September 04, 1995 | Volume 83, Issue 10

Jones Versus the NFL

San Francisco is a cinch in the West, Dallas should prevail over resurgent Arizona in the East, and the wide-open Central is a three-team race from which Chicago will likely emerge triumphant

There they sit, the San Francisco 49ers and the Dallas Cowboys, glaring at each other across half a continent, matching each other in arrogance and grandeur, playing their own private Super Bowl...

Cowboys 13-3Cardinals 10-6Giants 8-8Eagles 7-9Redskins 3-13

Usually, there's nothing more dreary than the fourth quarter of an exhibition game, but did you happen to catch the late action in the Aug. 20 game between the and the Cardinals? There was some...

Bears 10-6Lions 9-7Packers 9-7Bucs 9-7Vikings 6-10

Jaycie PhelpsCINCINNATI

If you consider the a dynasty—and I do—then it's time to look at the historical question of why dynasties end. The Packers, the dynasty of the 1930s, were supplanted by the younger and tougher...

49ers 13-3Saints 9-7Falcons 6-10Rams 4-12Panthers 4-12

Wild-Card Round

Last-Minute Decisions

Bombs Away I. Red Sox catcher Mike Macfarlane's grand slam against the A's last Saturday was the 101st bases-loaded home run hit in the majors this season, breaking the record set in the...

"The scene was eerily familiar—a former football player, his estranged wife and a knife."

What little boy wouldn't want to grow up to be an athlete in a world filled with money and no rules to live by?LINNEA DANNA, NEW YORK CITY

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Readers were impressed with the on-field rushing of Indianapolis Colt running back Marshall Faulk (Babying Himself, July 24) and wished him well. But many were concerned that Faulk is also rushing...

Spurious George

WHO AND WHAT WERE UP OR DOWN LAST WEEK

Future Stock

Bob Hope once joked that seeing Tom Landry without headwear was "like seeing Tammy Faye Bakker without makeup." But no one who knows the third-winningest coach in NFL history and the league's most...

The photojournalism career of Alfred Eisenstaedt, who died of a heart attack last week at age 96, began at a resort in Bohemia in 1926. Vacationing there with his parents, the man who would go on...

At a card show in Anaheim, Calif., this Sunday, O.J. Simpson pal and sometime chauffeur Al (A.C.) Cowlings will charge $20 for an autographed photo of himself at the wheel of a white Ford Bronco.

Peter McNeeleyAlleged heavyweight boxer, five days after being knocked down twice in 89 seconds during his fight with Mike Tyson: "I'll be back."

Tiger Woods unleashed a full array of shots to win his second straight U.S. Amateur title

Michigan kicked off the 1995 season with a stunning last-second victory over Virginia

Texas fans are afraid to watch as the Rangers fight for a playoff spot

...or go with the union? That's the choice NBA players face as the '95-96 season hangs in the balance

Eighth-grader Jacques Fournier is a tough cookie in tournament competition

I'll tell you why I think the Cleveland Browns will represent the AFC in Super Bowl XXX: the anger factor. The Steelers loom as the big obstacle in this division, and last year Cleveland lost...

Browns 12-4Steelers 12-4Oilers 5-11Bengals 3-13Jaguars 2-14

Mike White, the new coach of the Oakland Raiders, who have returned to their original home after 13 years in Los Angeles, has worked the California coaching circuit exhaustively: Stanford and Cal,...

Raiders 11-5Chargers 10-6Broncos 8-8Chiefs 8-8Seahawks 7-9

Unknown veteran Jenny Lidback got her breakthrough win at the LPGA's anonymous major

In USGA circles, Tiger Woods has nothing on Hollis Stacy. Stacy won her first national championship, the U.S. Junior Girls, in 1969 at the age of 15, then successfully defended the title the next...

While the propriety of the Greg Norman-Mark McCumber incident was the No. 1 topic of conversation at the World Series, Lee Janzen's failure to be named to the U.S. Ryder Cup team also continued to...

Dave Marr, who captained the U.S. team in 1981, cut le chase when asked what he looked for in a Ryder Cup player. "You need finishers, finishers, finishers," said Marr. "Players who when they get...