August 01, 1994 | Volume 81, Issue 5

Every big league outfit needs scouts and a farm system, and our intern program is SI's way of uncovering and developing editorial talent. Each year we give a half dozen collegians or recent...

...former Cowboy coach Jimmy Johnson is soaking up the sun and (who can blame him?) is in no hurry to return to the NFL

The players, dead set against the owners' demand for a salary cap, are on the brink of a walkout that could jeopardize the World Series

Patty Sheehan won a second Women's U.S. Open as Helen Alfredsson self-destructed

As evidenced by a strong showing at the Bislett Games, Bob Kennedy may be the best U.S. distance man in a decade

"Instead of O.J., I would have preferred a cover photo of the dedicated athletes Gary Smith wrote of—the 14 record-breaking milers."LEWIS G. BLOOM, OLYMPIA, WASH.

Jack Clark believes that struggles and hardships have taught him more than success ever will. One of baseball's most feared power hitters in the mid-1980s, Clark walloped 340 home runs in his...

She's big. She's had. She's obnoxious and caustic. A listener calls her Mother, and she answers, "Yes, my child." She chastises, coos, interviews and spews. She's half cranky, half funny. She's...

To his new employer, the New York Jets, Tony Meola brought no baggage. Literally. On Sunday, as the Jets opened training camp in Hempstead, N.Y., their other kickers and punters lugged around...

Nicole DygertEAST ROCHESTER, N.Y.Nicole, 16, won the gold medal in women's épée at the U.S. Olympic Festival with a 5-4, 5-0 upset of top-seeded Laura Maskell, 36, of Portland. Earlier in the year...

The Buc Stops Here

No Free Passes. Sunday marked the first anniversary of the last base on balls—an intentional walk, in fact—received by Phillie infielder Kim Batiste. Fittingly, Batiste was not awarded a base on...

With a baseball strike looming, this Everyfan keeps playing—and hoping

The Keenan Affair

The title sponsor of this month's Chicago Triathlon is Mrs. T's pierogies, the world's largest maker of the calorie-laden stuffed-dough concoctions.

Davey JohnsonCincinnati Red manager, on Red reliever Rob Dibble: "I tell him something, and it goes in one ear, hits something hard and bounces back out."