November 01, 1993 | Volume 79, Issue 18

NFL: Sacked by Sullivan

The average Iraqi takes his soccer about as seriously as the average Hoosier takes his basketball. But apparently a sense of decorum does prevail.

New Jersey Net general manager Willis Reed (below), who made $300,000 per season at the height of his career, was told by an agent that the Nets' eight-year, $69 million offer to Derrick Coleman...

•Dave Wyman, 250-pound Denver Bronco linebacker, after getting burned on a 74-yard touchdown play by Los Angeles Raider receiver James Jett, a gold medal-winning sprinter at the 1992 Olympics:...

Thirteen World Series records were set or tied when the Blue Jays and the Phillies combined for 29 runs in Game 4. But as the score book marginalia show, not all of the magic moments in this game...

Less than 48 hours after he learned that threats had been made on his life, Philadelphia Phillie closer Mitch Williams was slinging the ball from all angles in a riotous game of catch with...

Paul Molitor had everything but the recognition that comes with a World Series triumph—and he found that in Toronto

Joe UngvaryCUYAHOGA FALLS, OHIOUngvary, 56, a public-information officer for Summit County, Ohio, won the U.S. senior amateur golf title with a record-setting 7-and-6 victory over Jerry Nelson in...

Led by standout wideout J.J. Stokes, UCLA has turned a slow start into a run for the roses

Perhaps the best drag racer ever, John Force is poised to win his third Funny Car championship

After winning the heart of his owner, Shelley Riley, Casual Lies nearly won the Kentucky Derby

American golfers have suffered a short supply of toughness over the past decade. While the practice tee has produced a long line of tall guys with pretty swings, predictable ball flights, placid...

Members of the Toronto Blue Jays and the Philadelphia Phillies weren't the only major league ballplayers competing for a championship last Saturday evening. As the World Series was unfolding at...

When he discovered his first gray hairs, he named them. Now Brian Boitano only bothers naming the graying tufts. He's 10 pounds heavier than he was when he won his gold medal at the 1988 Winter...

RUST BELT REVELRY

The results of SI's poll of 14 pro-personnel directors and scouts bode well for Dallas quarterback Troy Aikman. Our panel voted Aikman—whose contract is scheduled to be renegotiated in...

NO FAULTING FAULK

OFFENSETrent Dilfer, a junior at Fresno State, completed 21 of 34 passes for 456 yards and four TDs in a 48-45 win at BYU. He has not been intercepted in his last 158 attempts.

Jacquie Phelan's WOMBATS offers women mountain bikers tea and sympathy

Few market sports memorabilia as successfully as Paul Goldin and his son, Ken

Baseball AwardsJim Fregosi over Dusty Baker as National League Manager of the Year (INSIDE BASEBALL, Oct. 4)? You've got to be kidding. Sure, Fregosi deserves credit for leading the Phillies to...

The moment he learned from the television that Prairie Bayou had been "humanely destroyed" after breaking down in the Belmont Stakes last June, Dr. George Maylin picked up the phone at his home in...

Josie was running loose in her field again, as free-floating as the pollen in the drowsy wind, sailing and dipping from plank to post while kicking her prosthesis in the air.

David Dorfman turns jocks into performing dancers

Bob Love, once a Chicago Bull star performer, overcame a severe stutter to become a team spokesman

Susan Willmot was an owner of Play the King, a 6-year-old gelding who broke down at Pimlico in 1989 and was destroyed by lethal injection. When SI sought Willmot's permission to use photographs of...