April 24, 1995 | Volume 82, Issue 16

Paul PierceINGLEWOOD, CALIF.Paul, a senior guard-forward at Inglewood High, averaged 27 points and 11 rebounds in 1994-95 and was named state Player of the Year. He had 28 points in the McDonald's...

Air's Apparent

New York Knick coach Pat Riley told New York magazine the best thing about his job was "the unbelievably dignified and objective approach of the New York media."

Steve RobinsonTulsa basketball coach, on whether he had a schoolboy point guard stashed, as was rumored, in his back pocket: "If I do, he's too small to play for Tulsa."

Talkin Man won the Wood and boldly declared himself a Derby favorite

Last season the New York Rangers made history by winning the Stanley Cup. This year they may not even make the playoffs

We're not surprised to hear that the last thing Linda Verigan wants to do when she gets home from work is cheek her mailbox. "I have absolutely no interest in the mail," she says. "I just ask my...

Early on Grant Hill was the leading candidate in the race for Rookie of the Year. But with election day falling this week—media members must cast their votes by Friday, April 21—the contest has...

When Terry Riordan gives a thumbnail version of his life, he fails to relate anything suggesting that he might become the leading goal-scorer on the nation's top-rated college lacrosse team, the...

The jacked-up 4 X 4 is cruising the streets of San Jose, and country music blares from the stereo speakers. In the passenger seat, after a grueling workout, Jeff Friesen, the star forward for the...

Softballs are not so soft anymore. Nor, as it turns out, are softball players. "I was up to bat in an exhibition game last summer, and the pitcher hit me," says Amy Chellevold, the University of...

Ballplayers have never been one of North Dakota's chief exports. Gun-slingers, O.K. Painted-canyon postcards, sure. But no one would call the state a field of dreams—at least not until Darin...

The 1995 draft will roll back the clock, back to a simpler time when you picked a guy because you needed him, when the "best available athlete" was someone in the Olympics and a "projection" was...

Preemptive Strike?

Ballroom dancing has as much right to be in the Olympics as, say, rhythmic gymnastics

How appropriate that baseball announced its return on April Fools' weekend.RON BOSTWICK, STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, COLO.

Believe it or not, there is more to this college season than Tiger Woods

Ben Crenshaw's humility and generosity have seen him through good times and bad