Under A. Thomas Schomberg's knowing hand, shapes slowly emerge out of the formless lump of modeling wax. A man's head appears. Arms, legs, torso. Finally, a rock climber scaling an unseen...

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•Billy Gardner, new manager of the Kansas City Royals, upon arriving in Fort Myers, Fla., for the first time in 25 years: "The last time I was here, Howard Johnson's sold only vanilla."

East Germany's Katarina Witt dazzled the judges to win the world figure skating crown

That's the question facing the Red Sox, who have made boss Haywood Sullivan's son Marc their starting catcher

UNLV, North Carolina, Indiana and Georgetown led the way into the NCAA basketball tournament's round of 16

Somewhere in the not-too-distant past something fundamental happened to the NCAA tournament. The show became even bigger than the event. Oh, buzzer-beater finishes are still at the heart of it...

I like to study athletes for what they do well, what they do better than anyone," says staff writer Jaime Diaz. One of Diaz's favorite subjects is golf—and with good reason. Take this week's story...

Peerless Pirmin Zurbriggen clinched a third Cup title on capricious Mount Allan

The longest hitter in golf is Davis Love III, who hopes his prodigious swing will one day make him a big winner

When the NBA's worst team, the Los Angeles Clippers, visited four cities, the name of the game was—as usual—futility

SEAN HIGGINSI can't help but get conflicting signals about the entire Sean Higgins situation (Signed, Sealed and Sorry, Feb. 23). It's hard to believe he never gave a "hoot" about UCLA. Preseason...

With only one of the species left in the wild, a remarkable bird struggles for survival

The once woeful Whalers are fishing for a Stanley Cup

HANSHIN'S RANDY BASS FOUND FAME A LONG WAY FROM HOME

It's difficult to discuss Bowie Kuhn's autobiography, Hardball: The Education of a Baseball Commissioner (Times Books, $19.95) in a dispassionate manner. On the one hand, the book is a fascinating...

Undeterred by polio, Jack Keefe is a top backstroker at 71

The gamy place of the author's youth just isn't the same

Alex Justin is a hotshot high school baseball player with an ego to match his skills. He knows he's destined to play in the pros, but he's secretly obsessed with what he calls the Moment, when all...

PRO BASKETBALL—In the Central, where the only tight division battle remains, Atlanta stretched its winning streak to 10—the NBA's longest this season—but still couldn't catch Detroit, which had...

TIMMY TURNERSAGINAW, MICH.Timmy, 8, a center on the Danti Tool & Die mite hockey team, scored five goals, three of them during a 26-second span in the final period, to rally Danti to a 7-6...

Woody Hayes was an apostle of primal struggle