, raising his season total to 22 and tying him with Ben...

The 100° weather during the Women's Open got to everyone but Amy Alcott

Zimmerman gives a glimpse of Noll the private man, analyzes Noll's relations with Terry Bradshaw and Joe Greene, and persuades him to assess himself in two words.

One of the people I would most like to see have a chance to reconceive the Olympic Games is Jerry Glower, the former Mississippi State football player and fertilizer salesman who now flourishes as...

22—Heinz Kluetmeier23—John Iacono24—Heinz Kluetmeier25—John Iacono26—Mickey Pfleger27—Barry Staver (top), George Tiedemann (bottom)28—Mike Maple (top), Graham Finlayson (bottom)44—Dick...

BOWLING—STEVE COOK rolled a 269 to defeat Paul Moser by 89 pins and win a $90,000 PBA tournament in Fresno.

FRANCISCO JAVIER OLIVERASRIO PIEDRAS, PUERTO RICOFrancisco, 17, a righthanded pitcher for the Yabucoa Canecutters of the Amateur Baseball Federation, set a league record with 21 strikeouts in a...

OLD PARKSSir:I am one of Papa Carl Leone's "boys" who keep watch over the rightfield bleachers at Wrigley Field and who read E.M. Swift's article on the "friendly confines" (One Place That Hasn't...