August 06, 1990 | Volume 73, Issue 6

Arena football is back—and so is Art Schlichter

THE BOSS NO MORE

•Syd Thrift, former baseball executive: "I like to call the American League East the Fortune 500, because its teams are spending a fortune and playing .500."

Yugoslavia won basketball gold at the Goodwill Games, but NBA stars will join the U.S. team for the Olympics

"To start with the balance beam, that is like a ditch, a hell," U.S. women's gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi said last Friday after his team drew the beam to begin the Goodwill Games team...

It wasn't exactly Tinker to Evers to Chance. But Buyanov to Bogatyrev to Onokhov had a nice ring to it, and besides, it wasn't exactly the World Series. It was Game 1 of the Goodwill Games...

Time was running out for Bill Scherr. With 10 seconds remaining last Saturday in the final wrestling match of his career, Scherr was nursing a pulled groin muscle and trailing Andrei Golovko of...

The best decathlons end like the worst disasters: Bodies are strewn everywhere. In the Goodwill Games decathlon last week, moments after the eight survivors—out of the original 10-man...

Michael Carbajal won the IBF light flyweight title in a furious bout

NO-HITTERSCertainly Yankee pitcher Andy Hawkins deserves cheers for his no-hitter against the White Sox at Comiskey Park (No, No, Oh No, July 9), while his teammates deserve jeers for turning it...

Just as baseball is America's pastime, the weekly Saturday Evening Post was once America's magazine, its arrival anticipated by subscribers as keenly as the start of the baseball season. Through...

IT MUST BE THE SPIKES

This year's U.S. Open offered big money and big names

SCHOOLED IN THE FUNDAMENTALS FROM THE TIME HE COULD WALK, JOE MONTANA SHOWED EARLY THAT HE WAS A GIFTED PASSER, AND FOOTBALL FANS FROM MONONGAHELA TO SAN FRANCISCO HAVE MARVELED AT HIS ABILITIES...

BOWLING—PARKER BOHN defeated Hugh Miller 247-236 to win a PBA tournament and $38,000 in Edmond, Okla.

BART WICKARDFORT WAYNE, IND.Bart, now 11, set a national 10-and-under age group swimming record with a time of 1:12.18 in the 100-meter backstroke at an invitational meet. He also equaled the...

Hit 61? Sluggers today would be lucky to get 50