December 23, 1991 | Volume 75, Issue 27

Bruce Smith, Minnesota's greatest football player, remains the author's unsullied hero

DiedThe man who ended Joe DiMaggio's record 56-game hitting streak, former Cleveland Indians third baseman Ken Keltner, 75; on Dec. 12; at his home near Milwaukee. A seven-time All-Star, Keltner...

Chad DavisMIRA MESA, CALIF.Chad, senior quarterback at Mira Mesa High, threw for 108 yards in a 28-21 win over Rancho Buena Vista High to break the state career passing record set by Todd...

Why expect athletes to be role models, when they could scarcely be less suited to the task?

[Thumb up]To FIFA, the international soccer federation, for its recent presentation of a $1 million check to UNICEF. The money was raised at an October all-star game in Munich.

Santa Claus is to town, and depending on how good a sports fan you've been this year, here are 10 new gift items he might bring you

Linda Hill-McDonald, Minnesota's women's basketball coach, on last year's 6-22 team: "Things got so bad that I had to play my student manager for a while. They got really bad when she started to...

One can't help but admire the principles of Los Angeles Ram head coach John Robinson. Even though the Rams are now 3-13 and his job is in obvious jeopardy, Robinson has refused the request of team...

SI's first solo Sportswoman of the Year award went to Chris Evert, who posed in period garb for our cover of Dec. 20-27, 1976. (Billie jean King had shared the honor in '72 with John Wooden.) At...

Michigan's five freshmen are hungry for success, and they almost feasted on No.1 Duke

Ithaca gave Coach 'Butts' his third Division III title by beating Dayton's cigar butts'

The Pittsburg State Gorillas mauled Jacksonville State to win the Division II title

THE HOLOGRAM—OR THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE—ON this week's cover is not only a first for SI but also one of the most ambitious holograms ever mass-produced: a full-color image of a live subject in...

The NFL is not exactly heading into the same sort of recession that has gripped most of the rest of America, but it's noteworthy that commissioner Paul Tagliabue no longer says a labor agreement...

Battle Royal

MENJustus Thigpen, a 6'2" junior guard for Iowa State, scored 26 points in a 96-82 victory over Texas-Arlington and had 28 points and five steals in a 98-84 defeat of previously undefeated and...

Wily Mike McCallum drew with IBF middleweight champ James Toney

Magic JohnsonI applaud Magic Johnson for being honest about having contracted the AIDS virus (I'll Deal With It, Nov. 18). It takes a big man to announce that he has this disease. I am sorry that...