March 07, 1983 | Volume 58, Issue 10

Down on the Deuce—New York's 42nd Street—three-card monte isn't the main event anymore. No, the hottest hustle involves one of the world's oldest pastimes—chess.

8—Carl Iwasaki19—Illustration by Sam Q. Weissman24, 25—Paul Bereswill26, 27—Manny Millan, Jacqueline Duvoisin, Manny Millan, Jacqueline Duvoisin28-30—Paul Bereswill31—Anthony Neste40, 41—Lane...

PRO BASKETBALL—The Philadelphia 76ers, despite their league-and Atlantic Division-leading 49-7 record, continued playing against lesser teams with a vengeance. In a 133-101 rout of Dallas, Philly...

KELLY McKILLENDEXTER, MICH.Kelly, a senior at Dexter High, won the state girls' cross-country title and led her team to its second straight league crown. A girls' track high school All-America,...

BACK TO BASKETBALLSir:First it was sexy Cheryl Tiegs on SI's cover (Feb. 14); now, seven days later, it's an ordained Pentecostal minister, NBA rookie Terry Cummings of the San Diego Clippers....

EXPLOITATIVE AND COLLUSIVE

•Don Haskins, basketball coach at Texas-El Paso, after a street in that city was named Don Haskins Drive: "I don't know how I can thank everybody. It's hard for me to put into words—I'm just a coach."

In the season finale, Eamonn Coghlan lowered his indoor mile record to 3:49.78

How badly did the USFL hurt the National Football League draft? Substantially in the first round, according to a cross-section of NFL scouts. Much less so after that. Here are the 15 top rookies...

Enter Team America—in the NASL and as the U.S. side in international play

Ball State's Ray McCallum, 5'9", is the Mid-America's top scorer ever

TROY LEE MIKELL: The senior guard, top field-goal shooter (71.6%) in the nation, scored 46 points, hitting 17 of 20 shots from the floor and 12 of 19 from the line, as East Tennessee State won twice.

Even without Walker, the USFL had the right recipe to get on the tube

During the mid-to-late 1950s, teachers at the Homewood Elementary and then the Liberty School in Pittsburgh had an unusual option when it came to class discipline. They could use a ruler to rap a...

I was at the State Correctional Institution at Pittsburgh, commonly known to the cons as Western Penn, to visit my brother. He's serving a life term and I'm writing a book about him and the...