May 10, 1993 | Volume 78, Issue 18

The wall of horses parted, and Sea Hero dashed through it to win the Kentucky Derby

The mighty Suns were on the verge of elimination after losing two games to the lowly Lakers

Toronto, a perennial pushover, surprised Detroit in seven gritty games

NCAA ChampionshipAlexander Wolff deserves an honorary doctorate from North Carolina's school of journalism for his magnificent article about the Tar Heels' victory in the NCAA finals (Technical...

Blue Jay John Olerud has always had a great stroke, but now he has the numbers to match it

Jeff Granger

You don't have to check the LPGA statistics to find out if Canadian golfer Dawn Coe-Jones is playing well. Just ask her how well her Sunday-morning breakfasts have gone down. When Coe-Jones is...

Almost an hour after the New York Islanders eliminated the Washington Capitals with a 5-3 win in the sixth game of their opening-round NHL playoff series, all was nearly quiet in the Isles'...

Last year at the Barcelona Olympics, U.S. freestyle wrestler Zeke Jones won the silver medal at 114.5 pounds, one of the toughest weight classes in the tournament. But that's not the way Jones...

FATHER KNOWS BEST

Patsy OddenWATERTOWN, CONN.Odden, 51, the girls' ice hockey coach at The Taft School, guided the Big Red to the New England prep school girls' title for the third straight year and to an...

The former basketball coach's yearlong battle with cancer taught us all a lesson in courage

Flashbacks

•Michael Wilbon in The Washington Post, blaming baseball writers' spats with players and managers on an excess of familiarity: "Oscar Madison [right] used to show up in the press box in the second...

President Clinton was into his closing remarks last week during ceremonies in the Rose Garden honoring North Carolina's NCAA basketball champions when Tar Heel coach Dean Smith, belatedly...

•Tom Kelly, Minnesota Twin manager, explaining why he made pitcher Pat Mahomes walk off the field with him after pulling him during a 17-1 loss to the Detroit Tigers: "Then we would have to take...