The mountain goat, say Olympic National Park officials, threatens the park's ecology

At The Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle, visitors can take the exhibits for a sail on Lake Union

Baseball's black and Hispanic stars have to speak up if their brethren are to get front-office jobs

New Urgency

•Jack O'Connell in the Hartford Courant, musing on the Cincinnati Reds' off-season acquisition of a centerfielder from the New York Yankees: "Luckiest guy in baseball is Roberto Kelly [left],...

•Jimmy Soto, University of Utah basketball guard, on why he gave up baseball, even though he's better in that sport: "I got bored standing around chewing sunflower seeds."

Kentucky ran roughshod over the Southeast Regional, earning the favorite's role among a quartet of perennial powers in the strongest Final Four ever

If you push him, Ray Jackson will tell you about all the nights he lit up those high school gyms around Austin, Texas. He was the scorer then, the star. When reporters came to his school, LBJ...

As Kansas rolled through the Midwest Regional, guard Rex Walters took more shots during his press conferences than he did on the floor. His primary targets were the television touts who had...

George Lynch has been sneaking up on people his whole life. Actually, longer than his whole life. He sneaked up on his mother, who didn't suspect she was even going to have a baby until she was...

If you were looking for a smooth ride to New Orleans last week, you couldn't have done better than to take a Travis Ford, a subcompact that handles well in traffic and has terrific acceleration....

Nick Price, long known as Mr. Runner-up, used brilliant shotmaking to dominate a star-studded leader board at the TPC

THERE ARE NO SURE BETS IN PITCHING, BUT THE BRAVES HAVE DEALT THEMSELVES QUITE A HAND

"Bobby Cox is holding a hell of a hand," says Pittsburgh Pirate manager Jim Leyland of the Atlanta Brave skipper. Leyland, perhaps inspired by his team's circular, green-felt-covered ballpark,...

Ulf SamuelssonJon Scher's article about Ulf Samuelsson of the Pittsburgh Penguins (Mr. Dirty, March 1) both pleased and enraged me. As a longtime Samuelsson hater, I was happy to sec his goonery...

WHY DON'T TEAMS USE THE FOUR-MAN ROTATION ANYMORE? BECAUSE NOBODY HAS THE GUTS TO TRY IT

WHO WAS THE FIRST DESIGNATED HITTER? RON BLOMBERG'S NAME MAY BE A BIT OF TRIVIA, BUT THE IMPACT OF THE DH SINCE '73 HAS NOT BEEN TRIVIAL

Here are some other designated-hitter-related odds and ends that have become a part of baseball lore.

CBS golf telecasts can be cheerfully loony affairs when spacey Gary McCord chips in

WHEN THEY ARE ALLOWED TO TAKE THEIR CUTS, PITCHERS MAKE THE BEST ARGUMENT YET IN SUPPORT OF THE DESIGNATED HITTER

LIKE CLEMENTE BEFORE HIM, RANGER SLUGGER JUAN GONZALEZ IS A HERO AND AN EXEMPLAR TO HIS COUNTRYMEN

IN A TIGHT RACE, THE TWINS HAVE THE MAN TO LEAD THEM

The stretch run at the 1933 Kentucky Derby was a battle royal as rival jockeys grappled with each other

Charles Mainah hopes his role in a feature film will win him a basketball scholarship

Freddie WilliamsMISSISSAUGA, ONT.Williams, 31 and a high school math teacher, used his lunch break to win a quarterfinal heat in the 800-meter run at the World Indoor Championships in Toronto. His...

THE ORIOLES ARE READY TO BRING DOWN THE BLUE JAYS

TRAGEDY DREW THE CLOSE-KNIT INDIANS EVEN CLOSER

LARRY WALKER ALWAYS DREAMED OF PLAYING IN MONTREAL—FOR A HOCKEY TEAM

THE ST. LOUIS SOUTHPAWS WILL HELP THE CARDS EDGE MONTREAL

THE BRAVES AIM AT 100 WINS AND MORE THAN A PENNANT

STRIKEOUT KING DAVID CONE HOPES THE NEWS HE MAKES AS A KANSAS CITY ROYAL WILL BE ABOUT BASEBALL, NOT OFF-THE-FIELD SHENANIGANS