June 01, 1998 | Volume 88, Issue 22

Elway's Dilemma

Joe Mack is laying the groundwork in Cleveland, but for how long?

Postconcussion syndrome altered Harry Carson's path

Every now and then, just when you're ready to burn your Topps, trash your Rawlings and melt your Mr. Coffee, baseball finds a peach-fuzzed kid to remind you why you loved the game in the first place.

April 29, 1974

The words athlete and role model are drifting further and further apart.—ANDREW THOMPSON, Richmond

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,...

We don't want to cause a panic, but for the sake of the public welfare we think you should know: The end is coming. No, not of the NHL playoffs; that's still a ways down the road. We mean of the...

•That, after building a Lakers team that got to the brink of the NBA Finals, vice president Jerry West find an owner who appreciates him.

42Batters struck out by Kristy Goodrich of Lordstown (Ohio) High in a 21-inning fast-pitch Softball game against Bristol High.

YESPitchers who deliver discordant chin music should be punished—by the league, not by vigilantes from the opposing team's dugout. Bench-clearing brawls raise the likelihood of injuries to players...

This season the NHL—never known for a baseball-like obsession with numbers—began keeping track of eight new statistics. Sure, these figures give puckheads something to argue about and...

At least 16 New York City high school coaches in various sports are alleged to have purchased fake first-aid and CPR certificates (certification is required of all coaches) from another city coach.

MARIO ZAGALLOCoach of Brazil's World Cup soccer squad, when asked what he felt about a ban on players' wives and girlfriends from team accommodations during the tournament: "I'm in favor of sex...

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SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and CNN team up on the Internet to offer up-to-the-minute sports news. Stay on top of the action at the French Open with complete stats and results. And SI's Phil Taylor and...

At 24, .500 hitter Frank Beckhorn doesn't tempt scouts

There are no Summer Olympics this year, so for many sports fans, sitting through a Michael Johnson soft-drink commercial is probably what passes for paying attention to track and field. But with...

Forget the pageantry at Pimlico—here's Preakness viewing with true grime

No player or coach escapes NBC roving inquisitor Jim Gray, if he can help it

Every classroom had one: a kid huddled at his desk with a transistor radio surreptitiously plugged into his ear, trying to tune in to an afternoon game. Transistors—and, for that matter, daytime...

The Jimmy Fund began in 1948 with a hospital visit by the Boston Braves

Heidi Seibold, Santa Monica, Calif.JudoSeibold, a senior at Reed College in Portland, won a women's collegiate title for the fourth time in four years, this time in the 70-kg weight division. An...

Barring any last-minute glitches, the Cleveland Indians this month will make available to investors some four million shares of stock in the team. If the public buys the shares at the expected...

Saturday 5/30College World SeriesTwo strikes and yer out! At the College World Series, the double-elimination format allows all eight schools involved a second chance after a defeat. Each day this...

The Knicks fell in the second round, and the Rangers failed to make the playoffs, meaning that Madison Square Garden won't play a role in either the NBA Finals (which start this week on NBC) or...

It may not be any consolation to the Lakers, but they're in good company. Some superb teams have suffered playoff sweeps. Here are the four other most shocking shutouts in NBA history.

Fender RenderJim Guthrie's car (foreground) crashes into that of Sam Schmidt in Turn 3 at Indy during the 500. The worst injury suffered by either driver was a broken arm (page 94).

Led by the late-game theatrics of Reggie Miller, Indiana beat the Bulls twice to send the Eastern Conference finals back to Chicago dead even

Computerized reports, like the one at right and on succeeding pages that the Jazz had on the Bulls for the 1997 Finals, have fast become a prerequisite of postseason planning

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Diamondhacks

If her fellow owners can persuade Marge Schott—who is serving a two-year suspension for racially insensitive remarks—to sell the Reds, one man who would be interested in heading up a group to buy...

Angels shortstop Gary DiSarcina has handled every one of his 4,015 major league chances through Sunday with the same piece of tattered leather. While most big leaguers go through at least one...

On may 11 Cardinals manager Tony La Russa moved Ray Lankford out of the cleanup spot and into the two hole to try to jump-start his bat. The move worked out well enough for Lankford, who hit .316...

Some 30 years before Jackie Robinson, there was Jimmy Claxton

Finally a full-time backstop, Eddie Taubensee is making up for lost time

Fortunate 500

Dale Earnhardt Jr. is an emerging driver and an expert on tough love

5 Victories this season by the resurgent McLaren-Mercedes team, which won Monaco's Grand Prix on Sunday. Including the 1997 finale, McLaren-Mercedes has triumphed in six of the last seven Formula...

Mark James hasn't campaigned to be Ryder Cup captain, as one Euro star did last week, but he's likely to get the job anyway

Pixie SticksClubmaker George Todd lightens the load for young golfers

What do these players have in common?

My own dad couldn't believe I shot 59 at the Nike Dominion Open two weeks ago. When my brother Greg told him, Dad said, "You heard wrong, son. If Notah shot 59, I'll kiss his butt." Greg said,...

Texas Tornado: Laura Davies (below) used a new driver and a tailwind to drive die 368-yard par-4 4th hole at Stonebriar Country Club during last week's LPGA Skins Game in Frisco, Texas. She won...

Before they were famous, they were faces in the crowd, kids with a pipe dream shared by thousands of junior golfers. They wanted to be tour pros. Unlike the rest of the crowd, these six—two...

It's the only way to survive on the PGA Tour

24Years between Tom Watson's first Tour victory, at the 1974 Western Open, and his latest, at last week's Colonial.

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