October 30, 1995 | Volume 83, Issue 19

Couldn't we have a little bit of praise for the victorious European team playing in the U.S. on a U.S. Open course?IAN WILLIAMSON, INDIANAPOLIS

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At 52, Butkus Is Still Feared

Despite the optimism surrounding Major League Soccer and the astounding news that Oxford University has extended an invitation for troubled superstar Diego Maradona to lecture, the soccer world...

After the Wisbech Town soccer team didn't provide postmatch sandwiches for its opponent, England's Jewson Eastern Counties League suspended the team for not explaining its "low standards in...

Billy PayneThe ACOG president, minutes after his comment that the Games cannot get any bigger without losing their quality: "The Game are bigger than we thought by about 400 percent."

Rarely is a defensive back's infraction as clearly unmasked as Bengal Leonard Wheeler's grab of Steeler Andre Hastings's cage during Cincy's 27-9 victory last Thursday.

The Braves won Games 1 and 2 when their pitchers laid low the Indians' vaunted hitters

One day in 1930 Merv Hyman marched into the editorial offices of The Press, a weekly in Englewood, N.J., his hometown, and offered to become sports editor. The boss found this an offer he could...

Backup quarterback Elvis Grbac played like an All-Pro as the 49ers rolled over the Rams

Quarterback Ron Powlus redeemed his fading reputation, and Notre Dame revived itself, with a convincing upset of Southern Cal

Forty-year-old Bob Butara is a legend in the U.S. Flag and Touch league

Before a hip injury in 1991 that would eventually end his playing career, Jackson was a ubiquitous presence on the sporting scene. The nation saw him hitting a homer at the '89 All-Star Game as a...

Sam's Army wants to train American spectators to be world-class fans

Every summer thousands of cyclists revel in riding en masse across Iowa

At venerable Eton, boys are toughened by the brutal, incomprehensible Wall Game

In '55 a black all-star team was sidelined by a racial boycott in South Carolina

John GillenOWATONNA, MINN.

Penobscot tribe member Louis Sockalexis inspired Cleveland's nickname

Jayhawks Take Flight

OffenseUCLA junior tailback Karim Abdul-Jabbar ran for 261 yards and four TDs on 42 carries in a 42-28 win over Stanford. Karim—who, like basketball's Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, wears number 33—is sixth...

"If Northwestern's season has been hard to believe, it hasn't been hard to enjoy."

Curtis Strange can't escape the nightmare memories of his Ryder Cup collapse

Even the armadillos at La Cantera Golf Club outside San Antonio knew what the Texas Open was all about. As the last full-field event of the PGA Tour season, it was time to strap on the armor and...

No sooner had Lanny Wadkins announced his captain's picks for the U.S. Ryder Cup team than the question was first asked: How could you leave Lee Janzen off the team? In the wake of Curtis...

The Trouble with Tiger

Although the penalties professional golfers routinely call on themselves are often made public because they shed a positive light on the game and its players, incidents of cheating seldom make it...

They Do; Bucs Don't

The guitar is driving Henry Thomas nuts. The Detroit Lions' 6'2", 277-pound defensive tackle just can't get the hang of playing it, and that is bugging him something fierce. Everything else in his...