Nancy Welch WilliamsWEST LONG BRANCH, N.J.Williams, 47, won her 1,000th game as a coach on Sept. 14, when her Shore Regional High field hockey team beat Holmdel High 1-0 on a goal by Richelle...

Joseph Harold Ake, 96, was once one of Pennsylvania's most illustrious athletes

Kristine Lilly was the lone woman in the Continental indoor league in 1995

Streak Stoppers

OffenseTennessee sophomore quarterback Peyton Manning completed 35 of 46 passes for 384 yards and four touchdowns as the favored Volunteers came back to beat Arkansas 49-31.

Grambling Coach Eddie Robinson's 400th win, which he got last Saturday by beating Mississippi Valley State 42-6, is only one of the milestones that he has reached in his 54-year coaching career....

"Take me out to the ball game? Buy me some peanuts and a flak jacket"

The Verdict

Belle and Larkin: Put 'em Up

Grateful for the mustachioed sports artist's $6 million gift, Columbia University has created the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies and endowed a LeRoy Neiman Professorship.

A wild start to the postseason—mostly concealed by an idiotic TV deal—was capped by a memorable Mariner comeback

Everyone in tiny Pierson, Fla., knew that Chipper Jones was a can't-miss kid, even when he was only 11 years old. As an eighth-grader he started on the high school varsity baseball team. By 15 he...

Heads still turn when he walks into the crowded Cleveland Indian clubhouse. Isn't that...? What's he doing here? He has been with the Indians all season, but he still seems to belong lo a...

The next time Cincinnati Red lefthander David Wells shaves off his mustache—as he had to when he joined the clean-shaven Reds in July—he might just store the clippings in a Baggie and flick them...

Cigar blazed to victory in the Jockey Club Gold Cup, a race that ended the career of Thunder Gulch

In the spring of 1983 staff writer Tim Crothers, then a sophomore at North Carolina, strode smartly into the offices of The Daily Tar Heel, clutching his first story, an unsolicited editorial on...

Upsets became the norm on a wild weekend, with Kansas leading the way

Who knows how far Northwestern can go after road wins over Notre Dame and Michigan?

This year marks the 75th anniversary of Ray Chapman's fatal beaning

In 1945 a group of U.S. soldiers liberated 375 Lipizzans from Nazi captivity

Nike turns old and defective shoes into high-quality athletic surfaces

South Africa's Lee McGregor waited decades to meet the world's best

Nocturnal excursions are the latest craze for California mountain bikers

Top NBA pick Joe Smith enters the league with a home court advantage: his mom, Letha

After sitting out the last 18 months, Mario Lemieux is finally healthy again—and still a force

While quarterbacks drop like flies, angry defenders take big hits to the wallet from the NFL office

To say that John Elway is beyond Johnny Unitas is football blasphemy.CARL WHITEHEAD JR. ARLINGTON, VA.

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That's what the Colts did in rallying from far behind to edge the previously unbeaten Dolphins

Chinese athletes and coaches are increasingly subject to the ills and temptations that afflict sports in the West

Downturn of the Cards

Roaring and Scoring

Making the Return Of a Lifetime