October 07, 1991 | Volume 75, Issue 15

The next wave in amusement is a something called "virtual reality," and it has already arrived in Chicago

The American composer Charles Ives was as much a fan of baseball as he was of Beethoven or Bach

Champion go-karter Rich Hearn scraped together tuition for a French driving school, where he majored in chasing a Grand Prix ride

LostHis first NASCAR race in his last seven starts, Harry Gant, who finished 1.5 seconds behind winner Dale Earnhardt in a Winston Cup event at the North Wilkesboro (N.C.) Speedway. Although Gant...

Ellen McCoyST. PAULMcCoy, a 71-year-old grandmother of five, ran the second fastest marathon ever for an American woman over 70. She was clocked in 4:13:28 for the Grandma's Marathon from Two...

If the professionalized U.S. Olympic basketball team loses, this writer wants to be there

[Thumb Up] To the Plainfield (Ind.) Middle School, for maintaining a no-cut policy on its cheer-leading squad, as well as on most of its athletic teams. Of the school's 800 students, 73 are...

Tom Hughes, disc jockey for WGST-AM in Atlanta, telling listeners about an imaginary new Dominique Wilkins Highway: "That's the one with all the No Passing signs."

Marching bands are as much a part of college football as the weekly rankings, so we asked two college band directors, Florida State's Pat Dunnigan and Jackson State's Edward Duplessis, plus Dallas...

Twenty-year-old Wayne Gretzky appeared on the cover of our Oct. 12, 1981, issue, the hockey preview. Gretzky had just won his second MVP award, but St. Louis Blues coach Red Berenson warned that...

It is even lonelier at the bottom than at the top, as the hapless Cleveland Indians can attest

When catcher Mickey Owen did so in 1941, he made baseball history

With sharks in mind, the author ventured across the Santa Barbara Channel

The Long Knockers Driving Range, in Philadelphia, is one urbanite's field of dreams

End Zone ReactionsApparently Curry Kirkpatrick thinks that the ideals of good sportsmanship and class are outdated (The No Fun League, Sept. 2). If he wants to watch moonwalking, funky chickens,...

The Defense Rests

OFFENSEJamie Martin, a junior quarterback for Division I-AA Weber State, completed 33 of 51 passes for 440 yards and seven TDs, including the game-winner with 0:16 left, in a 63-59 defeat of...

Deanja Vu

Offensive Linespeak

It's His Call to Make

And the Last Became First

Last week, in a front-page story in the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, Eric Ramsey, a former Auburn defensive back who in June had charged the Tiger football program with racism, launched a new...