November 06, 1989 | Volume 71, Issue 19

Thirty-five years ago the 24-second clock was created, the invention of Danny Biasone, a bowling alley proprietor and owner of the Syracuse Nationals. The clock may have saved pro basketball,...

Larry Bird, Eastern Europeans and Minneapolis are all making comebacks, and, come the spring, the Pistons and the Lakers will be back, playing for the championship

1 PISTONS

1 LAKERS

BACK TO BONKERS

THE LAMBS LIE DOWN

Browns at Bucs. This is the Howard Schnellenberger Bowl. In 1982, Schnellenberger recruited both of this game's starting quarterbacks, Cleveland's Bernie Kosar and Tampa Bay's Vinny Testaverde,...

The most storied class of quarterbacks in NFL history, the six who were selected in the first round of the 1983 draft, has been downright mediocre in '89. In fact, as a group their season is so...

THE STUFF OF DREAMS

OFFENSE: Arizona State junior Paul Justin completed 33 of 47 passes for four TDs and a Pac-10 record 534 yards, and senior Ron Fair had 19 catches, also a Pac-10 record, for 277 yards and three...

BASEBALL—The OAKLAND ATHLETICS swept the San Francisco Giants four games to none to win the World Series. Oakland righthander Dave Stewart, who won the first and third games, was named the MVP...

DEAN IPPOLITOBOONTON TOWNSHIP, N.J.Dean, 11, won the U.S. 12-and-under chess title for the second year in a row. by defeating Daniel Benjamin. 12. of Dresher. Pa., and qualified for the...

Take a look at today's pro athletes and you'll find out

•Serge Savard, Montreal Canadiens general manager, after hearing Luciano Pavarotti perform: "I guess you could say Pavarotti is the Wayne Gretzky of opera."

New coach Roger Neilson has the Rangers off and flying

While growing up in Bloomington, Minn., STEVE Rushin. SI's pro basketball reporter, felt the tug of several sports. As a youth working for. as he puts it, "what I believe was subminimum wage" in...

The rich got richer at the Nabisco, and Tom Kite got richest of all

Throughout the night, because of the glow from the neon lights of Reno, 30 miles to the south, there has been no true darkness in the sky over Pyramid Lake. Not until 6:30 a.m. does the first...

Bonnie Brewster isn't what you would expect in a boxing trainer. For one thing, she's a woman. She doesn't work fighters' camps and corners either; she trains recreational boxers. And she peppers...

I thought I had the answer. I was down in my basement, running like the wind on my brand-new treadmill, watching the snappy LED readout tell me my speed, my distance, how well my heart was...

Derek Sanderson returns to the room-service tray on steel hips and aluminum crutches. It has taken an eternity for him to answer the knock on the door. "This is the best way to drink coffee," he...

In addition to the pistons, which teams contain (contain being a relative term in this case) Michael Jordan? And which ones don't stop him at all? We sat Jordan down at the Multiplex, the Bulls'...

PENNSYLVANIA VS. FLORIDALast year I took issue with the cover story in your college football preview (Sept. 5, 1988) in which you stated that Florida had become the nation's No. 1 producer of...

Gill Fenerty can't get to his car. He is standing in front of a parking gate at the SkyDome, a set of keys dangling from his right index finger. "Look, this section is closed to the public," says...