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Off Course

[Thumb Up]To Sidney Moncrief of the Atlanta Hawks, for donating all of the proceeds from his autobiography, Moncrief (August House Publishers), to the Arkansas Food Bank and the Hunger Task Force...

National Sportsmanship Day was observed on April 24 in more than 2,000 U.S. schools. With that in mind, here are 10 examples of sportsmanship.

Joseph Guylas was such a frequent patron of Thistledown racetrack in Cleveland that his recent obituary in the Akron Beacon Journal read: "In lieu of flowers, it is suggested that a small wager in...

The ominous CATASTROPHE IN BOSTON billing on our April 26, 1971, cover referred to the defending Stanley Cup champion Bruins' loss to the Montreal Canadiens in the first round of the playoffs....

George Brett, Royals first baseman, on his performance in the Bob Hope Classic: "I was three over—one over a house, one over a patio and one over a swimming pool."

Evander Holyfield discovered that George Foreman was to be taken seriously

This could be the year of the eunuch at a wide-open Kentucky Derby

As apartheid crumbles South Africa emerges from years as a sports pariah

In Soweto, south africa, a vast black settlement outside Johannesburg, SI senior writer William Oscar Johnson last week came upon an elemental sports scene. A dozen children, eight to 10 years of...

The Dallas Cowboys went on the attack in the NFL draft and took all the right prisoners

Without question, the NFL was fascinated with Raghib (Rocket) Ismail, the 5'10", 175-pound receiver and kick returner from Notre Dame. The moment he announced he was leaving school a year early to...

A new home is helping the White Sox forge their own identity in Chicago

That's all it takes for a player to suffer the NBA's most feared injury—a torn anterior cruciate ligament

Less than four minutes into the 76ers' fourth game, in Milwaukee on Nov. 8, Johnny Dawkins reached back for a pass, absorbed a little push from Jay Humphries of the Bucks while going up for a shot...

That Championship GameRegarding Curry Kirkpatrick's story on the defeat of all-white Kentucky by all-black Texas Western for the 1966 NCAA basketball title (The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,...

The only way to keep Jack Nicklaus from continuing to tear up the Senior tour is to gang up on him

Ring in the New

The Rocket Keeps Firing

Joined at the HipUtilitymen Curtis Wilkerson and Lloyd McClendon, teammates last year with the Cubs, now play for the Pirates. "I knew there would be trouble when we signed him [as a free agent],"...

Billie Jean King has been a dynamo as a tennis champion, promoter, television commentator, businesswoman and feminist, but she may be even more compelling in her latest career: teaching

HonoredBy the Clown Hall of Fame, in Delavan, Wis., with its Laughter Achievement Award, Max Patkin, 71, the Clown Prince of Baseball (SI, June 6,1988). Patkin, who hasn't missed a gig in 46...

Brandon MullerLONGVIEW, TEXASBrandon, a senior pitcher on the Pine Tree High baseball team, set an East Texas League record by striking out 21 batters in seven innings to help the Pirates beat...

George Foreman made the fight a feast for the fans