The coffee-table book of bird-hunting scenes is a publishing staple, and relatives shopping for the sportsmen in their lives have a vast selection of lush volumes to choose from. However, probably...

Rob Nelson's career is in extra innings thanks to a sweet idea

Women outshone the men at the NCAA championships

COLLEGE BASKETBALL—UNLV defeated Duke 103-73 to win the NCAA men's championship, in Denver (page 24).

JESSICA IRISHRIO RANCHO, N.MEX.Jessica, 10, won the vault and the balance beam and placed second on the uneven bars and third in floor exercise to earn the all-around title, with a score of 33.65,...

The Lakers' Pat Riley should be named Coach of the Year

Here's the perfect book to enlighten all your friends who think that Magnus force is a TV show currently in afternoon reruns: The Physics of Baseball (Harper & Row, $7.95), by Robert Kemp...

You don't need to be a neurosurgeon to know that Jim Nantz has a mind like a steel trap. The hot young CBS sportscaster, who this week will host the Masters tournament telecast for the second...

NOT O.K., OKLAHOMA

•Chris Corchiani, North Carolina State basketball player, to ESPN announcer Dick Vitale, after the shinypated Vitale suggested Corchiani meet Vitale's 18-year-old daughter, Terri: "Mr. Vitale,...

UNLV beat Duke 103-73 in the most lopsided NCAA title game ever

Joining the seniors in Arizona, Jack Nicklaus rediscovered the swing that once ruled the game

It's a long way from stone mountain (elevation: 1,683 feet), Ga., where Cathy Griffin was raised, to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro (19,342 feet). But that's where Griffin, SI's director of...

Sandy Alomar Jr. and Todd Zeile are the stars of '90, but they're not the only rookies who are blossoming this spring

NEW YORK, April 1, 2000

Led by Jennifer Azzi, Stanford flew past Auburn to win the women's NCAA basketball crown

Many of the epic sports confrontations of the last decade were staged not on the gridiron or baseball diamond, but in courtrooms: Pete Rose versus baseball, Al Davis and the Raiders versus the...

Get ready, Europe. Here comes Tony Meola, the gifted goalie who promises to be the U.S.'s first world-class soccer star

WILL ON LA RUSSAGeorge Will's and Tony La Russa's comments in A Head for the Game (March 12), excerpted from Will's new book, are the most insightful and compelling arguments for the DH I have...

Fancy foreign models may rule tennis singles, but the U.S.'s Rick Leach (left) and Jim Pugh are top of the line in doubles

Ah, the bittersweet life of the NBA 10-day player. Here today, gone tomorrow—to the Nets...or wherever

CBS dumped Brent Musburger at the Final Four

Wisconsin squeezed Colgate 7-3 for the NCAA title

Penn State skewered Columbia for the NCAA fencing title

Shelby, Mont., is a little western town (pop. 3,000) north of the Marias River, in Blackfoot country, just 35 miles south of the Canadian border. It is high plains country, Chinook country, where...

Lou Jost studies—and fights for—the rain forest