April 23, 1990
HANK GATHERSThank you for the recent articles about Hank Gathers (Death on the Court, March 12, A Team on a Mission, March 26), Now we will never get to see No. 44 play with the Barkleys and the...
April 23, 1990 | Demmie Stathoplos
The people who helped create the new Kentucky Derby Museum in Louisville are the first to tell you they didn't know a fetlock from a furlong when they undertook the project. "The fatal mistake...
When it came to putting boxing on film, Thomas Edison had the right idea. Ninety-six years ago the inventor set up his kinetoscope in a laboratory in West Orange, N.J., and cranked away as world...
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•Ed Nealy, the Chicago Bulls' recently married forward, discussing the prospects of one day becoming a father: "I told my wife I shouldn't pick up the baby until it is five years old. You know how...
April 23, 1990 | Jay Greenberg
Steffi Graf came back a winner after being winsome during a two-month layoff
Gary Player slew some other giants to win the PGA Seniors
Gelindo Bordin of Italy capitalized on a blazing pace to prevail in Boston
IBF middleweight champ Michael Nunn won ugly
Shawn Bradley was just one of many who stood tall at the McDonald's all-star game
April 23, 1990 | Peter King
To the coaches and scouts gathered in the San Francisco 49er draft headquarters on the evening of April 29, 1986, it must have seemed that Bill Walsh had lost his marbles. At around 8 p.m., Walsh,...
Never has there been so much talk about doing the sort of trading down that Bill Walsh did so well in the 1986 draft. The Chargers are considering dealing their No. 5 pick for a package of draft...
Lester Moreno Perez fled Cuba by boardsailing toward Florida under cover of darkness
THE FROSTY CITYOn Opening Day at Wrigley Field, where the Cubs faced the Phillies, the temperature dropped to 36° and the windchill factor made it seem like 8°. When asked if his team expected to...
April 23, 1990 | Richard Hoffer
April 23, 1990 | Jessica Nicoll
In 1939, the Splendid Splinter befriended my dad
April 23, 1990
NICOLE CAMPBELLRALEIGH, N.C.Nicole, now 11, set three girls' state 10-and-under swimming records, with clockings of 29.17 in the 50-yard butterfly, 1:06.35 in the 100 butterfly and 27.49 in the 50...
PRO BASKETBALL—Don't look now, but with one week left in the NBA regular season, the Celtics had won six in a row and trailed the first-place 76ers by only 1½ games in the battle for the Atlantic...
Letting college juniors into the NFL draft was overdue
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