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Below are four of the 72 good dogs who had their day at the National Obedience Invitational held last weekend in St. Louis.

A Ball's Bearing

An Illinois-based memorabilia company is marketing Major League Baseball's officially licensed Mickey Mantle Sluggers Series beer steins.

DENNIS MITCHELLU.S. sprinter, after winning the 100 meters at the Olympic track and field trials in Atlanta last Saturday: I'm Barcelona-bound!"

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After they had subdued the surprisingly feisty Sonics for their fourth NBA title in six years, the Bulls popped their corks over their record-setting '95-96 season

Roy Jones Jr. took moonlighting to a new level

The Bengals' Ki-Jana Carter, his first year erased by injury, is jumping back into the fray

Inspired by a four-time U.S. Open champ, Steve Jones held on for an unlikely victory at Oakland Hills

Spending the summer in New York City as one of our editorial interns may seem like a vacation for Joanna Stamman, considering what she went through to get here. Stamman, a 1996 graduate of...

While old stars stumbled, sprinters Dennis Mitchell and Gwen Torrence raced onto the Olympic team with blistering 100s

When dad coaches son, an unsavory kind of hardball may be the result

Andrew Shue, a hunk on Melrose Place, gets his real kicks with the L.A. Galaxy

Entomologist George O'Meara knows where the bugs bite most—Flamingo, Fla.

Decathlete Dan O'Brien blew his shot at the 1992 Olympics, but he's determined not to let history repeat itself

Thanks to their decathlon talent and the alliterative one-two punch of their all-American names, they became the stars of track and field's catchiest ad campaign: Dan and Dave—To Be Settled in...

Hard-driving Pat Croce, trainer turned team president, hopes the No. 1 pick will rev up his sluggish Sixers

Here's an early line on how next Wednesday's NBA draft may go. A caveat: There's a good chance that trades (some possibilities are noted) could alter the order of selection.

Phil Jackson's syncretism is at least as nutty an act as Dennis Rodman's.WALTER F. BARCZ, MOHNTON, PA.

Forget the juiced ball—it's the bats that may account for all those homers, Special delivery in Texas, Mo better

AFTER HIGH SCHOOL STAR RICHIE PARKER WAS CONVICTED OF SEXUAL ABUSE. THOSE WHO TRIED TO SALVAGE-AND SAVAGE-HIS BASKETBALL CAREER WERE SCARRED BY THEIR EXPERIENCE

The world's elite athletes swarm to Flagstaff, Ariz., for altitude training

An upper-class twit explains British track's banning of U.S. sprinter Michael Johnson

The maddening 18th at Oakland Hills earned its stripes as the toughest finishing hole of them all

G6This CloseTom Lehman and Davis Love III came up a stroke shy

All the funny stuff that occurred during the Open was par for this course

Tiger Woods hinted he might turn pro, then showed he lacks some tools needed on Tour

For Javier Sanchez, getting into the U.S. Open turned out to be easier than getting into the U.S.

The unpolished style of Johnny Miller gave luster to NBC's 16 hours of coverage

A major league effort was needed to salvage opening day at Oakland Hills, Masters bashing, Call him Mr. 29

Are we to believe that a higher power intervened on behalf of Steve Jones?

Davis Love III and Tom Lehman wound up one small stroke shy of a major breakthrough