February 27, 1984 | Volume 60, Issue 9

Oh, those tangerine-colored, hot pink-striped, flaming yellow, skintight racing suits. They were all the rage at the Winter Games, a sort of catch-me-come-kiss-me costume, reflecting every beam of...

For followers of international hockey, the Sarajevo Games may be best remembered as the fourth, and final, Olympics for the great Soviet goaltender, Vladislav Tretiak. It was he who set the tone...

Early last week in Sarajevo, Valentine Piessev, a Soviet member of the International Skating Union's figure skating committee, lodged a bitter complaint with local Olympic officials: The...

The Québecois have a song, Gens du Pays, that they reserve for special occasions, and last Thursday night that patriotic tune resounded through Sarajevo's posh Restoran Mažestik, startling...

Before we bury ABC's Winter Olympics—after 63 yawning hours they deserve proper rites—let's take a look at how the network played Pretvarajmo Se, its favorite pastime in Sarajevo. Pretvarajmo Se...

Getting a second Heisman Trophy winner for its second season, which opens Sunday, may seem like icing on the cake, but the United States Football League needs more than Mike Rozier (below) and...

EASTERN CONFERENCE/Atlantic Division

Jim Kelly, a 1982 Heisman hope who vanished after an injury, has reappeared to give the USFL hope

Sarajevo Butmir Aerodrom is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there, as SI's deputy picture editor, Therese A. Daubner, seemed to be doing for the past three weeks.

A two-year layoff didn't slow down BYU's high-scoring Devin Durrant

WEST

MICHAEL JORDAN: North Carolina's 6'6½" senior guard scored 57 points on 22 of 32 from the field and 13 of 16 free throws, and had 11 rebounds and nine steals in the Tar Heels' two ACC wins.

The hole in the ice was seven feet long and three feet wide, about the size of a coffin. Loose ice lay scattered around it where the sadists and masochists of Vanda Station, Antarctica had flung...

As he did in '83, Cale Yarborough won at Daytona on the final lap

For years professional golf was blissfully free of the clutter of statistics that obscure achievement in many another sport. The only two stats followed by the golfing world were stroke average...

Walk into the Murray Memorial Ice Rink in Yonkers, N.Y. any Monday night from October to April, and you'll find Robert Burgess over in one corner. He'll be sitting on a bench, a little man dwarfed...

Most Olympic champions are the products of years of training and, often, sacrifice. But not all—certainly not Geoffrey T. Mason. In 1928 he was in the right place, at the right time, with the...

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PRO BASKETBALL—Physician, heal thyself. Despite a daylong bout with the flu, Philadelphia's Doc Erving scored 39 points in 37 minutes to lead the 76ers past the Nets 114-109. Moses Malone,...

MICHELLE PARKINSONMILLINGTON, MICH.Michelle, 17, set three national 14-to 16-year-old age-group powerlifting records in the 148-pound class and two in the 132-pound class. She is the Michigan...

SUNBURSTSSir:Congratulations! Once again your annual swimsuit edition ("A" You're Adorable, "B" You're..., Feb. 13) is a work of art! I've been reading SI for eight years now, and this issue just...

FLAMING DISPUTE

•Doug Dieken, Cleveland Browns offensive tackle, asked how he expects to be remembered after he retires: "Holding...No. 73."