Plainfield

[Thumb Up] To the Plainfield (Ind.) Middle School, for maintaining a no-cut policy on its cheer-leading squad, as well as on most of its athletic teams. Of the school's 800 students, 73 are cheerleaders.

England's long-hitting Laura Davies starred in two Opens

For the greyhound, the phrase "run for your life" has long been a literal one. The dog who doesn't earn his keep in the kennel will be "put down," which in this case doesn't mean insulted. It's racing talk for being...

Ricky McCormick, a 4-foot-11, 95-pound ninth-grader from Independence, Mo., scored a world-record 4,569 points when he won the tricks event at the Group I Water Ski Championships in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Ricky has won...

Dorothy Macleod of Chicago defied critics who said she was too light (108 pounds) to hold a jumping horse, climbed aboard Windsor Castle and won the Big Jump at the Pennsylvania Horse Show at Harrisburg, Pa.