In a glorious seventh season, Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics is demonstrating that he may be the NBA's best player of all time

The Hawkeyes brought a two-year winning streak to archrival Iowa State only to have it swept away by the vengeful Cyclones

Well, they re the new stars of the PGA Tour, which means a lot of people are pining for the old ones

As March approached, Louisville once again mounted its assault on college basketball's summit

As a madcap season of hearings came to a close, Wade Boggs settled for a mere $1.35 million

Kansas City may have won the World Series, but the club lost badly at the arbitration table. In all three cases, the players cashed in. Saberhagen turned his Cy Young Award into a $765,000 raise....

And it's not only in Pittsburgh that the Penguins' Mario Lemieux is compared with the Great One

Reporter Austin Murphy, our Basketball's Week writer, doesn't mean to bite the hand that used to feed him, but the newsletter he mails to his seven siblings does gum, nibble and maybe even gently...

Newly baptized John Mugabi wants to rid himself of a nickname and Marvelous Marvin Hagler of a title

Miami O.'s Ron Harper can do it all, and NBA scouts are panting

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LEN BIAS: Maryland's 6'8" senior forward had three blocks and 17 straight free throws and scored 65 points: 35 in a 77-72 OT upset of top-ranked North Carolina, 30 in a 77-70 loss to No. 5 Georgia...

Czech-born Miro Zajonc has raised hopes that this country will soon slide to the top

Catholic colleges in the U.S. have enjoyed marked success in big-time basketball, but, as the author suggests, this may be a mixed blessing

INSURING THE FUTURE OF SPORTS

•Jack Mansell, forward for fourth-ranked Georgia Tech, on his backup role: "If you're not going to play, you might as well not play for the best."

PRO BASKETBALL—Central Division-leading Milwaukee went 4-0, with Sidney Moncrief leading the team in scoring in three of the games. Moncrief wound up with 31 points as he rallied the Bucks from an...

MARK BOUSSYQUINCY, MASS.Boussy, 22, a senior forward on Norwich University's hockey squad, scored hat tricks in consecutive games. The first came in a 7-2 win over UMass. and the second in a 5-4...

FLO HYMAN'S LEGACYSir:The article (Marfan Syndrome: A Silent Killer, Feb. 17) by Richard Demak on Flo Hyman's death was a significant piece of journalism. I respect the Hyman family for requesting...