January 21, 1985 | Volume 62, Issue 3

Blood boosting in sport was all but unheard of until 1972, when Dr. Björn Ekblom of Stockholm's Institute of Gymnastics and Sports announced that tests of the procedure revealed a 25% increase in...

The revamped Bucks didn't seem to have the ingredients for yet another winner, but slimmed-down coach Don Nelson had the right recipe for success

The New York Islanders may be getting gray, but they showed that they haven't lost all their bite by putting together an old-fashioned hot streak

Staff writer Alex Wolff is a world-class aficionado of the grilled-cheese sandwich. And he's practically apoplectic over the one he's being served at Fritzl's, his favorite Swiss coffee shop in...

...with the Masters? Plenty for John McEnroe, otherwise not a lot

Old Dominion is moving to resume its reign over the women's game

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The Niners' 4-2 Nickel Defense: The 49ers will attack Marino (13)—who was sacked only 13 times all season—with this basic formation, rushing linemen Dwaine Board (76), Jeff Stover (72) or Michael...

Half a century apart, two very different coaches have been instrumental in making the hockey team of a New England parochial school the national high school champion. The first, a whimsical little...

SCOTT FRYSANDUSKY, OHIOScott, a senior at Perkins High School, won the boys' title during the Sixth Annual Kinney Cross Country Championship in San Diego. His course-record 14:50.0 on the...

PRO BASKETBALL—Boston and Philadelphia thrived on the hottest race in the NBA as both went 4-0 on the week. Thus the Celtics maintained their half-game lead in the Atlantic Division. Boston beat...

PATRICK EWINGSir:Ralph Wiley's The Master Of The Key (Jan. 7) was an excellent and honest portrayal of Patrick Ewing. In the summer of 1981, as a ball boy for the East team in the National Sports...

Ever since Mickey Cohen's house in Brentwood, Calif. was bombed one misty morning 35 years ago, that community in the Santa Monica Mountains has been hostile toward strangers. The explosion...

One of the more arresting sporting, economic and social phenomena in the U.S. is an entity called L.L. Bean, the 24-hour-a-day retail store and mail-order house in Freeport, Maine that sells about...

'I MADE A SUDDEN DECISION AT THE AIRPORT'

•Michael Jordan, Chicago Bulls guard, after scoring 32 points against the Boston Celtics, whose defensive ace, Dennis Johnson, was sidelined with an ankle injury: "I took advantage of the absence...