THE GAMES INCH FORWARD
•Lon Simmons, A's broadcaster, on the slow pitches of 43-year-old Yankee Tommy John: "You could almost walk alongside them."
June 23, 1986 | Rick Reilly
Hector Camacho got Edwin Rosario riled up, but the lightweight champ made off with a split-decision win
June 23, 1986 | Ron Fimrite
June 23, 1986 | Demmie Stathoplos
Badger eights took both the men's and the women's collegiate titles
June 23, 1986 | Darryl Brock
Cincinnati's cocky leadoff hitter swings and cracks a line drive over the second baseman's head. The ball rises into the wind and hooks away from the lunging San Francisco rightfielder. The...
Except for Tony Tirado's goal calls, give World Cup coverage a zzzzzzz
Nancy Lieberman broke basketball's gender barrier with her USBL debut
FINGER-LICKIN' GOODWade Boggs became the first man since Ted Williams in 1941 to hit .400 over the course of a season's worth of games. During the Red Sox' final 107 games of the 1985 season,...
Atlanta's Chuck Tanner is generally known for his optimism and sunny disposition. But the sight of fluffballing southpaw Mark Thurmond of the Padres throwing a three-hitter at the Braves in San...
In the hot film Top Gun, Tom Cruise stars as an F-14 Navy fighter pilot specially trained to turn a $36 million jet into the ultimate war machine. As the ads say, it's a movie about being the best.
June 23, 1986 | Arthur Marx
On a hot Labor Day afternoon in 1940, I played Carl Earn in the men's singles finals of the Santa Monica City Championships while Groucho Marx, my father, looked on from the grandstand. Groucho...
June 23, 1986 | Compiled by MORIN BISHOP
COLLEGE BASEBALL—ARIZONA, on the strength of two-run homers by Mike Senne and Gar Millay, drubbed Florida State 10-2 to win the College World Series in Omaha for the third time. Gary Alexander...
June 23, 1986
RICK RAETHEREDINA, MINN.Raether, a 6'5" junior pitcher at the University of Miami, set a Division I career record for saves with 37. Raether was 9-2 with 17 saves, 114 strikeouts and a 2.77 ERA in...
June 23, 1986 | Edited by Gay Flood
COONEY'S COMEBACKSir:Concerning Pat Putnam's article on Gerry Cooney (Hello, Gerry, Where Ya Been?, June 9), let's face it: Cooney is an American sports hero. Anybody who questions his ability...
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