May 24, 1982 | Volume 56, Issue 21

In 1966 I backpacked to Basaseachic, the lovely, little-known 1,000-foot waterfall in Mexico's Sierra Madre, west of Chihuahua, and almost died there. It was clean and primitive then. Now off-road...

Fencing is based on the ancient art or craft of killing your fellow man. But there's a lot more to it than that. As a sport, it shifts the focus from killing to the various ways of doing the deed...

4—Lane Stewart34, 35—Derik Murray36, 37—John Iacono (left), Tony Triolo (bottom), Peter Read Miller38, 39—Tony Triolo40, 41—Ronald C. Modra42—Andy Hayt43—Peter Read Miller44—Manny Millan47—Tony...

PRO BASKETBALL—In the NBA best-of-seven conference championships, the Los Angeles Lakers eliminated San Antonio in a four-game sweep, while the Philadelphia 76ers took a surprising 3-1 lead over...

TARJA KOHOLAHTI, FINLANDKoho, a freshman at Guilford (N.C.) College, won 24 consecutive tennis matches for the Quakers this season without the loss of a set. At the NAIA District 26 tournament,...

BY GEORGE!Sir:As a lifelong Yankee fan, I appreciated Steve Wulf's article This Time George Went Overboard (May 10). I became disillusioned with George in 1979 when he traded First Baseman Chris...

Professional baseball celebrated its centennial in 1969, 100 years after the original Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first team to be paid for its efforts, closed out its first season. (It never...

The members, by unanimous agreement, hold no meetings and pay no dues. Two of the three qualifications for membership are residency in the Washington, D.C. area and a sense of humor, and the...

When Theodore Maggio died last January in Baltimore at 65, he left behind what was probably the largest private collection of balls in America. Maggio was a tiny, splintery, dried-up old man who...

•Doug Dieken, Cleveland Brown offensive tackle, at a roast for Houston Oiler Defensive End Elvin Bethea, a 14-year veteran: "Elvin is so old he had to use a jumper cable to get started last year."

What's it like to have one of Nolan Ryan's 100 mph fastballs coming at you? How does a high school basketball phenom go about choosing a college from among scores of offers? Those questions, and...

After taking Phoenix in four games, Los Angeles kept its playoff slate clean by sweeping San Antonio and the West

Bob McAdoo learned what it was like to be forgotten shortly after he was traded to the Detroit Pistons 2½ years ago. He had been Rookie of the Year in 1973 while playing for the Buffalo Braves,...

Julius Erving vowed that any comparison with last year was illegal, immoral and distracting, as the 76ers again forged ahead of the Celtics 3-1

The first thing Dr. Ronald G. Michels tells any patient with a detached retina is that he or she has suffered "one of the most serious things that can happen to the eye," and that if surgery isn't...

In Oklahoma when, as the song has it, "the winds come sweepin' down the plain," the track team at Oklahoma Christian College, a small NAIA school on the northern edge of Oklahoma City, takes a...

Once, on a wet fall afternoon 16 years ago, a three-hour training run took me along a lonely ridge between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific. Ahead was a farmhouse and an elderly woman making her...

Hard-hitting Keith Moreland is making a name for himself with Chicago

NL WEST

According to an SI poll of managers and coaches, these shortstops have the widest fielding range:

GARY MATTHEWS: The Philadelphia leftfielder batted .520, drove across 11 runs, scored seven times and walloped his second, third and fourth round-trippers of the year as the Phils won seven straight.

Profane Hubie Brown came over clean and sweet on basketball telecasts

Venerable records looked less "untouchable" after the UCLA Invitational

Aloma's Ruler and young Jack Kaenel moseyed off with the Preakness