If this is spring, it must be time for Ernie Harwell. Go ahead, tune him in. See if the world isn't stable and orderly and sane once again. You see, that's the meaning of Ernie Harwell. He has...
WISING UP
•Dick Williams, manager of the Seattle Mariners, on the remote possibility of landing one of baseball's highest-priced free agents: "We'll get snow before we get Raines."
April 13, 1987 | Demmies Stathoplos
All baseball was stunned when Met superstar Dwight Gooden entered a Manhattan clinic after testing positive for cocaine
April 13, 1987 | Smithers Alumnus
DEAR DWIGHT GOODEN FANS,He is in the right place. I know, because I've been there. Smithers is one of the top rehabilitation centers in the country. Still, there are no guarantees that Gooden will...
Steve Alford, who helped lead Indiana to the NCAA crown, has added another chapter to his state's marvelous hoops history
April 13, 1987 | Donald J. Barr
Keith Morris died last week of a heart attack at the age of 60. From the magazine's founding 33 years ago until February 1986, when he retired as director of special events, Morris served SI in a...
In Japan, there are two kinds of truth—the kind you mean and the kind you say. There are also two kinds of pitchers—Osamu Higashio of the Seibu Lions and all the others.
Jackie Joyner's basketball career at UCLA is over. And it has been years since John Elway thumbed his nose at George Steinbrenner and months since Bo Jackson spurned the Tampa Bay bucks. That...
Seniors Matt Biondi and Pablo Morales won big at the NCAAs
Quiet Betsy King won the Dinah Shore after a battle of the birdies and a playoff
April 13, 1987 | Edited by Gay Flood
TRIBUTES TO HAYESRick Telander's balanced POINT AFTER (March 23) on Woody Hayes was a moving portrait of the old coach. Since much has been written of Hayes's controversial side, I'd like to share...
April 13, 1987 | Roy Blount Jr.
April 13, 1987 | Larry Colton
April 13, 1987 | Compiled by Bailey Breene Gendron
PRO BASKETBALL—Chicago clinched the sixth Eastern Conference playoff berth when Michael Jordan's 36 points led his team to a 101-75 thrashing of Washington. The Bulls finished the week with losses...
April 13, 1987
MIKE NOCKELSLA CROSSE, WIS.Mike, a 112-pound senior wrestler at Aquinas High, beat Dan Brock of Columbus High in Marshfield to lead the Blugolds to the state private school title, becoming the...
The NHL playoffs seem more like a marathon than hockey
April 13, 1987
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