CAVEAT DRAFTOR

•Moses Malone, examining his bill as he checked out of a Milwaukee hotel after a game against the Bucks: "I only want to check out. I don't want to buy no hotel."

Invincible Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and a fierce fast break gave L.A. a 3-1 lead over Portland in the NBA playoffs

Their record-shattering offense gave the Oilers a 3-0 lead over the Hawks in the NHL playoffs

Houston's Nolan Ryan became baseball's leading strikeout pitcher, surpassing Walter Johnson, whose record had stood for 56 years

Whenever our writers are assigned stories involving Spanish-speaking personalities, they ask for an assist from Senior Reporter Angel Reyes. The latest case in point is Staff Writer Jack...

The Kentucky Derby is just around the corner and all the preps have been run, but no solid favorite has emerged from the mire

Belying his nickname, Pirate Bill Madlock has a rein on his explosive temper and a hold on the good life

Edwin Rosario barely beat Jose Luis Ramirez for the WBC lightweight title

Greg Louganis won both the men's titles at this unusual World Cup

An old-fashioned bidding war is brewing for preppie Pitcher Juan Nieves

When the Dodgers arrived in St. Louis for a three-game series last week, Third Baseman Pedro Guerrero went to the home of Cardinal Pitcher Joaquin Andujar, a childhood friend from the Dominican...

When the Yankees looked for an advertising campaign to promote this year's team they ignored their rich tradition and big-name players, like Dave Winfield, Don Baylor and Steve Kemp, and instead...

When the recently installed Bishop Stanley Ott of Baton Rouge designed his personal coat of arms, he included a small baseball because he's a fan—and a second cousin of Hall of Famer Mel Ott.

LARRY McWILLIAMS: The Pittsburgh lefthander allowed only a fifth-inning single in a 3-0 win over San Francisco and four hits in a 2-1 victory over San Diego while lowering his ERA to 2.23.

On the holiest of English streams an American angler encounters the wariest of trout—and an exacting code

If an aluminum violin gave you the same mellow tone as a Stradivarius, you would undoubtedly still object to an aluminum violin and take the wooden Stradivarius. —CALVIN RUTSTRUM

A SAMPLING OF LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS AND FIGURES TO AMUSE BASEBALL FANS

4—John Iacono2l—Illustration by Sam Q. Weissman34, 35—Jerry Wachter36—Manny Millan41—Jerry Wachter42, 43—Ronald C. Modra44—Jerry Cooke (top), Bill Luster45—Bill Luster46—Rob Brown (top), Jerry...

PRO BASKETBALL—Philadelphia swept its best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal series with New York, while Milwaukee and San Antonio were poised to follow suit. The 76ers beat the Knicks in Game...

DAVE BURKHOLDERWELLAND, ONTARIO.Burkholder, a 5'10", 175-pound junior goaltender, stopped 73 of 76 shots in two games as Rochester (N.Y.) Institute of Technology won its first NCAA Division II...

LONESOME BARRYSir:When I was a youth, I so idolized Rick Barry that I obtained his autograph not just once but four times. Yet the disdain others felt for him was apparent to me. I understood why...

The former "boy" running back of the World Football League has some advice for a notable youngster in pro football today. "If Herschel feels he has accomplished all he set out to do by the time...