While others crashed or sputtered out of contention, Geoff Bodine remained up front and out of trouble to win the Daytona 500

The Celtics' second victory over the Lakers made it clear why they're the superior team this time around

The networks say they no longer can afford to pay high rights fees, and the sports world could soon be the poorer for it

ABC Sports, the self-proclaimed leader in sports television, had always operated as something of a country club. Six-block limo rides to executive lunches, hotel suites on the road, helicopters at...

The 12-meter world championship off Fremantle brought out a bright array of contenders for the '87 America's Cup

Jan Kemp won $2.58 million in a suit that bared academic abuses involving the athletes at Georgia

Keith Morris, SI's energetic director of publicity and special events, is retiring. Morris has been with Time Inc. since 1950. In 1954, when he heard that Henry Luce was starting a sports...

Bobby Cremins of Georgia Tech, basketball's new young coaching star, already frets about burnout

EAST

Who's the best team in the West? Would you believe...Pepperdine?

HAROLD PRESSLEY: Villanova's 6'7" senior forward shot 82% from the field for 34 points and had 11 rebounds, eight blocks and five steals in the 'Cats' 90-88, double-OT upset of Georgetown.

The heralded Billy, Sergei & Joe show laid an egg at the Millrose

For athletes and fans alike, the name of the game often isn't a name at all, but lots of digits

LEGAL BRIEFS

•Charlie Simmer, Boston Bruins forward, upon returning to action after an eye injury: "The doctor told me, if I see two pucks, to take the one on the left."

Uncalloused hands and underdeveloped arms hide the fact, but for four years I was a hay baler. More precisely, I was a Haybaler at Hollister High, in Hollister, Calif. And though I always handled...

JOHN KUSTICHTONAWANDA, N.Y.John, 15, bowled a 300 game on his way to an 818 series in a Saturday league at Manor Lanes. John, who's a sophomore at St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute, had strikes in...

PRO BASKETBALL—Milwaukee increased its Central Division lead over Atlanta to five games by winning three times. Forward Terry Cummings scored 20 points to lead the Bucks back from an 18-point...

WAVESSir:It was super to see the Chicago Bears featured on three consecutive covers (Jan. 20, Jan. 27 and Feb. 3). And now, oh my, there's another bare on the cover (Feb. 10).RICHARD KRYSTYNChicago