Several conferences have a new look after an off-season of mergers and acquisitions, defections and divisions. The Sun Belt lost five teams, then merged with the American South. The Metro lost...

The players from Virginia union in Richmond knew they had a dynamite team because, after all, last season they had advanced to the Division II Final Four with a junior transfer and four red-shirt...

1. Virginia Union2. Bellarmine3. North Alabama4. Bridgeport5. Philadelphia Textile 6. North Dakota7. Johnson C. Smith8. Florida Southern9. Kentucky Wesleyan10. Cal State-Bakersfield

The Editorial cartoonist of the Anchor, the student newspaper of Hope College in Holland, Mich., never directs his sarcasm toward the school's basketball coach, Glenn Van Wieren, even though Van...

1. Franklin & Marshall2. Calvin3. Wisconsin—Platteville4. Hamilton5. UC-San Diego6. Scranton7. Salem State8. Emory & Henry9. Hope10. Rochester

Four Autumns ago Penn State coach Rene Portland drove the half hour it takes to get from Doddridge County High in West Union, W.Va.—HOME OF THE MOST FRIENDLY AND COURTEOUS STUDENTS IN WEST...

1. Tennessee2. Virginia3. Penn State4. Western Kentucky5. Auburn 6. Georgia7. Vanderbilt8. Stanford9. Lamar10. Connecticut

In the Tumbleweed-Strewn precincts in which junior college basketball flourishes, there are two very different schools of thought regarding Connors State College and its men's basketball team....

1. Garden City2. Odessa3. Southern Idaho4. Allegany5. Seminole6. Rend Lake7. Butler County8. Imperial Valley9. Aquinas10. Barton County

Hard Lessons

They Even Played Football

In the last eight years, Maryland has produced five quarterbacks who are playing in the NFL, including three who started in Sunday's games. The rest of the ACC combined has four alumni...

Scout's Honor

Bowl Race Disgrace

OFFENSETy Detmer, Brigham Young's senior quarterback and last year's Heisman Trophy winner, completed 31 of 54 passes for 599 yards and six TDs as the Cougars overcame a 28-point deficit to tie...

Playing time is the dream of the Division I walk-on. Bench time is the reality

GroundedIntrepid British ski jumper Eddie (the Eagle) Edwards, whose flamboyant last-place finishes at the 1988 Winter Olympics made him a worldwide cult hero. Embarrassed by the pink-spectacled...

John WerleSAN MATEO, CALIF.Werle, 47, coached the girls' volleyball team at San Francisco University High to its 100th win in 101 matches. His Red Devils' lone loss was to Crystal Springs Uplands...

To many women, Earvin Johnson's behavior was simply irresponsible

In Northern Ireland, people are working to make sports a common denominator for Protestants and Catholics

Need a lift? An invention helps spectators in wheelchairs follow the action

Magic (cont.)

[Thumb Up]To the Continental Basketball Association, for joining with the National Consortium for Academics and Sports at Northeastern University to provide CBA players with free tuition to...

There's Air Force One, the President's plane, and now there's North Stars Won, the charter plane for Minnesota's 1991 Stanley Cup runner-ups. On Oct. 19, after the North Stars were defeated 5-2 by...

Tattoos. In some cultures they are decoration, in others they're an indication of status. Sometimes they're the indelible reminders of a drunken evening or a tour in the merchant marine. Here are...

Chuck Noll, Pittsburgh Steeter coach, expressing disapproval of quarterbacks-who scramble: "We don't want jazz musicians. We want classical musicians."

The cover of our Nov. 30, 1981, issue, the college basketball preview, featured North Carolina coach Dean Smith and four starters from the team that would go on that season to give Smith his only...

In a battle of unbeatens, Miami dashed Florida State's national championship hopes with a thrilling 17-16 win

The Wastebasket in the far corner of assistant Photo Editor Brad Smith's office is surrounded by crumpled pieces of paper. Further inspection reveals that there's nothing in the basket. It's not...

It was, oh, brother, an NHL record—Most Sutters Involved, One Game: Six

The up-and-down New York Giants were headed in the right direction again after a 22-9 victory over the Dallas Cowboys

In the last two decades, college basketball has been transformed from a game of control and finesse to a battle of strength and power. Maybe it was never ballet, but now it's a slam-dance.

Braves and TomahawksIn response to the justifiable outcry of Native Americans over the Atlanta Braves' name and the offensive use of the tomahawk symbol (POINT AFTER, Oct. 28), I suggest the...

Duke's Christian Laettner is pivotman and paradox: agile giant, trash-talking preppy, angelic bruiser

Michigan's Steve Fisher answered critics of his recruiting by bringing in the biggest haul of blue-chippers ever

Southern California's Lisa Leslie is the kind of player who can elevate the women's game to greater heights

The bold Eagle quarterback looks back in wonder at what he has accomplished in the NFL and promises to accomplish more once his knee has healed

As good as Lisa Leslie is, on many nights she is not even the best player in Los Angeles. For two years running, Rehema Stephens, a 5'11" senior guard for UCLA, has led the Pac-10 in scoring. Last...

Few foes, if any, will stop LSU's 7'1" Shaquille O'Neal this year. And some only hope not to be eaten alive

With no titan like UNLV looming over all, this season should culminate in as wide-open an NCAA tournament as college basketball has ever produced. But can the likes of LSU, Seton Hall, UCLA or...