THE NCAA'S HOME COOKING

•Frank Layden, Utah Jazz coach, to a newspaper fashion editor who had called for an interview: "You don't want me. Pat Riley spends more on a haircut than I do on a sports jacket."

No. 1-ranked Duke charged into the NCAAs after knocking off Georgia Tech for the ACC title

Walter (the Truth) Berry was a devastating force as St. John's claimed the Big East tournament

Joaquin Andujar promised to make amends in his first week with the A's, even to a certain AL umpire

The U.S. survived its first-round match against Ecuador, but its Davis Cup prospects are shaky

Chicago Blackhawk Troy Murray has suddenly emerged as one of the NHL's biggest two-way stars

When we asked Roy Blount Jr. to do a story on the 100th anniversary of The Sporting News, we knew he would find the story to his liking. "I was just going to read some back issues," says Blount,...

The Bears' William Perry, a giant success in the advertising world, is turning his poundage to profit

Colorado's Pat Porter, U.S. cross-country champ since 1982, is an athlete truly in his element

Debi Thomas, who won the U.S. figure skating title with a magical act, will try again at the worlds

Michigan made very quick work of Indiana to take the Big Ten crown

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DAN PALOMBIZIO: Ball State's 6'8" forward hit 24 of 38 shots from the field, 25 of 30 free throws and had 33 rebounds in three games as the Cardinals won the MidAmerican tournament and an NCAA bid.

The Bible of Baseball hits 100 next week, and when the author visited the newspaper's archives in St. Louis, he passed through the looking glass into a wonderland of sacred relics and mythology

It has been nearly a dozen years since Evel Knievel went down in history—literally—trying to jump Idaho's Snake River Canyon. Thousands of Evel worshipers had gathered on the crumbling rim to give...

Charlie Briley is a ramrod-straight, Southern-bred gentleman with a shock of silver hair and a face profoundly furrowed by the good life. On this spring night, seated as always on his stool at the...

PRO BASKETBALL—Washington politicians routinely flip-flop on the issues, and now the local NBA team has done a major about-face of its own. On Tuesday, the Bullets were embarrassed by the lowly...

HUGH LaBOSSIERSEATTLELaBossier, a senior at Yale, won the U.S. men's amateur hardball squash racquets championship in New York City. LaBossier defeated Kenton Jernigan, a Harvard senior and...

HOCKEY'S HIT MENSir:I felt compelled to drop you a line and commend you on your well-documented article on hockey in the Feb. 17 issue (Hockey? Call It Sockey). I have many of the same feelings,...