October 08, 1990 | Volume 73, Issue 15

There was far more to Lou Gehrig than the stuff of legend

Grambling State University plays eight of its 11 games this season on the road, so coach Eddie Robinson is fortunate to have a star back who answers to the nickname American Express. As Robinson...

Forget Pete Rose. And George Steinbrenner. And Howard Spira. This has been one of the wildest, wackiest and most wonderful baseball seasons in recent memory. In March, who would have guessed that...

A TURN FOR THE WORSE

IT WASN'T EVEN THE SUPER BOWL

Saints at Falcons. Are the 1-2 Falcons really birds of a respectable feather, or just the ones who have lost four in a row at home to New Orleans by an average of 15 points? This is the kind of...

TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OF NEW YORK'S WFAN

Surely, playing baseball in a cemetery wasn't sinful

CYCLING—ZHOU LINGMEI of China set a women's world record with a clocking of 1:13.899 in the one-kilometer time trial at the Asian Games, in Beijing. She shaved .350 of a second off the mark...

HEIDI MASONMIAMIHeidi, 12, set a world record in the women's eight-pound-test-line class when she landed a 34-pound African pompano off the coast of Miami. She is also the first junior (10-14...

Criticizing Texas high school football can be risky

What could be simpler than making a small rubber disk? You'd be surprised

PATHETIC PAT

•Dennis Rappaport, boxing manager, on why he is reluctant to comment about his relationship with fighter Thomas Hearns: "I don't want to tell you any half-truths unless they're completely accurate."

A Freshman quarterback at Auburn came of age in a 26-26 draw with Tennessee

Ask most sports journalists to describe typical trips they have taken in the course of their work, and they will map out a route through cities like Ann Arbor, Mich., Norman, Okla., and...

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REAL FOOTBALLThank you for Geoffrey Norman's wonderful story Smart Ball (Sept. 3). The game as it is played at Chicago, MIT and Swarthmore is not an alternative to "real" football, it is real...

JUST DUCKY

OFFENSERalph Martini, a senior quarterback for San Jose State, completed 23 of 32 passes for 361 yards in a 29-23 win over Stanford. He threw for four touchdowns, including one for 72 yards, and...