November 20, 1989 | Volume 71, Issue 21

In his more discouraged moments. Chuck Otterman considers the modern marvel that is Hopi High School—a sprawling, rust-colored structure baking in the sun 75 miles northeast of Wins-low, Ariz.—and...

MAXIMUM PARITY

SAVING THEIR SKINS

Chiefs at Browns. Kansas City coach Marty Schottenheimer, who resigned as Cleveland's coach last December after a dispute with owner Art Modell, returns to the Dawg Pound for his first game since...

A GATHERING STORM

OFFENSE:In a 45-17 win over Wisconsin, Indiana senior Anthony Thompson rushed for 377 yards on 52 carries to break the Division I record of 357 set by Rueben Mayes at Washington State in '84....

Michelle Moody has helped her father, Orville, become a big winner on the Senior tour

Recall when slot cars were a kids' fad? Nowadays they are very high-tech and very adult

NBC took the NBA away from CBS for a cool $600 million

PRO BASKETBALL—"You wondered if the game was ever going to end," Bucks forward Ben Coleman said after Milwaukee finally beat the SuperSonics 155-154 in a game that was decided in the last seconds...

JUNE WERNKEGREENWOOD, IND.Wernke, a senior on the University of Indianapolis tennis team, ended the season 18-0 in singles and, with partner Amy Potts, 18-0 in doubles for a four-year...

Every school should get a fair slice of the tournament pie

Kris Karlson is a world-champion rower and a member of the U.S. national team. Because of these achievements, she dreads hearing the O word. "When I got back from the world championships last...

THE FALL OF THE WALL

•Diego Maradona, Argentine soccer star, to a reporter complaining about the limited media access to Maradona's million-dollar wedding last week in Buenos Aires: "You didn't invite me to your wedding."

Michigan looks to be en route to Pasadena again after a game Illinois could have won

Senior editor Roy S. Johnson, who guided this week's 52-page college basketball preview from conception to birth, is a man of many talents. Besides assigning story ideas, editing copy and writing...

The dog show is at the Hacienda Resort Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The Haci, as it's usually called, is not exactly Caesars Palace. But it's not a Motel 6, either. You get free drinks if you...

THE ALL-DECADE TEAMDuring the summer the first thing I do upon receiving SI is read Peter Gammons's INSIDE BASEBALL. I was flabbergasted when I saw his pick for Shortstop of the Decade (Oct. 2)....

Superlatives flow easily in the big ten. the conference has this season's best freshman class (at Indiana), the active coach with the best winning percentage (Michigan's Steve Fisher, 100%) and...

Before all you Brawny midwesterners work yourselves into a lather about which conference is the orneriest in the land, consider the prospect of Georgetown's Alonzo Mourning, Syracuse's Derrick...

After years in which arenas were built and programs nurtured to the point where basketball in the SEC really mattered—rather than being a mere diversion between football seasons—the conference is...

There will be a changing of the guard in the ACC, in which conference games should be determined more on the perimeter than in the paint. Gone are the dominant big men of recent years—Duke's Danny...

The big eight is like the little boy at the state fair who learns, to his dismay, that the blue-ribbon hog will soon be bacon. Missouri should emerge as league champion, but the men in the...

It won't happen. UNLV is the best team in the nation, not just the best in the Big West, so nothing will keep the Runnin' Rebels from winning their eighth straight league title. But as many as...

Thanks mainly to Louisville coach Denny Crum's annoying habit of recruiting and developing standout players, the league's hierarchy looks much as it has for the past four years. The Cardinals are...

The wildcats may be weaker after losing Sean Elliott and Anthony Cook to the NBA, but no team in the conference is capable of razing Arizona. Only UCLA will make a credible challenge. The Bruins...

Throughout the 1980s the Atlantic 10 has had little balance, scant television exposure and almost no chance of attracting the region's top talent—in short, all the headaches that the Big East...

Guy V. Lewis must be getting a chuckle over what's happening in the Southwest Conference. During all those winters when Lewis was tossing his polka-dot towel and dominating the league at Houston...

It's a pity that Notre Dame, the best team among the independents, HAS SO many of its marquee games in December. Sophomore forward LaPhonso Ellis, the team's leading rebounder last season, will be...

Three years ago, Robert Lee Sanders was washing dishes at a Bennigan's restaurant in Charleston, W.Va., having decided against attending college. A year later, Pat Madden was a backup quarterback...

The folks of Whitewater, Wis., are worried that their serene existence may be endangered. The quiet town of 11,520 inhabitants, situated about halfway between Madison and Milwaukee, never expected...

"Nashville may be the best city around for small-college basketball," says Rick Byrd. He's coach of that city's BELMONT COLLEGE, one of the best NAIA teams in the country, and it's hard to...

Point guard Jennifer Azzi has put Stanford right in the driver's seat

A meager 9,758 fans showed up for the NCAA women's championship game in Tacoma, Wash., last April 2 even though the men's finals were played the day before and the day after only 25 miles away in...

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