The nation is tuned in as Kansas City's George Brett makes the most serious run at batting .400 since Ted Williams hit .406 in 1941

While Kansas City charges to the playoffs and George Brett challenges .400, the rest of the American League West is fighting to survive

The PGA will soon have to choose between Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson for Player of the Year. Even after Watson breezed through the World Series and broke the $500,000-a-year barrier, you could...

A new season begins with programs tainted by academic scandal, many of the old, authoritarian coaches gone and their successors obliged to bellow, "Please run through that wall." Ahh, but all is...

Nobody stops Defensive End Hugh Green, the best athlete in college football, which means Pitt could be going to the very top

The pro football issue offers a Paul Zimmerman inquiry into the two-minute offense and the prevent defense (tackling the cardinal question—what does it prevent?) and Paul's fearless findings on...

Coach Bobby Bowden of Florida State has a 6'1", 240-pound All-America noseguard named Ron Simmons. You wouldn't hire Bowden to write a love letter for you, but when he describes Simmons you detect...

It was the height of incongruity. Polite, gentle, easygoing UCLA senior Kenny Easley, seated in the relaxed surroundings of a rooftop restaurant, looking down on Sunset Boulevard and, in his...

1. PITT

After the first hour of a shooting session with Hugh Green, the University of Pittsburgh defensive end, and Orpheus, the 80-pound black panther who shares this week's cover with Green,...

CALIFORNIA

It came as something of a shock last season when Notre Dame lost four of its 11 games and finished out of the Top 20 for the first time in 16 years. Well, here comes more shocking news: next week...

This is the NCAA's version of the Not-Ready-for-Prime-Time Players. There are now 46 teams in Division I-AA, up from 39 last year, and enthusiasm is growing right along with the numbers. "It's...

The spunky Rocky Mount (N.C.) Pines are easily the worst team in organized ball and maybe the worst in history

AL WEST

AL OLIVER: The Ranger outfielder tied an American League record with four homers in a doubleheader (three in the nightcap). All in all, he hit five home runs and three doubles, scored 10 runs, had...

Slo-pitch biggies like Jerry's Caterers pay top dollar for citizens with swat

RESTATING THE CASE FOR REFORM

•Patty Sheehan, a rookie on the LPGA circuit: "I like the thought of playing for money instead of silverware. I never did like to polish."

There's nothing quite like an archrival for turning on a college town, and no town has more spirited folks than Columbia when Missouri takes on Oklahoma

4—Lane Stewart28, 29—Lane Stewart30—George Tiedemann31—Lane Stewart (top), Lynn Pelham32—Jerry Wachter (top), Peter Read Miller34, 35—Tony Triolo (top), John Iacono58, 59—Wil McIntyre64-68—Mike...

BILLIARDS—NICK VARNER defeated defending champion Mike Sigel 150-13 to win the world open pocket billiard championship in New York City. JEAN BALUKAS beat Billie Billing 100-25 for the women's title.

RICKY CHATMANLSURicky, a 6'2", 215-pound running back and linebacker from Winnfield (La.) High, gained 1,395 yards last season and scored 10 TDs. On defense he made 498 career tackles and...

J.R. RICHARDSir:Thank you for a fine article on the J.R. Richard tragedy (Now Everyone Believes Him, Aug. 18). Unfortunately, I was one of many people in Houston who doubted the seriousness—or...