The Check's in the Mail

Our two cents...you look up opinionated in the dictionary, you get a picture of Larry King, friends. One of Larry's recent offerings in his weekly USA Today column-"The one NBA team I'd fear the...

Jack Nicholson, who recently settled a civil lawsuit in which it was alleged that he bashed the roof and windshield of a car with a golf club during a heated dispute at a traffic light, will host...

Rich DonnellyPittsburgh Pirate third base coach, on retired pitcher Bob Walk's new job in the broadcast booth: "Maybe now he'll get a complete game."

Rattling the Saber

The best friend of an athlete in Dutch is often the local magistrate

Last Saturday's slew of upsets only raised new questions about which team will win the NCAA tournament

One day when Jason Kidd was growing up in the hills outside Oakland, his father, Steve, saddled one of the family's three horses and boosted his son aboard for a nice, easy ride. But Jason was...

President Clinton is hog-wild about the Arkansas Razorbacks and their chances of going all the way

Young B.B. Bonds and Craig Griffey are seeking to join celebrated sibs in the majors to form the latest of baseball's fraternal combos

As trainer Jeff Lukas recovers from near-fatal injuries, the horse that trampled him, Tabasco Cat, has emerged as one of the favorites for the Kentucky Derby

"I hope that we Americans can sustain the same spirit in Atlanta as the Norwegians did in Lillehammer."RAYMOND D. BAECHLER, EAST GREENBUSH. N.Y.

St. Louis's signing of Petr Nedved caused a week of tension on the team and lingering controversy around the league

After a decade of trying to make it in the macho world of motor sports, Shawna Robinson thought she had finally earned some respect. Last Thursday the 29-year-old Robinson became the first female...

Jack HeidenMADISON, WIS.Heiden, 60, set a world record for lightweight men in the 60-69 age group with a time of 8:39.4 for 2,500 meters on an ergometer, during a qualifying heat at the CRASH-B...

There are no pictures on the walls of the office of new Boston College football coach Dan Henning. A series of small holes indicates that a lot of pictures used to hang from those walls, but the...

Ray Sheppard was once bought for a buck. As in four quarters. A crummy eight bits. In 1990 New York Ranger general manager Neil Smith actually paid that paltry sum for Sheppard. Then, during the...

Whether as a winner in college or a loser in the NBA, Christian Laettner, the Minnesota Timberwolves' much-maligned forward, has always been his own man

This SI Classic from 1967 chronicled the life and times of Howard Cosell, the controversial and sometimes bombastic sportscaster