The company, which was founded in the mid-1940s in the Alps of Slovenia, the extreme northwestern province of Yugoslavia, has its roots in war as surely as Krupp ever did. But it makes skis, not...

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CHRIS PRYORCONVERSE, TEXASChris, a 5'11", 195-pound senior at Judson High, ran for 2,800 yards and 35 touchdowns to lead the 15-1 Rockets to the AAAAA state football title. He broke by 389 yards...

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SHOE COUNTSir:After reading Foot Soldiers of Fortune in your Jan. 23 issue, I decided to see who won the "sneaker war" in the rest of the issue. Here is my unofficial tally of individual sneakers...

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With back to the wall and shaky runway underfoot, Carl Lewis electrified New York's Millrose Games with a world indoor record leap of 28'10¼"

In his 42nd and final season at DePaul, coach Ray Meyer was 16-0 with a team that refuses to quit

When it came to throwing it down in the NBA Slam-Dunk Championship, no player had better stuff than Larry Nance

Next week, when they light the torch at the '84 Games, among the 1,579 competitors will be the finest U.S. Winter Olympic team ever assembled

Bill Koch, the one U.S. hope for an Olympic cross-country skiing medal, drives himself in hot pursuit of perfection

All of us at SI—along with countless Olympic officials and athletes who have dealt with her over the past 10 Olympics, winter and summer—are keenly aware that associate editor Anita Verschoth is...

If you're going to the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo later this month, you'd better pack your appetite. The native cuisine is nothing if not tasty, and there are a goodly number of restaurants in...

Kerry Lynch, impressionist, drummer and double-duty skier, is a favorite to win the Nordic combined at Sarajevo

ABC will cover Sarajevo with a dazzling assortment of futuristic gadgets

Out of tiny Kiens in the Südtirol comes Paul Hildgartner to take aim at an Olympic singles luge victory. Other Europeans hoping to win gold at Sarajevo: an East German speed skater and a Yugoslav...

In the vast indoor skating arena of Dresden's Sportclub Einheit, three small children are carefully tracing loops and figure eights, an enchanting sight in a place so cold and forbidding....

His name is Bojan Križaj (pronounced boy-an kree-shy), and when the Winter Olympics begin in Sarajevo, no other athlete in all of the Balkans will be under more pressure than this stocky young man...

Bojan Krizžaj certainly isn't the first home-country athlete to be subjected to such Olympic pressure. It happens every four years. What's extraordinary is the way beleaguered local competitors...

SPEED SKATINGWith one exception, speed skating figures to be dominated by athletes from traditional strongholds: the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the U.S.S.R. and East Germany. The exception is...

Fifteen years ago my wife, Hilde, and I decided we needed a vigorous winter sport. So we took up cross-country skiing. We were able to outfit ourselves with adequate skis, boots, bindings and...

Terence Stansbury, a 6'5" guard, is the lead man in a revival at Temple

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CHARLES BARKLEY: Auburn's 6'6" junior center scored 37 points, made 16 of 22 shots from the floor, had 26 rebounds and blocked 11 shots as the Tigers beat Tennessee and upset Louisiana State.

A sure bet for Olympic gold is Scott Hamilton, the U.S. and world figure skating champion, who has a knockout program for Sarajevo