April 22, 1991 | Volume 74, Issue 15

In TrainingFor a mid-May professional boxing debut against an as yet unknown opponent, actor Mickey Rourke, 34, in Fort Lauderdale. Rourke, who had 26 bouts as an amateur before giving up the...

Dario DiFazioCARACAS, VENEZUELADiFazio, a sophomore at Miami-Dade Community College, South, won the one-and three-meter diving titles at the national junior college championships. He went...

Would it hurt to give Minnie Minoso one more at bat?

Though she lost a leg to frostbite, a California woman not only survives, she also thrives

[Thumb Up]To Lenny Saunders, a teacher at Valley View Elementary School in Montville, N.J., for organizing Project A.C.E.S.—All Children Exercising Simultaneously. On May 8, 5 million kids around...

Bob Brue, PGA Senior golfer: "I used to play golf with a guy who cheated so badly that he once had a hole in one and wrote down zero on the scorecard."

The World Table Tennis Championships begin this Wednesday in Chiba, Japan. The U.S.'s top entrant is Jim Butler of Iowa City, Iowa, who here offers 10 pieces of advice for recreational players:

Besides the cover piece on the Masters, the April 3, 1961, issue had stories on Cincinnati's victory over Ohio State for the NCAA basketball title and on Ted Williams's successor, "a boy named...

Salary EnvyKudos to Peter King for his excellent article Bawl Players (March 18). It's getting harder to handle the whining from the owners and the players. King is right when he says that Kirby...

Taking the plunge again at 41, Mark Spitz lost a made-for-TV match race to world champion Tom Jager by a whopping margin

A team of Ohio entrepreneurs insists that their oversized basketball will improve your touch

For the Schiefelbeins of Minnesota and their nine sons, wrestling and agriculture go together

The 1991 draft looks like a three-man parlay: Raghib (Rocket) Ismail, the Notre Dame wideout and return terror; Todd Lyght, the dazzling Irish cornerback; and Mike Croel, the gifted linebacker...

Wanda Panfil of Poland was a winner in Boston, but so was fourth-place finisher Joan Benoit Samuelson

A Wild OneThere might not be an uglier game all year than the Mets-Phillies debacle on April 10. It was the longest 10-inning game in history (four hours and 51 minutes) and featured 18 hits, five...