April 03, 1995 | Volume 82, Issue 13

Dickie Fleisher plays championship Ping-Pong and concert harp with equal finesse

A daring troupe in California mixes dance, gymnastics and rock climbing

Hal O'Leary helps the disabled charge down slopes and change their lives

Deworski OdomPHILADELPHIADeworski, a senior at Overbrook High, set three U.S. high school records during the National Scholastic Indoor Track and Field Championships. He established marks in the...

Joe Norris was an 18-year-old when he bowled his first 300 game. Calvin Coolidge was in the White House, and at that time, no one younger had ever rolled a sanctioned perfect game. Norris (left,...

The choice of Devil Rays as the nickname of Tampa Bay's new baseball franchise angered many local fans, who are complaining that ray spelled backward (yar) is the name of a satanic canine.

Nick KypreosNew York Ranger forward, on what he planned to do during his team's recent visit to the White House: "I want to find out who this FICA guy is and how come he's taking so much of my money."

The day before last Saturday's NCAA West Regional final, a visibly nervous Tyus Edney paced a darkened corridor of the Oakland Coliseum Arena. Time was running out on Edney, UCLA's point guard,...

North Carolina may have a reputation as the IBM of college basketball—the buttoned-down Big Blue of the hoops scene—but there is one Tar Heel free spirit who is excited about going to Seattle for...

No one else in college basketball has a more complete game than Stackhouse. He could start for any NBA team right now.WESLEY BURRIS, ALBEMARLE, N.C.

When Randy Rutherford was a kid in Broken Bow, Okla., which should not be confused with Broken Arrow, Okla., he and his five brothers played baseball on Saturday afternoons in their backyard near...

College basketball has the Big East, the Big Sky, the Big Ten, the Big Eight and, now, the Big Three. It's not a small conference but a small forward, Arkansas's Scotty Thurman, a pigeon-toed,...

Lee Janzen triumphed at The Players Championship at Sawgrass, and in cyberspace

In any color, judo master and film stuntman Gene LeBell is one hard hombre

Despite his asthma, Tom Dolan of Michigan blew away the NCAA field

Gambling is the dirty little secret on college campuses, where it's rampant and prospering. reveals how easy it is for students to bet with a bookie, become consumed with wagering and get over...

A 22-year-old senior at the University of Georgia, whom we'll call Sonny Martin, has been betting on football and basketball games with a campus bookmaker for three years. What follows is a...

It's five o'clock on a drab Friday afternoon in Blooming-ton, Ind., when John, an Indiana University senior, casually suggests to his friends A.J. and Bill, two juniors, that they take a road...

While only four states—Montana, Nevada, North Dakota and Oregon—allow some form of legalized sports gambling, casinos are opening around the country faster than Starbucks Coffee shops, moving far...

A veteran U.S. coach brings Catholics and Protestants together in Belfast

Go North, Young Men

Argentina built its Pan Am Games success on the basics: beef, beer and bed by dawn

Little-known Nanci Bowen stunned everyone, even herself, by winning the Dinah Shore

Byron Nelson, who at times seems to hail from two places, was right at home in Durham, winning his fourth straight

Pro golfers are rarely satisfied with how they've played. But no one, not even Nick Faldo, Complains as often as Stephen and Mark Pullan, the only identical twins currently playing professional golf.

PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem has earned high marks in his first year on the job