November 27, 1995 | Volume 83, Issue 23

The provisional Olympic sport of ballroom dancing makes the author feel regal

Former NBA forward Tom Meschery, long a poet, is now an English teacher

Kara Wolters, a testament to the power of self-improvement, is the new player to watch at UConn

In A wide-open race for the women's title, we like Georgia

Southern Indiana is on track for a second straight title under controversial coach Bruce Pearl

Kevin Folkl will play the star role as Washington University eyes another postseason run

1. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar2. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar3. Valerie Wafer4. Swen Nater5. Cash Warren6. Mike Warren7. Rasheed Hazzard8. Walt Hazzard9. John Wooden10. Nathan Walton11. Adam Walton12. Bill...

Answer key (with photo credits in parentheses) for pages 90-91. Should be read from top to bottom.

Fisher's Travails

With the college football season winding down, NFL teams have a pretty good idea which players will be taken in the first round of the April draft. Illinois linebacker Kevin Hardy (above) is at...

The Top 10 List

OffenseWake Forest senior quarterback Rusty LaRue completed 50 of 67 passes for an ACC-record 545 yards and three TDs in a 52-23 loss to North Carolina State.

With former Georgia passer Eric Zeier's promising start with the Cleveland Browns and the likelihood that Tennessee sophomore Peyton Manning will be a first-round pick some day, the SEC's poor...

The NCAA's policing of players' shirttails is not a tidy solution to what ails college hoops

I know Spurrier doesn't aspire to be a Willy Loman, but he is ridiculously arrogant and rude.MICHAEL D. GOOLSBY, AUBURN, ALA.

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In an effort to learn how to cope with hostile crowds and belligerent players, 19 of England's top soccer referees repaired to a country hotel for a weekend of stress counseling.

Kevin O'NeillTennessee basketball coach, on the effectiveness of benching players as a teaching tool: "It's amazing how quickly a message can travel from the right buttock to the lower base of the...

The World Logrolling Championships make a splash every summer in Wisconsin

Dismissed as too old to make a run at the Super Bowl, the 8-3 Bills are proving their critics wrong

Though Baltimore won the Grey Cup, it must look for a new home

That man pumping iron winners sure looks like the PBA's Walter Ray Williams Jr.

This year women have joined the men on the varsity at Cal State—Bakersfield

Over the past decade a handful of programs have so dominated college basketball that they've taken on almost denominational status. Each has a clannish orthodoxy, with its own cathedrals, holy...

The Top 20 teams are only pan of the field for the NCAA tournament. Who are the other 44, and what kind of bid will they receive?

Caber tossers—big men in skirts—throw telephone poles like matchsticks

Winks wizards on both sides of the Pond face such agonizing dilemmas every day

One of the most terrifying moments in the career of Viking nose-guard Esera Tuaolo did not take place on a football field. It happened on a basketball court in early 1990, when Tuaolo was a junior...