Cleaning Up the Act

The cover model for the NCAA's Official 1994 College Football Records Book, Demetrea Shelton, a star receiver last season for North Alabama, has been declared academically ineligible and will play...

Ken Griffey Jr.Seattle Mariner centerfielder, on the effect of the baseball strike on the stellar seasons he and Chicago White Sox first baseman Frank Thomas were enjoying: "We picked a bad year...

Take heart, baseball fans. Here, in your hour of need, is the thrilling conclusion to the '94 season. You won't believe what happens

While major leaguers are striking, minor leaguers like Chris Truby, of the Class A Auburn (N.Y.) Astros, still salute the flag before pursuing a labor of love.

With the NFL's best quarterbacks nearing retirement age, the league is facing a talent shortage at the most important position

There's no stopping Nick Price, who ran away with the PGA

Dream Team II, as expected, won the world championships in a real laugher

Careful readers of our masthead in this issue will notice a small typographical change that in fact signals a major one in Time Inc.'s publishing leadership: the title of CEO moves from chairman...

Five years after their Little League World Series win, Team Trumbull has seen some changes

Now that she is the only person in the 57-year history of the All-American Soap Box Derby to win at the nationals in Rubber City two years running, maybe somebody could explain to Danielle Del...

The punch came straight from a Saturday-morning cartoon, a fist in an Acme boxing glove hitting Mr. Wile E. Coyote straight on the button and sending him into an exaggerated flip that was followed...

George Mikan leans his 6'10" frame over a small metal desk, adjusts his thick glasses and combs the sports pages of The Chicago Tribune. "Ah, there it is!" he says triumphantly. "But only for the...

In this 1978 SI Classic, Jimmy Connors struggles to regain the confidence he learned as a pampered child

Paula PattersonVANCOUVER, WASH.Paula, 18, won the Oregon women's amateur golf championship with a 3-and-2 victory over Amy Lawrence in the finals of the match-play tournament. Patterson, who will...

Strike or no strike, the national pastime is alive and well in the Northern League

The baseball walkout forced one studious observer to consider his options

This is the way the World Cup ends—not with a bang but a whimper. (My apologies to T.S. Eliot.)SCOTT SAILOR, AMES, IOWA