May 20, 1991 | Volume 74, Issue 19

[Thumb Up]To the Florida Legislature and Bertram Firestone for bringing racing back to Hialeah Park, which closed in December 1989. After Firestone, the owner of rival Gulfstream, reached a...

Jerry Glanville, Atlanta Falcon coach, on the hazards of his profession: "If you're a pro coach, NFL stands for 'Not For Long.' "

The Stanley Cup, the oldest professional team trophy in North America, will soon change hands. The Cup has been in some odd situations since Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley, Governor-General of...

Maybe you read last week that Magic Johnson had purchased a share of the colt Honor Grades, who is scheduled to run in this week's Preakness, from co-owners Bruce McNall and Wayne Gretzky. Perhaps...

Julius Erving appeared on the May 17, 1976, cover after his New York Nets took a 3-1 lead over the Denver Nuggets in the ABA finals. (They won in six.) Erving was shooting baskets before Game 2...

Michael Jordan's teammates were much in evidence as Chicago took a 3-1 lead over Philly

The Portland Trail Blazers opened the 1990-91 season with a 19-1 start. They ended it by going 16-1. In between they looked mortal for, oh, maybe a week, but still won often enough to assure...

James Toney KO'd Michael Nunn, the IBF middleweight champ, in Nunn's hometown ballpark

Most of us think of what we do as writing," says senior writer William Nack. "But Leigh Montville sits down and says, 'Why don't I tell you all a story?' "

While others tried to play it cool, Rick Mears and A.J. Foyt qualified one-two in a fiery midday sun at Indy

Farma Way blew away the track record in winning the Pimlico Special

Skip, I Need More Work To Be EffectiveLast week, in a 17-1 loss to the Braves, Cardinals infielder Jose Oquendo made his third major league pitching appearance. Oquendo, who was pitching for the...

Florida State, then the No. 1 team in college baseball, had just defeated Louisville 14-6 on Little League Day in Tallahassee, Fla., when the swarm descended on the field. Suddenly, Eduardo Perez...

Calfee ParkOnce again your baseball issue was sensational, but the photograph of the old Calfee Park in Pulaski, Va., was extra special (The Anywhere Game, April 15). I lived in Pulaski from 1972...

PlacedThird in the seven-card stud championship at the World Series of Poker, in Las Vegas, Los Angeles Laker owner Jerry Buss. Buss, who has been playing competitive poker for only two years,...

Kara WroldsonPITTSFIELD, MASS.Kara, 13, won the New England women's amateur open eight-ball pool title by defeating Nadine Borofsky, 25. She was also 17th out of 332 male and female competitors in...

Could that have been Ted Williams you saw hustling baseball memorabilia on cable TV? The answer, sad to say, is yes