August 16, 1982 | Volume 57, Issue 7

The Bears' Walter Payton has trained prodigiously for the new season, but will probably take the same old pounding

Sports and art have always vied for the affections of SI Assistant Art Director Larry Gendron. Although he began painting in the third grade after he fell in love with a print of Salvador Dali's...

Raymond Floyd got comfortable with a record opening-round 63 and kept his cool to win the PGA at sultry Southern Hills

Dwight Braxton battered Matthew Saad Muhammad at will in their WBC light heavyweight rematch

When the Mariners have to find the missing hits, get the final outs, or track down Mr. Jell-O, they know whom to summon: Reliever Bill Caudill

But CBS's Frank Chirkinian (left) thinks Chuck Howard's ABC shows stink

Dave LaRoche has LaLurched all year between New York and Columbus

NL WEST

DOUG DeCINCES: For the first time in his career, the California Angel third baseman hit three home runs in a game—and he did it twice. He had 12 hits in 24 at bats with eight homers and 12 RBIs.

Emulating his dad, Tommy Haughton won the big one with Speed Bowl

MAKING ALTERNATIVE PLANS

•Bear Bryant, allowing that he'd been impressed during a meeting with Michael Kane, who's writing the screenplay for a movie on the Alabama football coach's life: "He's an able writer...if he...

2—Frank White7—Illustration by Sam Q. Weissman10, 11—Ronald C. Modra12—Heinz Kluetmeier13—Heinz Kluetmeier, Ronald C. Modra (insets)14, 15—Heinz Kluetmeier (7), Ronald C. Modra (bottom right)16,...

ARCHERY—LUANN RYON, the 1976 Olympic gold medalist, won the women's crown at the National Target Archery championship in Oxford, Ohio with a two-day total of 2,541 points. RICK McKINNEY won his...

CINDY PATTERSONSTUDIO CITY, CALIF.Cindy, 18, won the U.S. Long Distance Swimming Championship at the 14th Annual Seal Beach Rough Water Swim, covering the 10-mile ocean course in 2:58:17 to break...

BOOM BOOM AND BUSTSir:Ralph Wiley has earned my deepest gratitude for his story on Ray (Boom Boom) Mancini's successful first defense of his WBA lightweight title (A Shining Ray of Hope, Aug. 2)....