December 07, 1987 | Volume 67, Issue 25

It is well-known that the "coffee-table" book, so named for its resting place, is an expensive tome that one almost never buys for oneself, and most certainly never reads. Happily, there are...

A judge said no to the college drug testing policy

TOUTS OR LOUTS?

•Willie Jeffries, Howard University football coach, on his massive linemen (one weighs more than 400 pounds and six others more than 300): "When we go into a restaurant, we don't look at the menu....

After 20 hellish seasons, the Saints beat the Steelers to assure a winning record at last

Nothing in golf provides instant gratification like the Skins Game. Sure, it's a contrived event, but it's also the only one that virtually guarantees that someone famous will do something...

When we decided to do the article on Arnold Schwarzenegger (page 80), we knew just whom to cast in the role of the scribe. Dan Geringer, 44, writes features for the Philadelphia Daily News, many...

For a while there, the sec, the finest assemblage of college football talent in the land, was in danger of having its third-best team in the Sugar Bowl. Had Alabama defeated No. 9 Auburn last...

On New York City's taxing Van Cortlandt Park course, Pat Porter won his sixth U.S. cross-country title

In their ignorance, the young women on the Cheers II softball team probably believed they were being respectful when they asked Stasia Czernicki to join them one evening last spring. Softball is...

PHYSICALITYI enjoyed Bruce Newman's fine article, (Let's Get Physical, Nov. 9) about the unfortunate trend toward more physical play in the NBA. Speed and finesse should be the keys to winning in...

A CASE OF FAIRNESS

Not even the draft stopped Notre Dame's Angelo Bertelli

John Croyle quit playing football to start a boys home

PRO BASKETBALL—The Celtics continued to dominate the Atlantic Division despite losses to the Bulls, 107-102, and the Bucks, 112-97. Sandwiched between those losses were wins over the Hawks,...

LYNNE STEVERWEBSTER, N.Y.Stever, a senior forward on the Nazareth College women's soccer team, scored five goals in an 8-0 win over Utica College to break by two the women's collegiate career...