Craig Fertig

Readers occasionally inquire how this magazine's staffers hack it as athletes. Well, as a teen-ager in Coral Gables, Fla., Bill Colson used to beat Jimmy Connors at tennis. That was only in practice, Connors having...

From the day he's hired, a college football coach has two things in common with his predecessor—a belief he can do the job, a good chance he won't. Meet four fresh optimists

BACK OF THE WEEK: USC Quarterback Craig Fertig, who is not supposed to be much of a passer, nevertheless outthrew Cal's Craig Morton, who is. Fertig completed 21 of 28 for 371 yards and four scores as USC won 26-21.