Chances are you've never heard of him; yet the Baseball Hall of Fame is incomplete without his plaque, and the game owes him a profound debt of gratitude. His name is William Ambrose Hulbert. He...

CHIEF OBSTACLE

•Rick Pitino, Kentucky basketball coach, when asked about one of his team's defensive alignments: "That's our mother-in-law set—constant nagging and harassment."

New heavyweight king Buster Douglas is probably the only one in boxing who believed he would earn the right to that title

After Dale Earnhardt met a bizarre fate, Derrike Cope plucked a last-lap win at Daytona

After 10 seasons, Wayne Gretzky is feeling the wear and tear of life in the NHL. That spells trouble for the Kings

For Temple guard Mark Macon, the answer to that equation used to be success. Now, who knows?

Among the more than 60,000 fans at San Francisco's Candlestick Park on Oct. 17, when the earthquake stopped the World Series, was professional golfer Patty Sheehan. Like everyone else at the game,...

Schoolboy star Andre Hastings ignored Signing Day and kept anxious coaches like Lou Holtz and Bobby Bowden on hold about his football future

A few years ago, Atlanta seemed poised to challenge for the NBA title, but poor team chemistry and injuries have dimmed its hopes

THE STEELERS' GLORY DAYSThank you for Peter King's essay about the Pittsburgh Steelers' super years (The Steel Age, Jan. 22). As a youngster in the San Francisco Bay Area, I became caught up in...

Compelled by a hard-edged New England work ethic, the White Sox' Carlton Fish is, at the age of 42, still a cut or two above other catchers

PLUCK OF THE IRISH

MEN:Carlton Screen, a 6-foot senior guard for Providence, scored 29 points, including the Friars' last eight, in a 94-90 victory over third-ranked Georgetown. Screen then pumped in 23 points in a...

Out of Africa have come generations of dominant runners, forged by the rigors and customs of Kenya's Great Rift Valley

Glen Housman should soon be the undisputed 1,500 king

PRO BASKETBALL—The four-day All-Star break didn't cool off the Central Division-leading Pistons. They had seven players in double figures—but not one with more than 20 points—as they beat the...

MARY LU SILKJOLIET, ILL.Silk, 61, a housewife, shot a final round of 82 to defeat Tana Gray by 12 strokes in the women's championship of the Joliet Country Club. It was her 22nd victory in this...

South Africa must still be barred from international sports