Minority Opinion
[Thumb Up]To Virginia basketball All-America Dawn Staley, for talking a 16-year-old Charlottesville girl out of committing suicide. Staley persuaded the girl, a basketball fan, not to jump off the...
Dick Motta, Sacramento Kings coach, to team executives who questioned the expense of a private plane in light of the Kings' 1-40 road record last season: "I don't think we would have won that game...
Cincinnati Reds catcher Johnny Bench appeared on our Nov. 1, 1976, cover, after earning MVP honors in the World Series. The Reds' sweep of the New York Yankees was so convincing that we wondered...
November 04, 1991 | Steve Rushin
Greg Olson, the Atlanta Braves catcher, looked down at the clubhouse floor in search of consolation. "The National League championship ring will be nice," he said. "We know we gave it our best...
Two hours after Jack Morris had completed the longest pitching performance ever in a seventh game of the World Series, the Twins' Randy Bush watched Morris still splashing gleefully through the...
Clad in unfamiliar purple, Clemson reaffirmed its ACC supremacy by defeating N.C. State
November 04, 1991 | Rick Telander
November 04, 1991 | Rick Telander
After spending his summer traversing the country from ballpark to ballpark, senior writer Steve Rushin, whose World Series story begins on page 16, was grateful that more than half of the Fall...
November 04, 1991 | Sam Toperoff
November 04, 1991 | Jim Bolus
Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams weren't the only superstars of 1941. Consider the willful Triple Crown champion, Whirlaway
November 04, 1991 | Peter King
Quick! name some Seattle Seahawks! Dave Krieg, the quarterback, you say...John L. Williams, the running back...a receiver named Blades—hold it! Brian or Bennie?—and there's.... The point is that...
On the Outside, Looking In
[Editor's note: While new purple jerseys played an important role in Clemson's victory over N.C. State (page 28), purple garb was worn by three other teams we find ourselves writing about this...
OFFENCEPacific junior wideout Aaron Turner had 16 catches for 228 yards—one for the winning TD with :05 left—for an NCAA-record 10th straight 100-yard game, in a 27-20 defeat of New Mexico State.
November 04, 1991 | Joseph Spinelli
November 04, 1991 | Joseph Spinelli
Don King declined to be interviewed. His attorney, Robert Hirth, wrote in a letter to SI that "Spinelli's animus toward Mr. King is longstanding and well known." Of Spinelli's charges that King...
Alcatraz, a lockup of legend, is the starting point for an arresting San Francisco triathlon
After more than 15 years in organized crime—as a soldier and later as a fast-rising capo in New York City's Colombo crime family—Michael Franzese sat down with his father, onetime underboss John...
November 04, 1991 | Stephen Malley
Arthur Ashe is a bibliophile with a passion for collecting books on black athletes
Bought OutFor $5 million by the Sacramento Kings, the contract of center Ralph Sampson. The 7'4" Sampson, who was selected by the Houston Rockets with the first pick of the 1983 draft, averaged...
November 04, 1991
Ron EllisDALLAS
November 04, 1991 | Marty Kaminsky
Ruben Gonzalez has gone from gang member to top-ranked pro and four-time Sportsman of the Year
November 04, 1991
Rock ArtThe official logo of the Colorado Rockies is better than SI's proposed substitute (SCORECARD, Oct. 7). It is clean and legible, with obvious symbolism. The white baseball against a purple...
What of an ex-Auburn football player who chose to take the money and run his tape recorder?
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