By thrashing Alabama in the Sugar Bowl, the Hurricanes not only won the national crown but proved they are the team of the decade as well

Notre Dame denied Colorado its first national title with a 21-6 win in the Orange Bowl

Bo Schembechler's glorious 21-year coaching career at Michigan ended on a fitting note at the Rose Bowl late Monday afternoon. He lost. Ranting, raving, raging, he lost 17-10 to USC. The defeat...

Steve Classen, a professional snowboarder who hails from Mammoth Lakes, Calif., gave it his best shot on Straight Shot, a run in one of the so-called back bowls near Vail, Colo.

The name of the game for schoolboy basketball powers is national tournaments, TV and cutthroat recruiting

Rashard Griffith's first exposure to a basketball recruiter taught him exactly what he means to those caring, sharing flesh peddlers with their big rings and bad haircuts. Two years ago the phone...

Pittsburgh, the unlikeliest playoff team, again showed its guts, beating Houston with a doubly dramatic 50-yard field goal

The surprising Rams befuddled the Eagles in the NFC wild-card game

Award-winning Chris Chelios of Montreal is a nasty cuss on the ice, but playing the role of a parent has helped him develop a softer side

TEXAS VS. PENNSYLVANIANeale X. Trangucci's list of alltime Pennsylvania football players (LETTERS, Nov. 6) is a joke. In printing it, you fell into the same trap you did in 1964, when you ran an...

Baseball's Perez brothers are as loco as Groucho, Harpo and Chico

An innovative coach has made little David Lipscomb a powerhouse in the NAIA

A FINE-TUNED YUGO

MEN:Ohio swingman Dave Jamerson averaged 46.3 points in a 110-81 victory over Charleston, a 72-69 loss to Washington State and a 79-73 win over Fordham. He had an NCAA-record 14 treys in a...

Ernie Hobbie is watching me shoot the basketball. I am about six feet from the hoop, looking at the middle eyelet on the front of the rim, knees bent, feet spread shoulder width, perfectly poised...

Money drew 22 world-class wrestlers to Pittsburgh

Forty-niners and Chiefs (!) lead Dr. Z's All-NFL team

OFFENSE

SOME SPORTS MARKS ARE NO SOONER ESTABLISHED THAN THEY ARE BROKEN. BUT OTHERS, LIKE THE ONES SET BY THE ATHLETES SHOWN HERE, ARE CERTAIN TO LAST FOREVER. MAYBE

A PAIR OF BATTLERS

•Martina Navratilova, noted tennis southpaw, explaining why she never insured her left arm with Lloyd's of London: "They wanted an arm and a leg."

Fewer spokes mean faster pedal pushing

PRO BASKETBALL—The Lakers closed out the 1980s with victories over the Kings (104-102) and the Warriors (130-111), which gave them a 584-222 record for the decade, tops in the NBA. (The runner-up...

KATHY SYMONDSANSONIA, CONN.Symonds, 35, coached Amity Regional High's girls' volleyball team to a 22-0 season and its sixth Class L title in nine years. Amity beat defending champ Maloney High of...

The author's best wishes for the decade ahead