January 28, 1985 | Volume 62, Issue 4

A NEW HURDLE FOR MOSES

•Norm Pollom, Buffalo Bill director of scouting, on modern-day placekicking: "An NFL game today is like a golf tournament in which you play your way up to the green and find a guy from Brazil...

"Roger! Roger Craig! How're you doing, fellow?" A flushed Bill Walsh was greeting a barefoot Roger Craig in the raucous 49ers' locker room at Stanford Stadium after Super Bowl XIX. Walsh, a good...

For hometown fans of the Miami Dolphins last week, the next best thing to being there was watching the coverage of their beloved team on local television. All three network affiliates sent teams...

When Joe Ransbotham, district manager for Time Inc.'s newsstand sales in the Carolinas (shown at The Pop Shoppe in Charlotte, N.C.), knows we're covering an event of importance to his area, he 1)...

After 18 losses in 18 seasons, Duke finally upended rival North Carolina in formerly unfriendly Chapel Hill

Mary Decker, her Olympic anger untempered, set a record in LA.

Wesley Ward, who's only 16, is the top apprentice jockey in the country

David Robinson sprouted to 6'11" and the Middies have never stood taller

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Oklahoma coach Billy Tubbs was the model of decorum during the Sooners' Big Eight victories over Missouri (92-65) and Kansas (87-76) last week. No referee-baiting. No fickle fingers for the fans....

BENOIT BENJAMIN: Creighton's 7-foot junior center scored 88 points and had 32 rebounds and 15 blocked shots in the Bluejays' Missouri Valley victories over Southern Illinois and Indiana State.

Donald Curry cut down a gutsy Colin Jones to retain his crown

At 29, Pittsburgh's Warren Young is the senior rookie in the NHL

You don't have to be a golfer to enjoy the latest in the series of reproductions from the Rare Book Library of the USGA. But you do have to be an admirer of good writing. All who are are in the...

PRO BASKETBALL—On Super Bowl Sunday, the NBA had a super match of its own—an Atlantic Division showdown between Boston and Philadelphia. Coming in, the Sixers were riding a 13-game winning streak...

PATRICIA MIHALKORICHFIELD SPRINGS, N.Y.Mihalko, 44, field-hockey coach at Cooperstown High for 22 years, broke the national high school record for most career wins in her sport by coaching the...

RED AUERBACH'S TEAMSir:It was a pleasure to open your Jan. 14 issue (LEADING OFF) and see the aging but smiling faces of NBA immortals. Frank Deford's article No. 2 In The Rafters, No. 1 In Their...