August 14, 1995 | Volume 83, Issue 7

Many who still cherish values such as good manners, tradition and appropriateness hold Tom Watson in high esteem.FRANK TILTON, SAVANNAH

You're an NBA general manager with an unlimited budget and a coaching vacancy. Which of two available championship clipboard carriers do you hire, Chuck Daly or Pat Riley? We posed that question...

The Maine Supreme Court recently ruled unanimously that the Fort Kent Golf Club must pay a woman $40,000 because a ball she struck caromed off an abandoned railroad track on the course and broke...

Sparky AndersonDetroit Tiger manager, addressing his coaching staff on the woeful state of the team's pitching: "You don't have enough smarts to straighten this out. This is unstraightable."

How does a three-time Cy Young Award winner like Maddux pitch to a three-time MVP like Barry Bonds? Very carefully.

In his 18-year career with the Cleveland Indians, Bob Feller never pitched on AstroTurf or made a grueling West Coast road trip, but then he never faced a weak-hitting expansion team, either. The...

With a shout heard round the Worlds, Donovan Bailey declared himself the fastest man on the planet

Rookie J.J. Stokes is preparing to join Jerry Rice in the San Francisco 49er lineup—and to claim a place in the team's pantheon of stellar receivers

When San Francisco native Kimberly Wong arrived in New York City in June to begin working in the research department, it was the first time that she had set foot in the Big Apple. Fellow research...

Ready to Leap?

Doubling Their Pleasure.Albert Belle hit two homers against the Twins on Aug. 2, becoming the eighth Indian to hit two in a game this season. That's one shy of the major league record held by the...

Deon Figures's answer is as chilling as the story about his off-season gunshot wound. Do you have any idea, the third-year Pittsburgh Steeler cornerback is asked, why someone you don't know would...

"Put six people in a lifeboat and they'll get along splendidly. Put those same six people on a luxury yacht and they'll fight over who has to serve the drinks."

Mike SheppardWEST ORANGE, N.J.

While a shoot-out at the Buick Open was expected, Woody Austin's belated star turn caught everyone by surprise

Organizers of the $3.65 million World Championship of Golf learned a costly lesson about the hazards of match play

Perched on a sandhill of native grasses, Herb Kohler watched last week as Corey Pavin and Paul Azinger got prematurely flushed out of the Andersen Consulting World Championship of Golf. It looked...

A victory in Canada brings down the curtain on one of the most remarkable feats in the history of sports

"Shoal Creek helped set golf free from its most uncomfortable contradiction"