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•Clint Hurdle, minor league manager in the Mets organization, pondering the ethnically mixed name of pitching prospect Vladimir Perez: "I think some people in his family got together during the...

In the final seconds Meldrick Taylor blew a sure win and was KO'd by Julio César Chávez

Loyola Marymount played as if possessed, stunning Michigan with a record scoring barrage in the NCAA tournament's wild and woolly opening week

The first full practice came two days after a campus memorial service for their friend and teammate. Yet even with the finality of that ceremony, Loyola Marymount's basketball players found it...

Olympic heroine Janet Evans won three individual events for Stanford in the NCAAs

Jodie Mudd, that is, and he won The Players Championship at Sawgrass

Chris Berman, ESPN's answer to Fred Flintstone, has struck gold in the cable-TV quarry. A knack for nicknames is a key to his success

PLAYER OF THE YEARCongratulations on selecting Oregon State's Gary Payton as player of the year ('Gary Talks It, Gary Walks It,' Mar. 5). It is refreshing to see that an accomplished college...

Fed up with parity? Long for a genuine dynasty? Maybe you are looking in the wrong places

The NFL is smitten with its new commissioner

For 22 years Emil Zatopek, the marvelous distance runner, was 'not available.' Now, in the new Czechoslovakia, he is at last free

When Johnny Miller was young, golf for him was a string of 61s, but as he moved into his mid-30's, the game he had once played so effortlessly became more difficult. From a tee he would look down...

Jockey Pat Day guided Unbridled to a four-length win in the Florida Derby

PRO BASKETBALL—Detroit, tops in the Central Division, routed division-rival Chicago 106-81, out-scoring the Bulls 32-11 in the fourth quarter. The Pistons finished off a perfect week by beating...

BOB MULLENMONTICELLO, IOWAMullen, 77, coached his 900th girls' basketball victory in 51 years, as Central City High defeated North Linn High 54-53. Mullen, who also coached boys' basketball for 15...

Basketball coaches turned analysts are beyond belief

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar chose to use his first name as the title of his second book, which means we're finally past formalities with the man who first wrote of himself in Giant Steps. In that 1983...