May 25, 1998 | Volume 88, Issue 21

Foyt's Boat Is In

Greg Moore is CART's youngest three-time winner and its points leader

10The number of racing movies in various stages of production, including a Formula One film to star Sylvester Stallone, a NASCAR action-romance and a feature-length version of the cartoon show...

As Right As Reyna

Spoon-Bending psychic Uri Geller, an Israeli who now lives near London, has put his supernatural powers to work for England's team. He says that last month he planted "magic crystals" on the field...

Thank you, graduates. Please be seated. It's an honor to address the college athletes who are going on to the pros this year. If I may, I'd like to offer just a few pieces of advice.

Bryant isn't the next Michael Jordan or Magic Johnson; he's the first Kobe Bryant.—Ashley Neameyer, Rolla, N. Dak.

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,...

April 26, 1976

We have a winner. All you guys looking to be James Dean or John Belushi can retire the act. The sweepstakes of self-destruction is now over, the contest for talent squandered is closed. So all you...

•That overweight Little League pitchers draw hope from the masterful performances of those big league big boys, David Wells and Kerry Wood.

200,000Yearly savings, in dollars, as a consequence of the Dodgers' closing their executive dining room, a corporate perk offered continuously since the franchise's days in Brooklyn.

MICHAEL OLOWOKANDILogic dictates that the Clippers trade the pick, but they would probably swap it to reacquire Stanley Roberts. They should take Olowokandi, a raw talent from England who...

Marion Jones's 10.7l-second 100-meter dash last week in Chengdu, China, electrified the world of track and field. No, it wasn't a world record—it was simply within shouting distance of the mark,...

If you believe the stories, no roundballer ever performed more magic on the playground than Earl Manigault (right), who died last week at age 53 of heart failure. Considered by some experts to be...

A California construction company is building houses that include a room known as the Fort, a "harmless getaway," as the company's brochure puts it, for men "to hang out, smoke cigars, watch...

DEL HARRISLakers coach, expanding on forward Robert Horry's description of L.A.'s attack in Game I against Utah as a "Wizard of Oz offense" with no heart, no brains and no courage: "Yeah, and no...

Saturday 5/23Yankees at Red SoxDeep Impact. Godzilla. Reggie Miller. Burying New York has supplanted baseball as America's pastime. Except when it comes to the Yankees, whose record (28-9 through...

He never took a shift off. ESPN hockey commentator Gary Thorne was every bit as entertaining and energetic during the 92nd minute of the May 12 double-overtime thriller between the Blues and the...

Departments

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and CNN team up on the Internet to offer up-to-the-minute sports news and stats. This week stay on track with complete coverage of the Indianapolis 500. And follow all the...

Melanie Kosoff, Sumner, Wash.WeightliftingKosoff, 23, a gymnastics coach, won a women's national title for the second straight year, this time in the 53-kilogram class. She established two U.S....

Pitcher PerfectThe last delivery that the Yankees' David Wells threw to the last Twins batter he faced, Pat Meares, resulted in the fly-out that sealed Wells's unblemished performance (page 52).

The top trades in baseball history in terms of the marquee value of the players on both sides of the deal:

Firing a wicked fastball and a snapping curve, the Yankees' David Wells retired 27 straight Twins to complete only the 13th perfect game this century

Yes, he pops lots of pills and he works out rigorously, but in 10 NFL seasons, Bill Romanowski has 914 tackles and zero games missed. Maybe he's on to something. Here's a look at Romo's daily...

With ageless guard John Stockton executing sagely on offense and pestering the Lakers to distraction on defense, the Jazz jumped to a 2-0 lead in the West finals

After his improbable victory in the Preakness, only the Belmont Stakes stands between Real Quiet and the first Triple Crown in two decades

Thanks to extraordinary role players such as Slava Kozlov, defending Stanley Cup champion Detroit remained the team to beat

BASEBALL

In the first inning of a May 12 game in Tampa Bay, Indians second baseman David Bell fielded a double play grounder and flipped the ball to shortstop Omar Vizquel, who stepped on second—but...

Doug Bochtler, the Tigers' righthanded reliever, is also the team barber and resident magician. He does about seven haircuts a week, and his clients range from manager Buddy Bell to his teammates'...

The world champion Marlins' fire sale is nothing new to baseball

Godzilla Power

When Blues right wing Brett Hull is at the top of his game, he gets lots of shots and scores regularly. But in St. Louis's second-round series against the Red Wings, which Detroit led 3-2 at...

MAY 25, 1994.RANGERS VS. DEVILS

The Hornets' Nest

Dismiss all that talk of Sonics coach George Karl's taking the Nuggets job. Sources close to Karl say he's not interested, and word out of Denver is that general manager Dan Issel is leaning...

Fans and even Tour pros circle the old man's cart, jostling for a look at golf nobility. "Everybody thanks me for being here, even the players," an amused Byron Nelson said last week at the GTE...

Recovered from an emotional low, Thomas Bjorn aims for a career high

Switch-putter Notah Begay went lower than low on the Nike tour

Puckish Jerry Kelly traded his skates for golf spikes

Golf is all about decision-making. Choose a club, make a swing and take the consequences. The feedback is immediate. In the real world, however, things can get more complicated.

Like a Hole In the Head: While practicing at Iowa City's Finkbine Golf Course, supermarket manager Christian Owen (below) paid special attention to the 8th hole, where a hole in one during a...

What do these players have in common?

There was a rare Monty sighting at last week's Benson & Hedges International Open in Thame, England. The winner of the last five Orders of Merit graced the European tour for only the second...

The European tour lacks big names but not serious games

Se Ri Pak went five months without finishing better than 11th in an LPGA event, but her first top 10 showing was a win in a major. Pak's victory at last week's LPGA Championship invites comparison...

European players have won seven of the last II Masters but are 0 for 27 in the U.S. Open since Tony Jacklin's triumph in 1970 at Hazeltine. Here are the best Euro finishers in the '90s.

258Senior events played since Larry Ziegler, the winner at last week's Saint Luke's Classic, had won a tournament.

PGA TourTurning Tour Pros Into Alley FightersThe MasterCard Colonial is that rare Tour event in which the fame of the host course rivals that of the players. Forever linked with five-time winner...

Olympic-Sized Pool of VolunteersMore than 3,500 unpaid workers will spend 70,000 person-hours to help stage the 98th U.S. Open on June 18-21 at San Francisco's Olympic Club. Volunteers serve on 52...

How Sweet It WasClayton (Candy Man) Heafner was known for his lumpy physique and the fattening job he had held in a Linville, N.C., candy factory. He was also celebrated for his plainspoken ways....

The men's Hall of Fame should be as tough to get into as the women's