The Braves took a 3-2 lead in their National League showdown with the Pirates

The A's and the Jays, two teams for whom next year is too late, dueled in the ALCS

For the second week in a row, Miami made the big plays—and the big hits—to beat a Top 5 team

Here's the poop on the fouled-up Cincinnati Reds and owner Marge Schott. It's a messy tale

When Lion nosetackle Jerry Ball comes to play, somebody has to pay

Another Ismail, the Rocket's brother, the Missile, has taken off at Syracuse

Don't worry if you nod off during the baseball playoffs, they'll still be on when you come to

Amid the violence and despair of inner-city Los Angeles, young men find brotherhood on the vaunted Dorsey High football team

The Rails-to-Trails Conservancy turns old railbeds into scenic biking and hiking paths

Pleasant Tap proved himself a trouper with a big win

FOOLING PHILLY

THE WISH LIST

Major leaguer Jesse Barfield uses Yankee ingenuity in designing his unusual furniture

A North Carolina golf club, the last one owned and run by blacks, is struggling

At Hartwick College the reinstatement of football has succeeded in boosting student enrollment

Andy Van SlykeThanks for the fantastic article about Pittsburgh Pirate centerfielder Andy Van Slyke (Playing for Laughs, Sept. 21). He is the kind of down-to-earth, family-oriented, Christian...

TUNE IN TOMORROW

OFFENSENortheast Louisiana quarterback Wendal Lowrey, a senior, completed 15 of 21 passes for 352 yards and five TDs to lead the Indians to a 52-35 win over McNeese State.

THE TIGERS' NEW RAG

Richard Petty is closing his remarkable 35-year reign over stock car racing with a regal tour

Nontoxic, cheap and fun, slingshots fling pesky insects into the great beyond

As his cars blew by everybody else's, Dale Armstrong became drag racing's ultimate grease monkey

A tennis neophyte chucked his career to try to make it onto the pro tour. He's still trying

FinishedIn fourth place, Bubba Clinton, a 2-year-old colt, in the first harness race of his career, at Garden State Park. Although Bubba was bothered that the leaders kicked dirt in his face, he...

Jamie KoizumiKAILUA-KONA, HAWAIIJamie, 17, and already a freshman at Duke, won the U.S. Golf Association girls' junior crown by defeating Alicia Allison, 16, of Santa Ana, Calif., 5 and 4. She...

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the NHL can make it on TV—with a few alterations

Orange CrushedThe Syracuse basketball program, slapped on the wrists two weeks ago by the NCAA for assorted rules violations, was dealt another stinging blow Monday when the NCAA announced that...

Denny Crum, University of Louisville basketball coach, addressing attendees at the team's tip-off luncheon: "First I'd like to welcome my assistant coaches...all 2,000 of you."