November 21, 1988 | Volume 69, Issue 23

Why didn't I tackle him?

SHORTFALLS AND SURPRISES

•Jim Fox, Los Angeles Kings right wing, complaining about the skating surface at a Culver City, Calif., practice rink: "I've seen better ice on my windshield."

The New Orleans Saints grabbed the lead in the NFC West with a 14-10 victory over the Los Angeles Rams

Life imitated TV as actor star Don Johnson won a world powerboat title

Arkansas's Razorbacks are unbeaten, untied and unloved, even by their own fans

What's wrong with the Southwest Conference?

Sugar Ray Leonard KO'd Donny Lalonde and savored every brutal second of it

Even Orel Hershiser had trouble when a U.S. team met Japan's tough all-stars

When assigning football pictures we frequently leave it to Biever. Photographer John Biever, that is, who covered the Arkansas-Texas A & M game (page 28) in Fayetteville, Ark., on Saturday and...

Berl Rotfeld turned sports nostalgia into a syndication hit

IN A CLASS BY HIMSELFOklahoma State's Barry Sanders (left) ran for five TDs and 312 yards to set NCAA single-season marks for TDs (31) and points (188) and become the third player to gain 2,000...

There are plot twists aplenty in Toronto, on and off the ice

CHAIKIN'S EXAMPLEThe story of Tommy Chaikin (see illustration) and his years at the University of South Carolina (The Nightmare of Steroids, Oct. 24) seemed all too familiar. I was a teammate of...

PRO BASKETBALL—Knicks forward Johnny Newman scored a career-high 35 points in a 126-117 defeat of the Bulls to kick off a 4-0 week for New York that took it from last place to first in the...

TRACY BENNETTGRAND JUNCTION, COLO.Bennett, a junior place-kicker at Mesa (Colo.) State, kicked field goals of 46.41,22 and 20 yards in a 49-14 victory against Western New Mexico. He has made 13 of...

A woman or a black should get the National League's top job