March 02, 1998 | Volume 88, Issue 9

February 26, 1973

COLLEGE HOCKEY

Yale hockey ain't what it used to be. Though home games are still held in a splendid old whale-shaped building near the heart of campus and the audience still includes gray-haired men in tweed...

NHL clubs are spending lots of money looking for European talent—witness the 90 scouts who attended the six-nation junior tournament in Yaroslavl, Russia, last month—in part because U.S. colleges...

Mention Toronto to NBA players and they're not likely to discuss the team's new owners or recent player changes or miserable record. No, they will probably bring up a five-letter combination...

Brownout in Beantown

It turns out that veterans on the West team in the All-Star Game were bothered by Kobe Bryant's gunning. Karl Malone describes how Bryant waved off his screen to take on Michael Jordan one-on-one:...

The Soaring Rate of TradeLast week's flurry of deals before the trading deadline followed a trend that dates back to the 1995-96 season, when the latest collective bargaining agreement between the...

March 3New Jersey at New York Madison Square GardenThe surprising Nets, led by All-Star center Jayson. Williams and rookie phenom Keith Van Horn, are all the rage in Gotham. Even actor Bruce...

Jayson Williams is a student of the offensive rebound

When Bryce Drew, Indiana's Mr. Basketball of 1994, decided to attend Valparaiso instead of Notre Dame four years ago, conventional wisdom had it that Drew, a 6'3" guard, would disappear from the...

C.M. Newton, chairman of the NCAA Basketball Committee, held a teleconference last week and reminded the media that the committee esteems teams that are hot down the stretch. To which our...

Trans-America Athletic Conference FinalSaturday, Feb. 28If you like drama, conference championship games are hard to beat. In most cases the winners go to the NCAA tournament, the losers go home....

Grinnell's gunner set a Division III record with 77 points in a game

Four Years ago Jack Lipinski's family left him for a gold medal. His wife, Pat, and his only child, Tara, then 11, went to Delaware for the summer to take figure skating lessons from a hot new...

We all want to feel special when we win, and to have an excuse when we lose. Holding the Big Guy accountable for both conveniently satisfies all our needs.—DEAN HINITZ, Reno

Letters to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED should include the name, address and home telephone number of the writer. They may be mailed to The Editor, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, Time & Life Building, New York,...

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and CNN team up on the Internet to offer up-to-the-minute sports news. Check out Swimsuit '98 Extra!, including a complete portfolio of photos from the swimsuit issue, plus 50...

Spring training is for the old and the old at heart, for folks who like things the way they were. The rich men in plaid sport coats who used to own baseball teams understood this. Today a go-go...

•That somebody beam up skating commentator Scotty Hamilton so we never again hear him scream, "TRIPLE LUTZ! DOUBLE TOE LOOP!"

Harry Caray (?-1998)The Party's Over

3First picks in NBA drafts (Derrick Coleman, Joe Smith and Allen Iverson) on the roster of the Philadelphia 76ers, whose .327 winning percentage was the seventh worst in the NBA as of Sunday.

PEYTON MANNINGIf I'm spending millions on a player to build my franchise around, I don't want potential; I want reality. Unlike Ryan Leaf, Manning is a finished product, a grown-up with more...

College hoops junkies Took notice last week when the AP poll underwent another face-lift. Duke regained the top spot after North Carolina's 86-72 loss to N.C. State last Saturday. But does all the...

After the men's hockey team trashed two Olympic Village apartments, USOC director of public relations Mike Moran said his organization was "not embarrassed," that he doesn't "know why we would be...

MARK KREYFort Worth policeman, on the arrest of an Oklahoma City Blazers player for using his stick to smash a hole in the goal judge's booth during a Central Hockey League game: "It was highly...

Three years after Ohio University, located in Athens, registered Ohio as an official trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Ohio State filed a petition with that agency, saying that...

Marie Patrick, Salem, N.J.BasketballPatrick, a sophomore forward-center at Salem Community College, is fourth among the National Junior College Athletic Association's Division II women players in...

Departments

Saturday 2/28

Each of the following pairs comprise a basketball conference and a rock band. Which is which? Atlantic 10 and Matchbox 20. Son Volt and Sun Belt. Mid-Continent and Incontinent. That final one is a...

The were a daily celebration of the crazy, exhilarating spirit of men and women determined to fly—and often succeeding

Here's mud in your eyeAt the Tucson Rodeo, bull rider Trevor Walker ended up with a dirty deal.

Despite the loutish behavior of the U.S., the expulsion of a Swedish player and the favorites' early ouster, the answer is, Yes, this was a dream of an Olympic tournament

Goalie: Dominik Hasek, Czech RepublicAllowed six goals in six games and had two shutouts, including the 1-0 dandy against Russia in the final. His shoot-out saves against Canada burnished his...

A spirited, close knit and talented U.S. women's team showed its mettle by defeating favored Canada to win the sport's first Games championship

In addition to enriching John Randle (93), Dana Stubblefield and Bryce Paup, NFL owners padded the bank accounts of a lot of good but not star players during the early stages of free agency....

With traded players like Kenny Anderson balking at reporting to their new clubs, general managers are left to ponder their options

When the expansion Diamondbacks threw $34 million at shortstop Jay Bell, they knew just what they were getting—the antithesis of a Baseball Jerk

Just how good is Tennessee? Let's forget for the moment that the Lady Vols have played most of their tough games at home and that the SEC is not as powerful as it was in the past. Let's put aside...

Rumors of WarTrouble in the Persian Gulf sends golfers scrambling

Yip(e)s! Tom Watson is statistically the second-best putter on Tour, behind David Toms.

What's the penalty for wearing steel spikes these days? Do they hang your shoes from the grillroom ceiling and tell everyone you ruined the course? Do you have to do community service—100 hours of...

David Duval recovered just in time to give Tucson's Tour stop a big-time send-off

Crabby Grass: Turf watchers say California's record rainfall has made the rough at San Francisco's Olympic Club thicker than ever. "It's going to be brutal by June," says Olympic pro Jim Lucius....

If you tee off in Tunisia or take a Malaysian mulligan, you may be part of Ron Fream's grand design. Fream (above) runs Golfplan, a Santa Rosa, Calif.-based firm that has planted more than 150...

What do these players have in common?

On the PGA Tour, players either burn it up at the start or fizzle at the finish

"I couldn't find a place to practice" isn't as good an excuse as it used to be, not with the number of driving ranges in the U.S. increasing by almost 25% in the past year, from 2,168 to 2,699....

Some players who made their names on the regular Tour win right away as Seniors. Others, like Larry Nelson, winner of last week's American Express Invitational, need more time. Here's how many...

52Weeks Nick Faldo has gone without winning a tournament. The three-time Masters champion's last victory came at the 1997 Nissan Open.

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