July 06, 1992 | Kenny Moore
July 06, 1992 | Steve Wulf
Dan O'Brien has many spiritual ancestors. Willie Shoemaker stood in the irons a little too early and lost the 1957 Kentucky Derby aboard Gallant Man. Roberto de Vicenzo signed an inaccurate...
After requesting a pregame photo, Cuba posed no match for the debuting U.S. Olympic team
If you've heard the hypemeisters billing the U.S. Olympic basketball team as "the world's greatest pickup squad," it may have occurred to you that so fabulously wealthy and slickly marketed a...
July 06, 1992 | Bruce Newman
Raul Marquez studied boxing so well under his father that he earned a trip to Barcelona
Still, freak accidents took the lives of Jerome Brown of the Philadelphia Eagles and Eric Andolsek of the Detroit Lions
Death is not supposed to play favorites. Anguish is supposed to spread itself around. So you can understand why last week, after burying teammate Eric Andolsek in a Louisiana cemetery, several...
July 06, 1992 | Steve Wulf
Women ballplayers are celebrated in "A League of Their Own"
July 06, 1992
Chicago StadiumI thoroughly enjoyed Rick Telander's "Da Stadium" (June 1). Chicago Stadium is indeed a national treasure. As a Chicago native, I suffer from an obsession about seeing Bulls and...
July 06, 1992 | Curry Kirkpatrick
July 06, 1992 | Merrell Noden
Stop the Fighting
The Day after Father's Day
July 06, 1992 | Steve Hirdt/The Elias sports Bureau
They Keep Going And Going....
At the track cycling trials, Paul Swift came in first and got second, Ken Carpenter crashed and won
July 06, 1992 | Shelley Smith
July 06, 1992 | Edited by Richard Demak
More Sparring
July 06, 1992 | Edited by Richard Demak
Buddy Groom, Detroit Tiger rookie pitcher who was 0-2 at week's end, when told that the record for rookie futility is held by the Washington Senators' Robert Groom, who began the 1909 season 0-19:...
July 06, 1992 | Edited by Sally Guard
StormedThe state of Georgia, by Boris Yeltsin and fellow Muscovites. Boris, who's nine and a grandson of the president of Russia, is touring the southeastern U.S. with 14 mates from Moscow's...
July 06, 1992
Jowanna McMullenBROOKLYNJowanna, an eighth-grader at I.S. 324, is the first eighth-grader to win two National Scholastic track and field high school championships. She won both the 800-meter...
U.S. track and field athletes have little defense against coercion by the sport's dictators