November 11, 1991 | Volume 75, Issue 21

Are the Nuggets Back on Track?

After the magic drafted Stanley Roberts, the 7-foot former LSU center whose weight has ballooned as high as 315 pounds, Pat Williams, the Orlando president, had a field day telling jokes about him:

A Secret Launching

Playing Through the Pain

OFFENSECalifornia's Russell White, a junior running back, carried 23 times for 229 yards, including TD runs of one, five and 72 yards, and returned two kicks for a total of 99 yards in a 52-30 win...

Audiotapes of games past offer listeners a trip back through time

HurdledTo the top of show jumping's Grandprix standings for the second time in three years, rider Margie Goldstein. A member of the U.S. Equestrian Team, Goldstein locked up the 1991 American...

Dennis WyantWASHINGTON, D.C.Wyant, 48, national secretary for the Blinded American Veterans Foundation, won the slalom, the trick and the jump events at the World Disabled Trophy Water Ski...

Shortening the NBA's regular season would be healthier in every way

The Raging Rooks had what it took at the national junior high school chess championships

In the early days of pro basketball, the players were segregated from the fans

Here's the scouting report on senior writer Jack McCallum as he enters his seventh season as SI's man on the NBA beat:

Russell WhiteAs a graduate of Cal and a former player there, I am proud of Russell White and his accomplishments as a student and athlete (Bear on the Loose, Oct. 14). Admitting White as a Prop 48...

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[Thump up]To Lewis Stiller, a computer scientist at Johns Hopkins, who solved a classic chess problem by showing that a king, bishop and rook can defeat a king and two knights—a situation...

Jerry Reynolds, Sacramento Kings player personnel director, on player agents: "If God had an agent, the world wouldn't be built yet. It'd only be about Thursday."

In an avant-garde TV ad for Nike shoes starring tennis player Andre Agassi, noted chef Julia Child makes a brief appearance: in a clip from one of her TV shows, she is shown preparing an...

Gus Johnson of the Bullets and Dave DeBusschere of the Knicks elbowed for room on the cover of our Oct. 25, 1971, issue. In a story about Chicago Black Hawk star Bobby Hull and his 2½-year-old...

Arazi's stunning win in the Breeders' Cup evoked memories of the great Secretariat

The Southwest Conference had a Texas-sized grin after Arkansas lost to Baylor

After 10 years, Auburn coach Pat Dye appears to be losing his grip on his program as allegations of payoffs—and Tiger losses—mount

France's passion for horse racing is exercised in PMU betting cafés around the country

ALONG THE OUTER EDGES OF HUMAN LIMITS, WHERE NBA PLAYERS PERFORM, THE GAME BECOMES A PHANTASM OF SPEED AND POWER