Someone with a queasy stomach would do better to gallop on a raging bull camel across a desert than to stand stone still on a glacier. A glacier, in its own slow way, has done more bucking,...

When Zimmer called with the invitation, I sensed that it was a moment that would change my life.

Like many yo-yo aficionados of the 1940s and '50s, Tom Kuhn, 39, inventor of the No-Jive 3-in-1 Yo-Yo, which is made of maple, was weaned on wood. With the advent of plastic yo-yos in 1955, Kuhn,...

6—Lane Stewart19—Illustration by Sam Q. Weissman24, 25—Manny Millan26—Heinz Kluetmeier27—Jacqueline Duvoisin/ABC Sports32—Carl Skalak33—Manny Millan34, 39—Carl Skalak40, 41—Mummery &...

PRO BASKETBALL—Since becoming a starter on Dec. 7, Center Wayne Cooper has led the Portland Trail Blazers to six straight wins, including a 107-103 victory over the L.A. Lakers on Dec. 14. Cooper...

LARRY BIRDTAMPALarry, 33, a 13-inch hyacinthine macaw who plays power forward in The Busch Gardens Bird Show, shot 100% this year en route to scoring 2,824 points by dropping a plastic golf ball...

BIG BULLETSir:Congratulations on a fine article by Bruce Newman about Washington Center/Power Forward Jeff Ruland (A Tough Man in a Scramble, Dec. 13). If Ruland played for the Celtics, he'd be...

This mile race may not quite be at the level of Sebastian Coe vs. Steve Ovett or Sydney Maree vs. Steve Scott, but there will be an almost magical competitive aura at 9:50 p.m. Jan. 28 at the...

TROUBLE IN PARADISE?

•Bum Phillips, New Orleans Saints coach, on Bear Bryant's retirement (page 24) after losing four games this season: "I hate to see him take the blame, but he said when things go wrong you've got...

Paul (Bear) Bryant retires, and a confidant paints a rare and revealing portrait of the gridiron colossus

With its new running game in gear, second-ranked UCLA turned away tough Iowa

After being slapped around for a set, Martina Navratilova overwhelmed Chris Evert Lloyd to reaffirm she's No. 1

No. 1 Georgia may have Herschel, but in the Sugar Bowl showdown with No. 2 Penn State don't sell Curt Warner short

Four of the best players in NHL history assess the supremacy of Wayne Gretzky

Ruth's Falstaffian belly, Wilt's wingspan, the hightop shoes of Johnny U: The image evokes the man. On these pages are images that particularize sports luminaries of 1982. Who, for example, could...

These are the eyes of Contributing Photographer Brian Lanker: large, blue, curious, spellbinding. The rest of the man is all of those things, too, except blue, but we show only his eyes here...

Coach Lou Campanelli has guided James Madison out of the boondocks

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BRUCE VANLEY: Tulsa's 6'10" junior center was named MVP of the Oil Capital Classic in Tulsa. He scored 38 points and pulled down 19 rebounds in victories over North Carolina and co-host Oral Roberts.

As a boy in Redlands, Calif., Tony Hyman needed something "to put things in," so he obtained a dozen empty cigar boxes from a local tobacco store. "I Noticed that most of the boxes were for...

The best and worst on TV in 1982

When the author began the second Great Hawaiian Footrace, he couldn't know just how far he would go to avoid defeat