Atlantans were "World Serious" after their sweep of San Diego. Then L.A. dropped in

Most evenings in Storm Lake, Iowa, just as the sun begins to set behind the Gooch Feed Mill in the center of town, a new American phenomenon occurs. Hundreds of Storm Lake families—perhaps half...

The Old Red Head played Vegas and showed he may make it back to the NBA

The 18th annual Columbia Cup for unlimited hydroplanes was in its second day of competition last Saturday when four-time national champion Dean Chenoweth and his Miss Budweiser roared down the...

Should the NFL's players be checked for drugs by urinalysis? By and large, management says yes, the players no

Denver Guard Tom Glassic likes to play with toy soldiers that remind him of wars he fought in earlier lives

Staff Photographer Lane Stewart stopped outside Winslow, Ariz. a few weeks ago to phone the office for his next assignment. "I was in the middle of the desert," he says, "in one of those places...

Nobody has won anywhere near as many U.S. national tennis titles as Dodo Cheney, one canny old bird on the court and at the poker table

Chicago's Britt Burns is not just another one of those flaky lefties

AL WEST

The best ball-and-strike umpires, according to an SI poll of pitchers who have been in the same league since at least 1980:

SIXTO LEZCANO: The San Diego Padres outfielder batted .519 and drove across a dozen runs. His 14 hits in 27 trips to the plate included nine extra-base blows—five round-trippers and four doubles.

Alexis Arguello KO'd Kevin Rooney and now has a date with Aaron Pryor

Seattle Slew's 2-year-old daughter Landaluce is already a red-hot runner

All-America Quintin Dailey's guilty plea to an assault charge led to disclosures that brought an end to college basketball at San Francisco

The following is the transcript of a San Francisco police interrogation of Quintin Dailey on Feb. 5, 1982, taped after he failed a lie detector test on Jan. 27 and, according to police,...

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BOWLING—GUPPY TROUP beat top-seeded Steve Fehr 231-204 to win a $100,000 PBA event in Windsor, Ontario.

BRAD MAYOWEST ORANGE, N.J.Brad, a sophomore-to-be at West Orange High, won the intermediate-division long jump at the state AAU Junior Olympics (23'3½"), becoming the first New Jersey ninth-grader...

TABBED FOR GREATNESSSir:Congratulations to Mary Decker Tabb (It Was Just Another Mary Chase, July 26)! Competing in a country where women's sports are subordinated to men's and, furthermore, where...

PRAISE FOR LO SCHIAVO

•Senator Thomas Eagleton of Missouri, defending in a Senate debate his state's position as a major brewer of beer, after an opponent raised the possibility of a punitive tax on that beverage:...