February 02, 1998 | Volume 88, Issue 4

The wrestling rules that should prevent such tragedies are ignored, while larger revenue sports get the attention they need to keep them clean.TODD M. BARTER, WOOLWICH, MAINE

Many observers say the neutral zone trap ruins the game and denies star players the chance to show their skills. But there are ways to get around that stifling defensive system. To beat the trap a...

John Elway discovered that being a winner in the Super Bowl is hard to handle too

Amanda BergeronPOLAND, MAINEAmanda, a freshman at Westbrook High, won the girls' national junior championship one-hour race walk by covering 8,865 meters in the allotted time. Second-place...

10 Percentage of NBA All-Star starters who can't legally order alcohol, now that the Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant, 19, has become the youngest starter ever.

When Canadian Football League star DOUG FLUTIE last week signed an incentive-laden contract with the Buffalo Bills that could be worth $5 million, he proclaimed, "It is not about money." That may...

The U.S. Postal Service has unveiled the first sports stamps (covering the years 1900 to 1920) in its Celebrate the Century series. Honorees from later decades will be chosen by a public vote.

Among the gewgaws vying for "sports product of the year" next week at The Super Show in Atlanta is CounterSTRIKE, a set of handheld weights for jogging and power-walking that are equipped with...

Jayson Williams New Jersey Nets center, on the distance his friends were from celebrity row at courtside in Madison Square Garden for a recent Nets—New York Knicks game, despite his having bought...

Terrell Davis decoyed and destroyed the Packers defense, giving Green Bay a migraine of its own

In a game that demanded perfection, Brett Favre was good, but not good enough

The Broncos were determined not to let LeRoy Butler stop them—and they succeeded

Serena and Venus Williams cut up some top foes—and did some cutting up themselves—in Australia

Jan. 30, 1984

Hermann Maier of Austria, a mason turned speed demon, is tearing up the circuit like no one in years

The legal drug of choice in the NHL is sudafed—not for cold relief, but for the on-ice boost it offers

Saturday 1/31

Spice Girls or ice girls? It's your choice. Either see Spiceworld'at the movies or watch 1994 Olympic figure skaters Nancy Kerrigan (Victim Ice) and Tonya Harding (Lead Pipe Ice) in a joint...

Potent yet understated, the Grizzlies' Shareef Abdur-Rahim is the best NBA player you never see

Hard Lessons

Coach Phil Jackson sent Dennis Rodman home to Chicago last Friday after Rodman missed the Bulls' morning shootaround in New Jersey, saying Rodman was "in no condition to play" against the Nets...

After the league's scoring average dipped to 96.9 points last season, the lowest since the advent of the shot clock in 1954-55, the rules committee made modifications in an attempt to give...

Air Jordan meets Air Apparent—Lakers guard Kobe Bryant—in a matchup of title contenders. In their first encounter, a 104-83 Bulls rout over Shaq-less L.A. on Dec. 17 in Chicago, Michael Jordan...

For Nine years Pacers center Rik Smits has battled inflamed nerves on the bottoms of both feet. Smits says that the scar tissue from two operations compounds the pain and that he has considered...

It is no small task, when you are 7'3", to find a person to measure yourself against. Cavaliers center Zydrunas Ilgauskas (ZHEE-drew-nus ill-GAUS-kus) encountered that special someone in his NBA...

If this were college football, North Carolina might have moved up and taken the No. 1 seed in the East Regional after its 103-55 blowout of 20th-ranked Florida State last Saturday. But blessedly,...

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