If ever a man gave brutality a good name, it was Jack Dempsey.JESSE WELLS, BETTENDORF, IOWA

John Kundla led the Lakers to five early NBA titles

Tony DaRocha has brought high school running in Boston back from near extinction

It's time for Ole Miss to acknowledge what the Rebel flag truly stands for and ban it

OCTOBER 2, 1978

Saturday 11/1

When we heard the names MTV and S&M Festival (Friday. 8 p.m. to 11 p.m., and Saturday, noon to 7 p.m.) in the same sentence, we naturally assumed that it must be Marilyn Manson theme week. Ah,...

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and CNN team up on the Internet to offer up-to-the-minute sports news and stats as well as stories and photos from the magazine. You can also find SI articles and photos on...

NBA Agents Talk Strategy...Michigan's Intrusive Search...Hudson River Book...Game-time Temperatures...Don King: Celluloid Hero...Jordan's Endorsements

2Left arms that had to be surgically reattached after being torn off two of the 1,600 participants in a mass tug-of-war in Taipei, Taiwan.

The temperature in Cleveland for Game 4 of the World Series was the coldest in the history of the Fall Classic. Here's a look at some of sport's most thermometrically memorable moments.

Moviegoers have been confronted recently with a succession of Kings. Don Kings, that is. In the past seven years the polysyllabically malapropian boxing promoter with the high-rise hair has...

According to a recent survey by Boating magazine, a married boat owner is more likely to carry a wallet photograph of his boat than of his spouse or children.

Clem HaskinsUniversity of Minnesota basketball coach, on coaching salaries: "As much money as we make—and I understand the people who say it's too much—it's also not enough."

The Riverkeepers, by John Cronin and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; Scribner, 279 pp.; $25

The Marlins' stirring, 11th-inning come-from-behind defeat of the Indians in Game 7 redeemed an otherwise lackluster Series

Julia HawkinsBATON ROUGEHawkins, 81, was a double cycling gold medalist in the women's 80-84 division at the Senior Olympics. She won the 5 km (12:40.65) and the 10 km (24:16.42) to bring to 10...

After 33 years in pro baseball, Marlins manager Jim Leyland finally won the big one

A resolute, Latino-dominated crowd spurred D.C. to its second MLS title

After a grueling week of pain and preparation, Michigan State put its pride and hopes on the line against Michigan

There's no region on Earth too remote to merit a Lonely Planet travel guide

Quarterback Kordell Stewart, starting slowly as usual rallied the Steelers past the Jaguars and into first place in the AFC Central

John LeClair of the Flyers has become a force at power forward and a hero in his home state

Multisport star Johnny Hero was the granddaddy of today's sports action figures

Villeneuve wins F/1 title, Too fast in Atlanta?, The end for Emmo

Time, in thousandths of a second, that it takes Tony Schumacher to react to the green light and start his Top Fuel dragster moving down the quarter-mile strip. By the time one second has elapsed,...

When Emerson Fittipaldi began racing in Formula One in 1970, the odds were one in seven that any given driver would not survive the season. But the Brazilian lived through 11 years on that circuit...

Tagliabue wants to put an expansion team in Cleveland, Gamble pays off for McNeil, The value of Ricky Watters

Take away the glory years from 1984 to 1991, when the troika of Jim McMahon, Mike Tomczak and Jim Harbaugh led the Bears into the playoffs seven times, and Chicago has had as disastrous a...

1. PURPLE POWER PLAYYou'd think Dennis Green's controversial book would distract the Vikings, but history says otherwise. Last year, after rumors surfaced that team owners were feeling out Lou...

The author never knew why a fellow writer ruined his year on the dream beat

Oilers center Mark Stepnoski hasn't earned five consecutive Pro Bowl selections by steamrolling mammoth defenders. As the smallest starting offensive lineman in the NFL, the 6'2", 269-pound...

At one point this looked like one of the marquee games of the season. Cowboys-49ers. Kind of quickens the pulse, doesn't it? The teams have met seven times in the past five years, an inordinate...

The loss of Syracuse would hurt an already staggering Big East, BU bows out, Longhorns on the short end

California, Florida, Pennsylvania and Texas might be considered the top high school football hotbeds, but when it comes to the college game, Ohio has the most Top 25 teams this season. The Buckeye...

FLORIDA STATE'S BOOMING PLACEKICKER

•WEST VIRGINIA (6-1) AT SYRACUSE (5-3)If the Mountaineers win their last three conference games, against Syracuse, Temple and Pittsburgh, they'll lock up the Big East's spot in an alliance bowl....

THE WORLD WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIPS, IN SIBERIA, WERE NO PLACE FOR A U.S. ATHLETE TO FIND FAME, FORTUNE OR EVEN BASIC AMENITIES

Will Gary McCord give up TV to lead an increasingly colorless Senior tour out of the wilderness?

In Las Vegas all that counted was where your name ended up on the final money list

New Captain, Did Philosophy?

On his way to tying the record for most Senior tour victories in a season (nine), Hale Irwin became the first golfer to surpass $2 million in official earnings. Should he collect another $441,481...

0Dollars that Chip Beck has won on the Tour since finishing 45th in the Honda Classic in March, a span of 24 starts.

What do these players have in common?

•BEN CRENSHAW: Good thing they don't have playoffs in Ryder Cup matches. Our new captain is 0-8 in overtime.

When I attended last week's LPGA Q school finals in Daytona Beach, I could only marvel at the strides made by women's professional golf since I was a tour rookie in 1977. The young women who are...

Kelli Kuehne and Se Ri Pak graduated with honors from the LPGA Q school