May 26, 1997 | Volume 86, Issue 21

Mary Slaney's disputed drug test proves one thing: Track and field isn't making the grade

Tom GoughFAIRFAX, CALIF.Gough, a 25-year-old Marine corporal, broke seven American senior records and had a total lift of 826½ pounds in the 218¼-pound class to win his third consecutive national...

1,200,000Average payroll, in dollars, of major league teams in 1976, the first year of free agency.

The Celtics may be in need of an outsized overhaul—starting, say, with two of the top six picks in the 1997 draft and a new coach worth $50 million—but that hasn't stopped the old mystique from...

Not so long ago an athlete letting fly with a middle finger (or two) was sure to ruffle feathers. Lately, this ornithological gesture scarcely raises eyebrows. In the last two weeks alone we've...

The winner of the Michael Johnson-Donovan Bailey 150-meter showdown on June 1 in Toronto will go home with not only the title of World's Fastest Human but also a million bucks—not bad for about 14...

Midway through her attempt to become the first person to swim from Cuba to the U.S., 22-year-old Susie Maroney confronted her biggest obstacle: darkness. "Seconds become hours; minutes become...

A high school senior passes on her prom to make a run at drag-racing history

Though finally conceding the correctness of tests taken at the 1995 French Open that showed traces of cocaine in their systems, tennis players Mats Wilander and Karel Novacek said they had...

Phil GarnerMilwaukee Brewers manager, on Seattle Mariners fireballing lefthander Randy Johnson, who beat Milwaukee despite throwing a wild pitch, hitting two batters and striking out only three:...

The Jazz's Bryon Russell is making fans take notice with his dazzling postseason play

JANUARY 31, 1966

Saturday 5/24

From as far back as 1969, when Charlie Brown misspelled the word beagle in A Boy named Charlie Brown, spelling has been anathema ("Anathema, a-n-a-t-h-e-m-a, anathema") to television. But the...

Silver Charm won the Preakness by a head and closed in on racing's most coveted sweep

Tiger Woods's performance at the Masters was a splendid black-Thai affair.GENE DRYDEN, SARASOTA, FLA.

Lakers to Van Exel: Get with the program, Indiana jones for Mullin?, Jackson may sit rather than split

Mary Hafeman has gone where few women have gone before: to a head pro's job at a major resort

Daly to Sign With Callaway

For the last six months 40-year-old Nancy Lopez has been on a fitness crusade. With the help of trainer Leah Vann, Lopez has shed 40 pounds and is down to 150. That's a lot to lose for somebody...

•U.S. OPENS ON TV: There will be 27 hours of coverage from Congressional next month. The women will get 14 hours at Pumpkin Ridge.

1Canadians among the 39 players earning cards at last week's Canadian tour Q school, won by Grant Masson of the U.S. with a record 22-under-par 265.

Tiger Woods didn't have his best game at the Byron Nelson Classic, so he had to grind his way to another Tour victory

Dear John,

Chris Johnson left no doubt that she's a big-time player with her victory at the LPGA Championship