Columns covering a broad range of weekly happenings in baseball, college football and college basketball have appeared regularly in SI for many years. In that time, national interest in those...

ALLEN'S EXAMPLESir:At a time when we are reminded all too often of the vulnerability of young athletes and of their failures and tragedies, it is refreshing to read an article like Jill Lieber's...

This is the story of a cow femur. And some behemoths who like to eat worms. And a receiver who has trouble with high fives, a free safety named Pugsly and the rest of the Montana State football...

JUDGMENT CALLS

•Hayden Fry, Iowa football coach, claiming quarterback Mark Vlasic has a stronger arm than last year's starter. Chuck Long: "He proves it every day in practice by overthrowing receivers."

The Oklahoma Sooners crushed UCLA so completely that they seemed in a zone of their own

Greg LeMond grumbled and lost at the world pro race in Colorado

Top seeds Martina Navratilova and Ivan Lendl won fourCzeching final showdowns in New York

While no champion has a more obscure persona than Ivan Lendl, the unusual shirt patterns that he exhibits on court have made his attire more familiar than the clothes worn by more famous players....

Jim Kelly's spectacular NFL debut—a near upset of the Jets by the Bills—reminded some of the glory days of Joe Willie

Manfred Hanover is the Don Juan of the harness racing circuit, wooing fans at the racetrack and mares in the breeding shed

TICKETS, PLEASE

OFFENSE: QB Steve Taylor rushed for 139 yards and 2 TDs and completed 10 of 16 passes for 130 yards and 2 scores to lead Nebraska to a 34-17 win over Florida State.

Although quarterback Vinny Testaverde failed to gain on the Heisman meter in Gainesville, Fla., on Saturday, his Miami Hurricanes earned plenty of respect by beating Florida 23-15. Testaverde...

A BEAR MARKET FOR MIKE

OFFENSE: Eric Dickerson rushed for 193 yards, carried a career-high 38 times and scored on touchdown runs of 1 and 16 yards as the Los Angeles Rams held on for a 16-10 victory over the Cardinals.

COMING ATTRACTION IN FENWAY?

HORSE LAUGHS

Mike Tyson kept on pace to become the youngest heavyweight champion

Thirty is the age after which one should never be trusted, or so it was said during the era when this tale begins. But I'm not yet 30—not quite, anyway—and though it's preposterous that I should...

Bam Bam Bigelow gave up bounty hunting a year ago after a fugitive in Mexico pumped a slug into his back. Though the bullet barely made a dent in Bam Bam's 6'3", 390-pound frame, he decided to try...

BOXING—MICHAEL SPINKS retained his IBF heavyweight title by stopping challenger Steffen Tangstad of Norway, the European heavyweight champ, at 58 seconds of the fourth round, in Las Vegas. On the...

ELSA MATTILAEDGEWATER, MD.Mattila, a 76-year-old retired physical education teacher, established national short-course swimming records (75-79 age group) in six events—the 100-, 200-and 400-yard...