February 20, 1989 | Volume 70, Issue 8

EQUALITY AND HORSESHOES

•Bucky Waters, NBC basketball commentator, on what some assistant coaches do during games: "They have the same role as the corpse at an Irish wake: Dress well and stay quiet."

Kristi Yamaguchi won two medals and stole the show at the skating nationals

We've never taken a survey to find out who reads our masthead, but we know that some people do, because when we make a change, we hear about it. "Whatever happened to so-and-so?" the letter...

Rabbits made a stew of some world-record attempts at the Meadowlands Invitational

THE WIZARD OF POMONA

The long legs of senior Chana Perry, San Diego State's 6'5" All-America center, hurt too much for her to practice on Friday, but she still got off the day's best shot—a cup of ice water right in...

DAWN STALEYVirginia's 5'5" guard scored 24 points and tied her own school record for assists with 12 in a 99-81 win over Duke. In the Cavaliers' 94-76 victory over Wake Forest she had a...

PROPOSITION 42What is lost in the furor over Proposition 42 (A New Proposition, Jan. 23) is the fact that those who would be most affected by it (and by Proposition 48) would not even be...

The NHL's latest TV deal is a bad one for fans

PRO BASKETBALL—In the games before the All-Star break, rebounder extraordinaire (and non-All-Star) Charles Oakley hauled down 28 rebounds—and scored 44 points—to help the Atlantic Division...

IVAN BARONPLANTATION, FLA.Ivan, a junior honors student at Plantation High, became the first U.S. boy to win the International Casablanca Cup junior tennis championship, in Mexico City. Past...

A hoops purist concedes that the trey has its points