Ty Cobb, misusing a metaphor from my own profession of evolutionary biology, wrote in his autobiography: "Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men.... It's a contest and everything that...

YOGI'S BACKSir:Thanks for Walter Iooss Jr.'s photograph of Yogi Berra's back on the cover of your Special Baseball Issue (April 2). What a nifty idea! But tell me, has SI ever before featured...

HAVE THEY EVERA final note from the World Cup ski circuit. As members of the U.S. women's team wended their way by car from Lake Placid to the next World Cup race site at Waterville Valley, N.H.,...

•Gene Shue, Washington Bullets coach, commenting on star center Jeff Ruland: "Without him we're an average team. In fact, with him we're an average team."

Deep and talented Georgetown used fierce defense and unselfish offense to defeat Houston and take the NCAA title

Teenage running prodigy Zola Budd forsook South Africa for England and a chance at the 1984 Olympics

After a string of spiritless losses, the burning question in tennis is: What's wrong with Andrea Jaeger?

Associate writer Barry McDermott remembers the first time he saw Andrea Jaeger, at the junior Orange Bowl tournament in 1978. She was 13—all of 80 pounds, barely 5 feet tall—and was tearing up the...

USC won its second straight NCAA women's title

Fred Couples coolly claimed the TPC on a revamped, docile layout

A tough son of Seattle Slew won Woody Stephens a Florida Derby

The Olympic hopes of youth and age were served at the indoor nationals

One side effect of the concern about the environment that has swept America in recent years has been the proliferation of guidebooks to what used to be called "the wonders of nature." The three...

Marvelous Marvin Hagler retained a title, Wilfredo Gomez won one

Mario Andretti staved off a foreign foray as Long Beach went Indy

Painting word pictures that have made him the Michelangelo of basketball broadcasters, Chick Hearn is the enduring voice of the Lakers

For a long time now—ever since distance running came into high fashion—I've been searching for the perfect run. I've entered events (and have several drawersful of T shirts to prove it) ranging in...

Some girls are horse-crazy the way others are boy-crazy. Actually, I don't think those inclinations are mutually exclusive, because I remember being intrigued by both horses and boys when I was...

2, 3—Rich Clarkson13—Buck Miller16—Illustration by Sam Q. Weissman24, 25—Mark Shearman26, 27—Peter Magubane/Gamma Liaison (top left), Mark Shearman (bottom left), Cloete Breytenbach (2)28, 33—Mark...

COLLEGE BASKETBALL—GEORGETOWN defeated Houston 84-75 to win the NCAA men's title in Seattle (page 18).

LARRY FARRARECAMBRIDGE, MD.Farrare, 35, a 6'2" senior swingman for Maryland-Eastern Shore, is believed to be the country's oldest major-college basketball player. He had worked for eight years as...