BurnedBy the Kansas City Police Department, 350,000 Bo Jackson baseball cards. The cards were part of a police-supported antidrug campaign, and about 10,000 of them were distributed to kids...

Ann-Marie PfiffnerDUBUQUE, IOWAPfiffner, a junior at West Virginia, scored 391 points out of a possible 400 to win the NCAA individual air rifle event. The Mountaineers beat the University of...

What was a daydream for others became satisfying reality for outdoorsman extraordinaire Lee Wulff

John Davidson has become his sport's top broadcaster, in part by outworking everybody else

Three new books serve up America's pastime in history, fiction and anecdote

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[Thumb Up]To Manute Bol and his Philadelphia 76er teammates for raising $10,000 for famine relief in Bol's native Sudan where nine million people are facing starvation.

Bo Schembechler, Detroit Tiger president, who was a staunch proponent of the ground game when he was Michigan's football coach, after rightfielder Rob Deer dropped a crucial fly ball: "Bad things...

Courtney Hankes pitched six complete games for the UNC-Charlotte softball team, working 41 innings and compiling a 4-2 record—all in one day. That was during the Spring Fling tournament recently...

The NBA playoffs are in full swing, so SI's Jack McCallum asked Red Auerbach, who has won 16 NBA titles with the Celtics, to name the 10 players whom he would most want in the playoffs. Said...

Kauai King, the horse on the rail, appeared on the May 16, 1966, cover after winning the 92nd Kentucky Derby. Said Kauai King's jockey Don Brumfield, "I'm the happiest hillbilly hardboot you have...

Strike the Gold came from far behind to hit pay dirt in the Kentucky Derby

...even one who's aging and aching, is worth more than almost anyone else come playoff time. Just ask the Indiana Pacers

As they began their pursuit of an improbable third straight NBA title, the Pistons needed five games to oust the Hawks

This season, a game is as good as over the moment that Roger Clemens steps out on the mound

Should Minnie Play?I applaud Leigh Montville for his POINT AFTER (April 22) showing how absurd the baseball commissioner's office is being. Fay Vincent's decision not to approve Minnie Minoso's...

Nolan Ryan's no-hitters have rescued a septet of appreciative catchers from obscurity

Notre Dame bungled its search for a basketball coach but still wound up with a winner in John MacLeod

The Oakland Athletics offer an innovative language program to their Latin players who do not speak English

After months of anguish, reporter Lisa Olson sues the Patriots for sexual harassment

Soviet Greco-Roman wrestler Alexander Karelin is a rare combination of massive physique and imposing intellect

A Matter of Style

An August OccasionWhen the Brewers played the White Sox on May 1, Milwaukee's Don August was supposed to be the "extra, extra emergency backup pitcher," as he put it, because he had a tired arm...

Bruce McNall is an acquisitive owner whose tastes run from antiquities to the priciest athletes

An entrepreneurial Swede has built a nine-hole golf course within chipping distance of the Kremlin