December 09, 1996 | Volume 85, Issue 24

Mike SmithHAMPTON, VA.Smith, 55, football coach at Hampton High, became the winningest coach in Virginia high school football history with a 58-27 defeat of Deep Creek High. Smith, the 1995...

615Consecutive Kentucky regular-season basketball games attended by Wildcats fan Bob Wiggins, 68, before a mild heart attack forced him to miss Kentucky's appearance in last week's Great Alaska...

Miller's Mythology

Cookies don't make Ashley Dodson crumble. Ashley, 11, from Clarksville, Ind., won Nabisco's annual Oreo-stacking competition recently when she piled up a mouth-watering 24 cookies in 30 seconds....

Glenora Wine Cellars of New York has released Bobsled Red, a wine it says captures the essence of bobsledding and is intended as an accompaniment to pizza and Buffalo wings.

Matt Russell, Colorado middle linebacker, on the Buffs' being an 18-point underdog against Nebraska last Friday: "I don't keep track of the odds. If I did, I would have gone to Boston College."

JULY 27, 1964

Andrae Patterson led a rejuvenated Indiana to victory in the preseason NIT

As a football walk-on at Arizona, the author found his sense of humor very useful

Peter Forsberg and Joe Sakic of Colorado are the NHL's best center pairing since Gretzky and Messier

Bus driver Leo Randolph has steered clear of fame since his 1976 Olympic victory

With its ninth consecutive win, over tough Colorado, all-but-forgotten Nebraska got back in the title hunt

Tough practices are why UC Irvine's Ted Newland is the winningest coach ever

For three years Sydney's Michelle Martin has been the queen of the court

The grueling 24 Hours of Aspen is downhill racing at its longest and most insane

Shaq has no heart and no commitment to his team. It takes more than talent and a big contract to become a winner in the NBA.DUANE A. DENNY, WOLF POINT, MONT.

There's no secret to the NFC's 12-game winning streak in the Super Bowl: Those victorious teams were born to run. Until the Steelers out-rushed the Cowboys in last season's championship game, the...

Racing is a last refuge of the water buffalo in newly industrialized Thailand

Having once advised Army and Navy to surrender, the author salutes their football revival

Emmitt Smith answered his critics on Thanksgiving, but Dallas is still a puzzle

Dot Murphy has earned respect coaching receivers at Hinds Community College

A dedicated fan club won't rest until Nellie Fox is in the Hall of Fame

The Jaguars are making a playoff run behind the NFL's passing-yardage leader, Mark Brunell

BRONCOS at PACKERS

Denver Broncos fullback Aaron Craver, the battering ram who clears the way for league rushing leader Terrell Davis, started his NFL career with a clutch performance worthy of the Hall of Fame....

Dennis and Jeanne Alstott, the parents of Tampa Bay rookie fullback Mike Alstott, have traveled to every single sporting event their son has played in for the last 16 years. They started out...

Remember the Colts, that plucky bunch who came within a whisker of a Super Bowl appearance last season and this year burst out to a 4-0 start? What ever happened to them?

Blame the miserable weather for 15,062 no-shows at Ericsson Stadium, where the Panthers hosted the Bucs; blame a matchup of miserable teams for the smallest NFL crowd—26,310—ever in New Orleans,...

Tiger Woods had fans stoked for the Skins Game, but the competition failed to live up to its billing

Answer either true or false.

Identify the players described below.

Thanks to Tiger Woods, the era when players chose comfort over commitment has ended