April 14, 1997 | Volume 86, Issue 15

Christl HagerSQUAW VALLEY, CALIF.Hager, a senior skier at Utah, won her third NCAA women's giant slalom crown by beating Katherine Davenport of Colorado by .08 of a second over two runs at Stowe,...

3,018Dollars per game center Brian Williams will receive for the rest of the season and the playoffs from the Chicago Bulls, with whom he signed as a free agent on April 2.

Apparel adorned with minor league logos is racking up major-league sales. The best-selling items bear these logos:

While traveling the NASCAR circuit, driver Kyle Petty, the son of King Richard, brings along his own espresso machine.

Charles Barkley Houston Rockets forward, on the effects of aging on his 34-year-old body: "I used to be a Chippendale. Now I'm a Clydesdale."

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This Week in Baseball, Syndicated, check weekend television listings

Shawn Kemp's chronic tardiness has thrown the SuperSonics into a tailspin, but the enigmatic superstar swears it won't happen again

A rejuvenated Mike Ditka was in midseason form as he coached his first practice with the Saints

When U.S. Olympic basketball star Sheryl Swoopes, a candidate to grace the inaugural cover of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED WOMEN|SPORT, announced in January that she was pregnant, some SI staffers were...

Saturday 4/12HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALLWBCA All-America GameTwenty of the nation's top high school girls basketball players—including Tennessee-bound, Naismith Player of the Year Tamika Catchings—meet...

ESPN's enhanced baseball score box (not to be confused with the network's new, indecipherable in-game box score) is another excess of an info-mad age. This year the box in the upper left-hand...

The decision to crown champions in several divisions is another sign that we are lowering the standards held as measures of success.JIM BATMAN, EL CAJON, CALIF.

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Miami will be entering the playoffs as Pat Riley's best road team ever

Kevin Mitchell and Deion return in style Spring flings Home run binge by Larry Walker

Everything is deluxe at the new Texas Motor Speedway—except the track

Pistons forward Otis Thorpe is one of the league's hardest-working and most unselfish players—but also one of its most thin-skinned

FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 31-APRIL 16

Dennis Rodman and John Stockton would seem to be about as different as two human beings—much less two basketball players—could be. But according to our panel of 29 NBA players, coaches and...

As a tribute to the longest-suffering NBA player of the 1990s, this year's Western Conference playoffs should be renamed the West Playoffs. After seven seasons of watching from home, Timberwolves...

Gregg Popovich the Spurs' coach-G.M., denies reports that he's looking to rejoin former boss and current Mavericks G.M. Don Nelson by taking the Dallas coaching job next season. "I'm not going...

Magic center Rony Seikaly is one of the NBA's most cosmopolitan players. Born in Beirut and raised in Athens, he has traveled all over the world—often in search of a sunny beach. Here are his...

0Sorry, Brad, but no player has ever followed a victory in the final Tour event before the Masters by winning a green jacket.

ANOTHER TAKE ON THE HEADLINES

Every time I turn on the television to watch golf, I think of the career I never had. The green fairways and gleaming white sand remind me of the game to which I devoted heart and soul for 13...

Nothing went as expected when Gil Morgan won his first major on the Senior tour

Brad Faxon picked a good time to come up big with his short game