August 22, 1983 | Volume 59, Issue 8

•Lee Corso, asked what he has been doing since being fired as Indiana football coach last December: "I've cleaned my basement 14 times. I have the cleanest basement in America."

It's August, and everyone at SI knows where Senior Writer William Leggett is. Contrary to what Thomas Wolfe said, Leggett can and does go home again, every year. In his case home is Saratoga...

Craig Suder, third baseman for the Seattle Mariners, is in an all-around slump. He's batting .198, his son is ashamed of him, he suspects his wife's beginning to look elsewhere, and he thinks he's...

Mike Weisman faces the tough task of reviving beleaguered NBC Sports

In his second tour as the Phillies' manager, G.M. Paul Owens is motoring

George Brett has stopped using the famous pine-tar bat that sparked one of the strangest controversies in baseball history. Brett had called it "the best bat I've ever had" and had ignored a...

"My God, he hasn 't played first base regularly since 1971 in Oregon, when he was in Triple A," said Jean Luzinski of her husband, Greg, the White Sox designated hitter. With Chicago leading the...

"Here comes Mighty Mitt," Dodger Bullpen Coach Mark Cresse yelled when error-prone Second Baseman Steve Sax entered the clubhouse before a three-game series in Atlanta. Mighty Mitt indeed. Though...

LENN SAKATA: The Baltimore utility in fielder, who'd never had a hit against Chicago, ended his 0-for-66 slump with a 2-for-12 performance that improved his career average against the Sox to .026.

Late-bloomer Play Fellow wasn't late to the finish in the Travers

Mild-mannered Milton McCrory finally earned the WBC welterweight title

Downtrodden Team America turned Team Animal and tied Juventus of Italy

4—Ronald C. Modra11—Illustration by Sam Q. Weissman16, 17—Steve Powell18, 19—Heinz Kluetmeier20, 21—Tony Duffy22—Steve Powell23—Tony Duffy24—Heinz Kluetmeier (top), Tony Duffy25—Heinz Kluetmeier...

DON CHOISAN FRANCISCODon, 26, a mailman, ran 420 miles to win the New Astley Belt Six Day Race in Chula Vista, Calif., his second victory in three such races this year. Choi has held the American...

BOWLING—MARSHALL HOLMAN beat Kent Wagner 290-224 to win the $ 100,000 Venice (Fla.) Open and become the first bowler to win back-to-back titles this year.

HOWARDSir:Come on, cut the Cosell rubbish ("I've Won. I've Beat Them," Aug. 8). You people are just looking for a lot of mail from a bunch of irate jerks. Well it won't work!JEB...