Who better to send to the desert than a guy named Moses? So, long before Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager said "Fill 'er up" and circled the globe in their strange aircraft, senior writer Sam Moses...

The Jets switched quarterbacks, woke up and did a 35-15 number on the Chiefs

Overdoing the Yuletide spirit, the Rams handed Washington a 19-7 victory

Deadeye Kentucky freshman Rex Chapman gave slumping Louisville a taste of the future

Brian Bosworth was a conspicuous casualty of the NCAA's steroid crackdown

At 6'3" and 273 pounds, Dean Steinkuhler has one of those cement-mixer physiques—barrel chest, stonecutter's arms and legs, thick neck, lantern jaw—that seems not built, but poured. To be sure,...

Thanks to a remarkable performance by Pat Cash (above), the Aussies defeated powerful Sweden to win the Davis Cup

Dwight Gooden's troubling year, on and off the field, ended in an ugly confrontation with Tampa police

Circling the globe nonstop without refueling, Voyager accomplished flying's 'last first'

SPORTSMANWhen big-time college sports programs win without bending rules, everyone wins (Not An Ordinary Joe, Dec. 22-29). Thank you, Joe Paterno. Wonderful choice, SI.DAVID HOBURGAllison Park, Pa.

Nineteen-nine is out of line, say most coaches of the new rule

AND THE EGGNOG ISN'T SOUR

TCU guard JAMIE DIXON scored 21 first-half points, 28 all told, as the Frogs horned Oklahoma 95-82 to win the All-College Tournament in Oklahoma City. Virus-ridden North Carolina State coach Jim...

6:1The ratio of defending champion Louisville Cardinals who prefer the rap jams of Run-D.M.C. over Bruce Springsteen. Of course, if the Cards keep getting blown away nobody will care. Hey, 'Ville,...

Boisterous breezes have made it drama time in Australia for America's Cup photographers—witness the portfolio in these pages—and now it's crunch time for the surviving American skippers (page 56).

Dennis Conner, the man who lost the America's Cup, races a U.S. archenemy in the fight to get it back

PRO BASKETBALL—With only four games in two weeks, the Hawks played .500 ball and remained in first in the Central Division. But the Bucks, who won four of five, and the red-hot Pistons, who won...

RALPH McKINZIEEUREKA, ILL.McKinzie, 92, is an assistant football coach at Eureka College, where he served as head coach from 1921 to '36. In his many years of coaching, McKinzie's most famous...

It's as American as apple pie, the flag and Jack Tatum

DIFFERENT ATTITUDES

•Bill Callahan, University of Missouri sports information director, on how he improved at his job: "I used to have the worst time remembering names. Then I took that Sam Carnegie course and...