September 16, 1991 | Volume 75, Issue 12

Going for the Gold

[Thumb Up]To Otis Smith of the Orlando Magic, for launching a $1.5 million fund-raising drive for the Otis Smith Foundation, which sponsors activities for underprivileged youth.

Last month the French sports daily L'Equipe ran a list of baseball games appearing on television over the weekend. Included among the National League entries was a game between Cincinnati and Metz.

Lee Corso, ESPN college football commentator, on the University of Hawaii's poor record on the mainland: "Hawaii doesn't win many games in the United States."

The 24-year-old Jimmy Connors made the cover of our Sept. 20, 1976, issue when he defeated Bjorn Borg to win his second U.S. Open. After losing to Connors in the semis, Guillermo Vilas said of his...

At first glance, a photo that ran in the New York Times (above tight) and a number of other newspapers nearly three weeks ago shows Mike Powell eclipsing Bob Beamon's long jump mark in Tokyo....

The Black AthleteI salute your idea of The Black Athlete Revisited (Aug. 5, Aug. 12, Aug. 19), but I have a hard time seeing eye to eye with most of the views expressed. I feel that sports are one...

Fortunately for the U.S., Phil Mickelson's shots were better than his one-liners at the Walker Cup

The Old and the New

OFFENSEMichigan wide receiver Desmond Howard, a junior, caught seven passes for 86 yards, including TDs of 19, 8 and 19 yards, and scored on a 93-yard kickoff return in a 35-13 win over Boston...

From Bad to Worse

Opening Kickoff, Glanville-Style

While we don't quite know what to make of Steve Young as an NFL quarterback, we do know this: Robin Leach would like to meet him. As a result of Young's having struck two extraordinarily lucrative...

To a lot of people, those waters are synonymous with concrete footwear. What they don't know is that the harbor is alive with game fish

BlastedBy Reggie Jackson, a home run deep into the cornstalks beyond the outfield of the Dyersville, Iowa, baseball diamond created for the movie Field of Dreams, in a game to benefit several...

Wesley BarnettST. JOSEPH, MO.Barnett, 21, in his first world senior weightlifting event, won the silver in the 100-kilogram division at the Pan Am Games with a snatch and clean-and-jerk total of...

Even in this anniversary year, Joe DiMaggio is best remembered as a regular guy from the Wharf