September 25, 1995 | Volume 83, Issue 13

Whoever thought baseball could die twice in the same year?LAURIE RUSSO, NEW YORK CITY

Readers were divided over our story about the midseason turnaround of the New York Yankees (Rebirth in the Bronx, Aug. 14). John Wadle of Denver wrote that Gerry Callahan's article "showed a team...

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Uncovering the Masked Men

One hundred twenty copies of the police report detailing the drunk-and-disorderly conduct that led to the arrest of former Michigan coach Gary Moeller were sold, at $15 each, during the first...

David LettermanOn the Nov. 4 fight between Mike Tyson and Buster Mathis that will he broadcast on Fox: "It will be part of a three-minute break during 'The Simpsons.' "

The world chess championship between Garry Kasparov (left) and challenger Viswanathan Anand got started at New York's World Trade Center without either player getting a victory in the first four...

As the points piled up on an unreal day in college football, Florida swamped Tennessee in the season's best action to date

Warrick Dunn and Florida State rolled to a team-record 77 points

Nebraska players charged with crimes have a steadfast ally in the man who runs the program, Tom Osborne

Maybe not. After all, the exemplary Ernie Banks, like many big-name players today, never saw the light of postseason play

When we need a story on a 600-pound sumo wrestler or Don King's hair, a cry of "Franz Lidz!" goes up in our offices. Lidz is the senior writer whose treatments of such arcane topics—and a lot of...

By once again beating Al Davis's Raiders, the Chiefs felt they got their just deserts

It wasn't a tantrum. It was a turning point. When San Francisco 49er coach George Seifert yanked quarterback Steve Young during a loss to the Philadelphia Eagles last season, Young's subsequent...

Obea MoorePASADENAObea, 16, set two meet records at the USA Track & Field National Junior Olympics. He won the 200- and 400-meter dashes in 21.10 and 45.99, respectively. He also established...

The Jets Lag

Rodney Hampton of the Giants has a streak of four straight 1,000-yard rushing seasons, an achievement only four other active backs in NFL history can match. Yet a poor rushing game is stunting the...

Wild, Wild SEC West

OffenseColorado junior quarterback Koy Detmer threw for 426 yards in just over two quarters of a 66-14 rout of Northeast Louisiana.

Red Sox face themselves in World Series; lose

Their experience with adult males had not been good, so at first the kids at the YWCA Transitional Housing Program in St. Paul were intimidated, even frightened, by Randall McDaniel, the Vikings'...