Karen Mullarkey had every right to be anxious before Sunday's Super Bowl. After only five months as SI's director of photography, she was in New Orleans coordinating our 13-person photo operation...

In a record-setting deluge, the 49ers swamped Denver 55-10 in Super Bowl XXIV

The nation's media made their annual assault upon the Super Bowl in a desperate search for news of import—or even a respectable rumor

When Jack Nicklaus made his senior debut in Hawaii, three old costars flew in to share the moment—or to steal it

In the beastly Big East, Connecticut has become one of the top dogs

MIAMI IS NO.1I believe the debate about who's No. 1. (Miami Is the One, Jan. 8) has obscured an important fact. At times this year, Miami, Notre Dame, Florida State, Colorado and USC all played...

As usual, there wasn't much suspense before the announcement last month of the results of this year's Baseball Hall of Fame balloting. It would have been surprising only if Jim Palmer and Joe...

In the last five years, in pursuit of proficiency at boardsailing, I have given up a job, bought a small moving van to carry four fully rigged sails (the better to be ready for each and every puff...

Something's wrong here. It's a world championship tennis match, but everything on this court is slightly warped. The rackets look as though they have melted. The balls are as hard as baseballs and...

This week, jockey Bill Shoemaker will finish a nine-month farewell tour that has earned him a lot of money—and a bit of criticism

Neither sun nor wind nor flies could stop Ivan Lendl and Steffi Graf in Australia

THE HOUSE THAT ROARED

MEN:David Booth, a 6'7" sophomore forward for DePaul, scored a career-high 37 points on 15-of-23 shooting in a 66-62 upset of fourth-ranked Louisville. Earlier in the week he had 19 points and...

THEY'RE HOMELY, THEY'RE HOSTILE, THEY'RE A CABLE CULT. FROM A SMOKE-FILLED ROOM, IT'S THE SPORTS WRITERS ON TV'

Bluefish is not an edible fish. I don't care what anybody says and I don't want your recipe.

A Cape Horn kayak expedition was no paddle in the park

PRO BASKETBALL—Led by the scoring heroics of Karl Malone (page 9), the Jazz dominated three games—by an average score of 120-93-and ran its winning streak to nine. After coasting through a 102-94...

LAURA RIEGLERHUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIF.Laura, 8, who is a forward for the American Youth Soccer Organization's Division 6 Tigers, scored 30 of her team's 39 goals as she led the Tigers to a 10-0...

Shame on Michigan State for caving in to George Perles

AT THE SUPER BOWL

•Karl Mecklenburg, Bronco linebacker, on what his team would need to do to beat the 49ers: "Defensively, I think it's important for us to tackle."