Here's another in a line of what might be called junk-food books. This hamburger is called Explosion! Mickey Mantle's Legendary Home Runs (Arbor House, $18.95), and it's the fourth in a menu...

THE TRUTH HURTS

•Sylvester Stallone on the broad appeal of arm wrestling: "You've got guys from MIT and guys who can't spell MIT"

Reacting to repeat offender SMU's latest transgressions, the NCAA has hit the recalcitrant Mustangs with a sentence that includes a one-year suspension of its football program

Ever since last Nov. 12, when he broke the story of the SMU football team's latest, and ultimately fatal, cheating scandal, wisecracking Dallas sportscaster Dale Hansen has been a pariah in Big D.

Heike Drechsler and Mike Conley set world records as mere warmup acts at Madison Square Garden

The Baltimore firm of Cat Ripken & Sons last week began restoring a once-proud club that had fallen on hard times

DePaul became the third Top 20 team to taste defeat on Notre Dame's home court

Boston's Ray Bourque might resemble Linus at home, but on the ice he could be the best defenseman in the NHL

Through the years the Cheltenham suburb of Philadelphia has been called home by personalities as diverse as Ezra Pound and Reggie Jackson. Somewhere between those two extremes lies staff writer...

Which of the best players get the least ink? Herewith, SI's NBA All-Underrated team

Columbia senior Katy Bilodeaux is aiming to be the best woman fencer the U.S. has ever produced

Way down yonder in New Orleans, the Bucs are rolling

VISIONS (CONT.)This year's swimsuit issue (Sugar and Spice and, Oh, So Nice, Feb. 9) knocked my socks off, as usual. The photography and location were beautiful, and the suits were stunning! Elle...

PICKIN' AND GRINNIN'

Staggering to the finish line, 11 of last week's Top 20 lost 15 games—Indiana and Kansas taking double-dips. Oklahoma a triple. Alabama would have lost had a timekeeper not been operating on TNT...

Bruce Lefkowitz, a 6'8" center for Penn, rocked Brown with 31 points and 20 rebounds in a 95-92 overtime victory. Florida State's PEE WEE BARBER, a 5'1" guard, knocked Miami and Southern...

At Calgary athletes and sleds displayed better form

Tatu scores with goals and discarded garments

A Flamingo win made Talinum a Derby contender

Undeterred by a mostly snowless winter, Calgary is busily shining its boot for a western-style 1988 Winter Olympics, less than a year away

Here is America's Cup racing, as viewed from the pit

At Krabloonik the moose is not 'au chocolat'

PRO BASKETBALL—The Lakers swept a midweek home-and-home series with Phoenix, 97-93 and 99-91, polished off Golden State 121-109 for their sixth straight win, then lost 107-100 to Utah. As a...

KRISTIN WILSONBEL AIR, MDWilson, a 6'2" senior center, set Sun Belt Conference single-game records for points (-45) and field goals (20) in UNC Charlottes 90-58 victor) over Converse College. Her...

Courageous Dick Howser was just too ill to manage