Everyone at Wimbledon's Centre Court must now be seated
LEAN AND TOO HUNGRY
•Bobby Rahal, race-car driver, whose wife, Debi, sprained her neck in a fall from a horse: "I just told her she's going to have to find a safer sport."
Special invitee Hale Irwin became the oldest U.S, Open champion by beating Mike Donald on the 19th playoff hole
A four-game series with the division-leading A's left the White Sox sagging
Detroit repeated as NBA champ, but the headlines weren't all favorable
It was one of the ugliest episodes in Detroit since 43 people died during the civil rights uprising of 1967. But this time there was no possibly redeeming social revolution behind the violence. It...
History is served as KO artists Mike Tyson and George Foreman connect
June 25, 1990
DRESSED TO KILLI admired Rick Telander's story about killing for sports attire (Senseless, May 14) and the challenge it poses for the business community. At one point Telander asks, "Should we...
The U.S. got a lift from a face-saving World Cup loss to powerful Italy
PETER ELLIOTT, A BLUE-COLLAR BLOKE, MAY BE IN A CLASS ALL HIS OWN IN THE MILE AND 1,500
June 25, 1990 | Hank Hersch
Pittsburgh's Barry Bonds sees those numbers coming
Statistics galore have replaced the prose of yore
Carl Lewis and two unlikely decathletes starred at the troubled TAC championships
CLOSER SHAVES
SEMISWEET SEASONWhen the Pacific Candy Co. introduced the Wade Boggs .352 candy bar this February, it used that number because it was Boggs's lifetime batting average entering this season. At...
June 25, 1990 | David Levine
Attention, shoppers: Miniature golf is now available
Move over Bo Knows and Neon Deion. Make room for the common man's cross trainer, San Francisco rookie John Burkett (right), one of the hottest pitchers in the National League. At week's end,...
Wisconsin used a power 20 to beat Harvard
Poachers on the west coast of Nicaragua threaten the future of a species
BY SWEEPING UP THE TV SPORTS MARKET, NEAL PILSON (LEFT) AND HIS BOSS, LAURENCE TISCH, COULD MAKE CBS A VERY BIG WINNER. OR A VERY BIG LOSER
CBS is outspending ABC and NBC for lights to all top-drawer spoils except college football and the NBA
This year CBS will carry more than half the total hours of sports that will be shown on the three major networks
That cozy diamond has reappeared 15 miles north
June 25, 1990 | Jeff Ryan
Only true fans know Jeff Fenech holds three world titles
PRO BASKETBALL—The DETROIT PISTONS defeated the Portland Trail Blazers four games to one to win the NBA championship (page 32).
June 25, 1990
KYLE JERMYNBILOXI, Miss.Kyle, 6, scored four goals in leading Kid Konnection to a 6-2 victory in the championship match of the 5-6 age group in the Ocean Springs Soccer Organization. He had 31...
Nolan Ryan's no-hitter was tonic for the over-40's