August 24, 1987 | Volume 67, Issue 8

I watched the rowing events at the '76 Olympics in Montreal from the $3 standing-room-only embankment and stood enthralled as Finland's Pertti Karppinen rowed down West Germany's Michael Kolbe in...

NAME-DROPPERS?

•John Brodie, 52, former NFL quarterback and NBC broadcaster, on his new career on the PGA Senior Tour: "My wife said to me the other day, 'My god, you may get to 65 without ever working a day in...

The Pan Am Games drew a huge field and provided sparkling moments

Of the athletic heroes and heroines who emerged during the first week of Pan Am competition, none was more startling than Silvia Poll, a tall, reedy 16-year-old swimmer from Costa Rica. "I time...

As the Cuban players, their bright red uniforms caked with dust, filed quietly out of Indianapolis's Bush Stadium toward the parking lot last Saturday afternoon, they were in shock at what had...

For the finest female softball players of el salvador there was, in a minimal way, hope. Certainly not for a victory over the U.S. in this Pan Am Games opener, and hardly for a hit. But somewhere...

Milwaukee's Paul Molitor stretched his hitting streak to 31 games but has far to go to catch Joe DiMaggio

As Scorecard editor, Steve Wulf gets some of our more exotic mail—and that's the way he likes it. Recently he received a letter from a former Peace Corps official that contained photocopies of a...

THUNDERBIRDSFrank Deford's article on the Thunderbirds (America the Beautiful's Team, Aug. 3) was outstanding. At the Air Force Academy's graduation in May, the Thunderbirds "screamed" over the...

Jockey Julie Krone, 4'10½", looms large at Monmouth

EXPANSION THEORIES

MR. JUAN-DERFUL

John Cook won the International, which proved its points

Gaelic football and hurling have a fond following in Chicago

Cutbacks and chauvinism marred the games' coverage

BASEBALL—MAT-SU, ALASKA defeated the Wichita (Kans.) Broncos 11-8 to win the National Baseball Congress World Series, in Wichita.

LORI McCOYDIABLO, CALIF.Lori, 15, won four gold medals in three European meets as a member of the U.S. junior elite (15 to 18) synchronized swim team. She defeated competitors from 13 other...

Ten good reasons Denver deserves a major league team