So much has been written about baseball that it's rare for an author to uncover a fresh theme. But Kevin Kerrane has done just that with Dollar Sign on the Muscle: The World of Professional...
March 19, 1984
1—Jim Graham2, 3—George Tiedemann15—Illustration by Ed Renfro18—DANA Photography20, 21—Tony Tomsic22, 23—Manny Millan24, 25—Tony Tomsic (2), Manny Millan (bottom right)26, 27—Richard...
PRO BASKETBALL—It was the matchup many frustrated Bulls' fans had been waiting for. Popular guard Reggie Theus, who had been traded by Chicago to K.C. on Feb. 15, was facing off against his former...
March 19, 1984
DUANE MEYERREADING, OHIODuane, a junior wrestler at Reading High, had a 27-2 record and was un-scored upon in the 185-pound class in the regular season for the Blue Devils. He pinned 18 opponents...
March 19, 1984 | Edited by Gay Flood
SUPER ROWSir:As one who lives close by Jim (Super Row) Rowinski's hometown of Syosset, N.Y., I remember going to see the twiggy shooting forward when he played for Syosset High, the school I now...
THE CHERRY ON TOP
•Jerry Tarkanian, UNLV basketball coach, discussing the Rebels' nine seniors: "We probably won't feel the loss of them until they're gone."
March 19, 1984 | Curry Kirkpatrick
With Patrick Ewing at his formidable best, Georgetown won the Big East tournament and sallied forth into the NCAAs
Tim Witherspoon beat Greg Page, a heavyweight in more ways than one, for the vacant WBC championship
March 19, 1984 | William Oscar Johnson
U.S. women and men Alpine skiers won six World Cup races in nine days, but they lost a pair of aces
Patty Sheehan, LPGA Player of the Year for '83 and contender for '84, is long off the tee and long on heart
March 19, 1984 | Franz Lidz
Princeton grad Henry Milligan, the amateur heavyweight champ of the U.S., has Olympic hopes
Jim Zalesky's 90th consecutive win led Iowa to another NCAA title
Mike Conley won both the triple and the long jump at the NCAAs
Strawberry-flavored plastic worms. Apple-flavored plastic worms. Root beer-flavored plastic worms. These are just a few of the guises in which the modern fisherman's best friend, the artificial...
The defense never rests in Washington, home of the hottest team in the NHL
Pittsburgh's boo-birds welcomed back whipping boy Cliff Stoudt
A five-time runner-up, Maryland coach Lefty Driesell finally won the toughest tournament of all
March 19, 1984 | Roger Jackson
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March 19, 1984 | Roger Jackson
CARL HENRY: Kansas' 6'5" senior guard scored 69 points, made 29 of 46 shots from the floor and had 24 rebounds in three tournament games to lead the surprising Jayhawks to the Big Eight title.
March 19, 1984 | Kevin Kerrane
With the publication of Babe in 1974 (SI, March 18 et seq.), Robert W. Creamer set a standard of excellence for sports biographies. Now, a decade later, Creamer has demonstrated his skill once...
First, to avoid a common confusion of terms: There are dolphin fish—called dorado in Spanish-speaking countries and mahi-mahi in Hawaii—and there are also several species of dolphins that are...
March 19, 1984 | Laurence Shames
At the Lincoln
Squash Club it was cats and dogs, oil and vinegar. The squash players played
squash, the Nautilus guys did Nautilus, and hardly anybody ever crossed the
dividing line. Why should...