PRO BASKETBALL—The Hawks' 103-96 victory over the Pistons snapped Detroit's regular-season home winning streak at 25. The Pistons fell despite the efforts of Isiah Thomas, who scored 32 points,...

LAURA SCHWEITZERDAYTONSchweitzer, a senior at the University of Dayton, won the Midwestern Collegiate Conference women's cross-country title for the third straight year. Her time of 17:03 for the...

The author hints that a sports award may be overhyped

The Cleveland Crunch wanted to draft Simon Keith, but first there were a couple of questions the newest team in the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) wanted to ask him. So at a luncheon the day...

SOCCER FATALITY

•Jerry Reynolds, on his ups and downs as coach of the Sacramento Kings: "I've been convinced for some time that the Lord is punishing me for past transgressions, and I was a pretty ornery little...

Maurice Crum (49) and his Miami mates flattened Tony Rice and ended Notre Dame's 23-game winning streak

By stunningly upsetting No, 1 UNLV and No. 2 LSU and winning the NIT, unflappable Kansas poleaxed the pollsters

When not combing through our copy looking for misspellings and grammatical glitches, proofreader Luc Sante often casts a critical eye toward other copy. He's a book critic renowned for his meaty,...

Big bad Bears? Forget it. After a rout by the Redskins, their chances look bleak

Ralph Sampson is now with Sacramento, trying to save a career made shaky by bad knees and a tarnished past

"Dad," my 24-year-old son, Kenneth, asked not long ago, "what was your greatest moment in sports?" I suppose Kenneth expected me to tell him about one of my triumphs as a handball player who had...

Once a week, Ralph Citro, 63, a retired insurance agent from Blackwood, N.J., loads his black salesman's sample case with an economy-sized jar of Vaseline, an enormous bottle of Maalox, Q-tips,...

Eric Dickerson could become the greatest runner in history—unless he quits the game in frustration first

JOHN ELWAYHow sad it is to see the best player in Bronco history subjected to negativism and rumors ("I'm About to Suffocate," Nov. 6). How maddening to see the Denver fans, the NFL's most loyal,...

CBS paid $1 billion to keep the NCAA tournament

ROOKIE ROULETTE

THE FLIP SIDE

Bengals at Browns. All four places in the renascent AFC Central (box, below right) are at stake this week. The record in this series, which began in 1970, is Cincinnati 19, Cleveland 19. In the...

A decade after the Steelers led the AFC Central to dominance in the late 1970s, that division is again No. 1 in the NFL. The AFC Central has the tightest top-to-bottom standings of the league's...

ANYONE FOR A TITLE GAME?

OFFENSE:Houston quarterback Andre Ware, a junior, completed 37 of 63 passes for 475 yards and four touchdowns in a 40-24 win over Texas Tech. Ware has had a Division I-A record seven games this...

Pat Porter won an eighth U.S. title with a cruel strategy

As the football coach and athletic director of Escambia High School, in Pensacola, Fla., I read with great interest Rick Reilly's POINT AFTER about televising high school games (SI, Sept. 18). Mr....

RAY LEONARD DREAMS OF PEACE AND DETACHMENT, AND HE KNOWS ONLY ONE WAY TO KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE: BY RETURNING AND RETURNING ONCE AGAIN TO THE RING, THIS TIME TO MEET ROBERTO DURAN

People fear sharks, but they are vital to the sea

Kent Desormeaux's goal is 600 victories this year