October 02, 1989 | Volume 71, Issue 14

From time to time during the spring of 1956, postcards and packages would arrive at my house, first from Florida and then from various American League cities. They were sent to me by my second...

BOATING—CHIP HANAUER, driving Circus Circus, earned his fourth national driving title in unlimited hydroplane racing by beating defending champion Tom D'Eath, in Miss Budweiser, in the Las Vegas...

SARAH COLLARSEYMOUR, WIS.Sarah, 16, lifted a total of 750 pounds to triumph by 200 pounds in the 139-pound division at the Badger State Games. She benched 165, squatted 255 and deadlifted 330. In...

For $1.5 mil, you would fight Iron Mike, too, says the scribe

? Here being in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains, where I am about to be dragged into the sky in an engineless airplane. Actually, I know why. It was that newspaper ad I read: "The ultimate...

•Lou Holtz, Notre Dame football coach, recalling his days as a player: "You hear people talk about having an inferiority complex. Me, I didn't have one—I was inferior."

Sunday Silence belied his name in the Super Derby. Next: Easy Goer once more

In a battle that's strictly for the birds, the overachieving Orioles seek to wing past the underachieving Blue Jays

Senior writer Rick Telander has had a love-hate relationship with big-time college football since the day he joined the Northwestern varsity as a sophomore wide receiver in 1968. Lately, though,...

Joe Montana rallied the 49ers for 21 points in eight minutes to shock the Eagles

NOTRE DAME VS. MIAMIIn NOTES (Sept. 4) William F. Reed says one of the reasons Notre Dame is dropping Miami from its football schedule after the 1990 season is that the Hurricanes do not have the...

A QUICK FIX

LIGHTING UP THE SCOREBOARDThrough the first three weeks of the season, the eruption of points has been volcanic. Cleveland scored 44 in 22 minutes against Pittsburgh in Week 1. Chicago got four...

Broncos at Browns. The good news for Cleveland is that this isn't an AFC Championship Game. The Browns have blown two such title games in the last three years—both against Denver, both in the...

CLIPPING THE DUCKS' WINGS

OFFENSE: Virginia quarterback Shawn Moore, a junior, passed for three TDs and ran for two more as the Cavaliers defeated Duke 49-28. Moore completed his first 13 throws and 14 of 15 on the day for...

GIANT STEPS

Who were the stars of the '80s? Certainly Mike Schmidt, who hit 313 homers in the decade, and Rickey Henderson, who had stolen 836 bases through Sunday, deserve that distinction. But the real star...

By allowing big-time college football to flourish in its present form, the nation's universities are shamelessly exploiting the players and debasing themselves by perpetuating the myth of the...