It's time athletic directors considered top women coaches for men's college basketball jobs

Ron MasonHASLETT, MICH.Mason, 53, coached the Michigan State hockey team to a 6-5 win over Kent State for his 674th career win, a national collegiate hockey record. In 27 seasons at three...

Boats and Bikes

•Tim McDonald, in the Florida Times-Union, after Vinny Testaverde (above), a six-year bust with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, signed last week with the Cleveland Browns: "Testaverde looks like a...

With a front-page headline IRON MALIK, the New York Post reported last week that Mike Tyson was converting to Islam and changing his name to Malik Abdul Aziz. But Tyson's lawyer, Alan Dershowitz,...

•Charles Schulz, creator of Peanuts, on last week's strip in which Charlie Brown (below) hit his first home run after 43 years as the comics' most hapless jock: "I think it's a mistake to be...

When Chris Webber called a timeout his team didn't have, Michigan was hit with a technical foul that clinched the national title for North Carolina

He had secluded himself in a guarded room off the Michigan locker room, ducking the reporters who were waiting impatiently for him, and now, about an hour after the NCAA championship game, Chris...

Old knuckleballer Charlie Hough showed the new Marlins and their boisterous fans how to win on the first Opening Day in the Sunshine State

Back in the spring of 1962, an 11-year-old boy who was a bit of a statistical smart aleck looked at the roster of the first-year New York Mets and let himself dream. After all, Richie Ashburn,...

Sheryl Swoopes was the name of the game as she led Texas Tech to the women's NCAA title

No group of NFL players is enjoying the riches of free agency more than offensive linemen

In 1953 the Detroit Lions won the NFL championship, and guard Dick Stanfel, the club's most valuable player, earned a salary of $10,000. In 1963 the Chicago Bears won the title, and center Mike...

The Charlotte Hornets' Muggsy Bogues—all 5'3" of him—is proof that size does not have to determine who reaches great NBA heights

By blustering and bluffing, outspoken manager Rock Newman has guided Bowe to the heavyweight title

At 14, Royce Sharp wanted to be a swimmer like crazy. "Unfortunately I was totally whacked at the time," says Sharp, the U.S.-record holder in the 200-meter backstroke. "I hung out in Houston with...

As a mormon missionary in Australia for the past 23 months, 7'6" Shawn Bradley has ministered to Aboriginal families in the outback, comforted a heroin addict in Sydney and picked leeches off his...

His is unfair.... that's what you think the first time you see Michele Granger pitch in a softball game. The 5'11" University of California senior stands on the mound, scowling like St. Louis...

Mention swordplay as depicted on the silver screen and Columbia University fencer Ben Atkins will make a purist's grimace. Still, his own flair for drama is worthy of Errol Flynn. At the NCAA...

Alan Kulwicki went south in 1985 to pursue his NASCAR dream when a dream was all he had. He had sold most of his belongings back home in Greenfield, Wis., and two days before he set out for...

The Black Bears dethroned Lake Superior to win their first NCAA championship

TOO MUCH TALKIN'?

As the season winds down, some coaches should worry about job security

On Opening Day in Baltimore, Bill Clinton threw out the first pitch, continuing a grand American tradition that began with presidents and has gone on to include actors, animals and cartoon characters

Air Ball?Wait a minute! You finally give the Cleveland Cavaliers some overdue attention (Can the Cavs Finally Jam? March 15), and they come off as hayseeds from the set of Hee Haw. In Cleveland we...