March 18, 1991 | Volume 74, Issue 10

Does it really matter? does it matter that Fordham, the regular-season and tournament champion of the—this should have been a postwar lock—Patriot League didn't get into the NCAA tournament, but...

After a dozen years of reporting for daily papers and a lifetime of watching sports with her father, Dan, who was one of SI's top writers from 1963 to '84, Sally Jenkins finally felt the weight of...

High School HotshotsYour Feb. 18 article on Justin Armour (Shining Armour) brought to mind another Rocky Mountain phenom. Whatever happened to Bruce Hardy, the high school football, basketball and...

Formula One champion Ayrton Senna opened the season with a romp on Phoenix

Last Thursday, while the Formula One cars were revving up in Phoenix, 40 Indy Cars—American race cars—were being loaded into a pair of 747s at the Federal Express air terminal in Los Angeles....

Notre Dame football star Raghib (Rocket) Ismail is showing that he can fly without pads, too

Gabriela Sabatini's win in Florida ended Steffi Graf's run as the No. 1 superpower

MVP Field Is SRO

The Beast Lives

MENPurdue's Jimmy Oliver, a 6'6" senior forward, helped the Boilermakers land an NCAA tournament bid by scoring 27 points in a 72-67 upset of No. 2 Ohio State and 26 in a 77-48 rout of Northwestern.

You might say that Shaquille O'Neal, LSU's 7'1" sophomore center, and Dawn Staley, the 5'5" junior guard for the Virginia women, both carried their teams this season. O'Neal did it by slinging the...

[Thumps up]To the PGA Tour Policy Board for its ruling that Phil Mickelson, the Arizona State junior who won a recent tournament, can wait two years before using his two-year qualifying exemption....

Dick Button, two-time Olympic gold medalist, will be at the World Figure Skating Championships this week in Munich. Button lists 10 of his favorite moments in his sport, in no particular order of...

20 Years Ago in Sports Illustrated

The Dinosaur Society, a nonprofit organization for dinosaur research and education, recently enlisted 37-year-old Boston Celtics center Robert Parish (SI, March 11) to film a public-service spot....

Bob Rose, spokesman for the World League of American Football, trumpeting one of the new league's first games: "On March 24th the New York Knights play the Barcelona Dragons, and you've got to go...

PurchasedBy former University of Texas football coach Darrell Royal, Willie Nelson's 76-acre Pedernales (Texas) Country Club and recording studio. On March 6, the property, estimated by the IRS to...

Mollie MarcouxITHACA, N.Y.Marcoux, a senior center on the Princeton women's ice hockey team, had two goals and an assist in a 6-4 loss to Dartmouth. Her career point (216) and conference point...

Hey, kids! You, too, can throw (tantrums, that is) like Barry Bonds and hit (back at your bosses, that is) like Rickey Henderson