May 28, 1984 | Volume 60, Issue 21

I stuck my rink on a warm morning in the false spring of this past February. After the children left for school, I took a 16-inch knife sharpening steel, walked to the southeast corner of the...

2, 3—John McDonough4—George J. Marcelonis25—Illustration by Sam Q. Weissman26—Ira Wyman (top), Jack Smith28, 29—Bob Mummery/TIME30—Anthony Neste31—Paul Bereswill (top), Anthony Neste32, 33—Paul...

CARLTON HASELRIGJOHNSTOWN, PA.Carlton, 18, won the state Class AAA heavyweight wrestling title with a 10-0 record, even though his school, Greater Johnstown High, has no wrestling program. Before...

PRO BASKETBALL—When Boston met Milwaukee last year in the NBA Eastern Conference semifinals, Bill Fitch was the Celtic coach, Harry T. Mangurian Jr. was the team's owner, Tiny Archibald was a...

ESPN'S DICK VITALESir:William Taaffe's May 14 TV/RADIO article on Dick Vitale was a joy to read. I've been asking DV to turn down the volume for what seems like an eternity. Vitale is the Howard...

A flight of cranes rising from a bog at daybreak makes a strong case for the theory that birds descended from reptiles. Stilt-legged and snake-necked, cranes seem to have evolved very little since...

BOIKOT

•Don Smith, Atlanta Falcons defensive end, on the expected return of fellow defensive end Jeff Yeates for a 13th NFL season: "The thing that's kept Jeff around is his longevity."

Gate Dancer, the colt who sports purple earmuffs, triumphed in the 109th Preakness at a record clip

The following major-leaguers have been convicted of possession or treated for use of hard drugs within the last five years:

At 6 a.m. on April 7, Pirate reliever Don Robinson was awakened by a knock on the door of his room in the Los Angeles Biltmore. When he answered it, he saw his best friend standing there. Rod...

Senior editor Margaret Sieck shifted uneasily at her table in a Greenwich Village restaurant last Thursday night. She bolted her coffee, then waited expectantly for her dinner companions to do...

The Indianapolis 500 is unlike any other sporting event anywhere. The crowd is immense—300,000—and it takes three weeks of practice and qualifying to get things sorted out for a race that lasts a...

If you want to know where we were, I'm not sure I can tell you. Maps weren't available, not even at a neighborhood yak station. "I doubt that they exist," said one of our leaders.

Ryne Sandberg's glove and bat have lifted the Cubs to their division lead

The Pirates' John Candelaria, who loves to scream, is at it again. After losing 1-0 to Nolan Ryan last week, he castigated G.M. Pete Peterson. "We've got a bozo for a general manager," Candelaria...

A cocky light heavyweight and a hard-hitting heavyweight almost had a go at each other last Thursday afternoon in Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium. When Cubs manager Jim Frey was arguing a call at...

When Giants manager Frank Robinson appointed Jack Clark team captain last week, the initial reaction had to be, "You've got to be kidding." The two openly feuded at times in Robinson's first three...

JOAQUIN ANDUJAR: The Cardinals' righty won twice, allowing two earned runs, to give him a league-leading seven victories, and "called" a grand slam against Atlanta, his second homer of '84.

The Lakers led Phoenix 3-1 and were one game away from the NBA finals

Tiffany Lisa Cohen is America's Olympic distance freestyle hope

At Olympic trials in France, the Soviets let L.A. know what it will miss

Some very large, solemn dogs are helping to put an end to at least one of the bitter battles between environmentalists and businessmen. In this case the businessmen are sheep and goat raisers. For...