July 20, 1987 | Volume 67, Issue 3

Pitchers are throwing high and tight, and the hitters aren't taking it lying down

To his still-growing parade of titles, Gary Player has now added the U.S. Senior Open

The Bullets' Muggsy Bogues, all 5'3" of him, is set to take on the giants of the NBA.

One hundred forty two years after the first baseball rules were written, and three months into the 1987 season, one truth remains self-evident: The game is as unpredictable as ever.

Sometimes things don't turn out quite the way you expect them to. Like the entire first half of the 1987 baseball season. In the April 6 issue of SI, we confidently made our predictions. On your...

SIMPSON'S OPENLong live Rick Reilly! Each paragraph of his story on the U.S. Open (An Open and Shut Case, June 29) was a birdie you could read like a tap-in. My gosh, does he play as well as he...

Anything goes at Italy's Palio, part horse race, part Mardi Gras

After an illness, Tim Richmond is winning again

The Tour de France began with high drama and low comedy

At 72, Joe Sweeney is leaving a mark on college tennis courts

A cross-country man takes his final shot at a personal best

LISA MOOREWELLESLEY, MASS.Lisa, a freshman al Wellesley High, fanned 258 batters and allowed one earned run in 123 innings through the Division I state softball finals She was 14-0 with a 0.00 ERA...

BOWLING—SCOTT DEVERS defeated Marc McDowell 234-206 to win the PBA Miller Lite Challenge and $23,000, in Tucson.

It's time for the top runners to start racing one another

TV OR NOT TV?

•Bill Lee, former major league pitcher and noted flake, on the new orange roof in Montreal's Olympic Stadium: "It looks like the same thing George Scott wore around his waist when he was trying to...