October 18, 1993 | Volume 79, Issue 16

Jackie SherrillIf a coach chooses to inspire by shock, so what? In the instance of Wild Willie—the bull Mississippi State coach Jackie Sherrill (Who Is This Clown?, Sept. 20) had castrated in...

For nearly 1,000 years a tiny, desolate island to the north of Iceland was a hotbed of chess

George Woolf's Derby, near Santa Anita, was the great jockey's personal haunt. It may still be

You can now play the country's best-known holes on one extraordinary course in Texas

Norman Vaughan first sledded in Antarctica at 24; he plans a return this year, at 87

The Triple Crown of trotting eluded American Winner when he came up a loser

For sports fans in the Windy City, it was a turbulent and troubling 48 hours

Superb antique cars took to the track at Laguna Seca

Emir Grcič, a former Bosnian soccer star and a Muslim, barely escaped his troubled homeland

In a break from tradition Massachusetts governor William F. Weld announced last week that Boston's new harbor tunnel, currently under construction, would be named not after a local politico but...

•Tony Kornheiser, in The Washington Post, on why he wanted to see Philadelphia in the World Series: "Shawn Bradley can act as foul pole."

A Swedish public-radio station paid Roma, a first-division hockey club in that country, $1,320 to have a player wear a jersey bearing the number 100.2—the station's frequency.

•Home Long, Los Angeles Raider defensive end, on playing against former teammate running back Marcus Allen (right), now with the Kansas City Chiefs: "it's kind of like watching your wife cook...

If Michael Jordan had to retire, at least he chose the best possible time, for the NBA's sake, to announce it. After all, the league was already numb from a nightmarish off-season filled with...

If John Squires were to participate in the reader surveys he oversees as SI's new consumer marketing director, it would certainly produce one more vote for a sport that doesn't get a lot of...

Mariano FriedickSANTA MONICA, CALIF.

He told his team he was sorry. Sorry about the boom mike hanging over his head like a dang halo everywhere he paced on the sideline. Sorry about the microphone wires poking out of his shirt, the...

He scored the 1,000,000th, and now he has scored a first.

Dave Stockton has gone from the ocean to the top of the mountain. The guy we saw being dunked in the Atlantic off South Carolina's Kiawah Island as captain of America's victorious 1991 Ryder Cup...

BODY COUNT

Back in August, the day before Detroit was to play Dallas in an exhibition game in London, the Lions' practice, on an open field in Hyde Park, was interrupted by a huge dog careering through the...

MILLER'S TALE

OFFENSEEric Zeier, a junior quarterback at Georgia, completed 30 of 47 passes for lour touchdowns and an SEC-record 544 yards in a 54-24 victory over Southern Mississippi.