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SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and CNN team up on the Internet to offer up-to-the-minute sports news. This week stay on top of the action at the World Series with exclusive analysis from SI's Tom Verducci,...

October 24, 1988

Q: How come nobody said a word last week after the Chatfield (Colo.) High homecoming queen accepted a single white rose at halftime of the football game, locked arms with the king and then ripped...

It's not about race, it's about who gets there first. McGwire got there first. End of story.—Mike Toto, Los Angeles

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Joe Martinez, ChicagoFootballJoe, a senior at St. Laurence High in Burbank, rushed for 314 yards and three touchdowns on 51 carries in the Vikings 22-20 loss to Fenwick High of Oak Park. In six...

DON'T MISSSaturday 10/17World Series•FOX 8 PM; SUNDAY 7:55 PM; TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY 8:20 PMIn 1967 St. Louis's Tim McCarver enjoyed a catcher-cam view of perhaps the most dominating...

18.5 Overnight rating in New York for Sunday's Yankees-Indians American League Championship Series Game 5 on NBC. It flattened the competing Jets-Rams game on CBS, which got a 7.7.

An Erstwhile Ball Stater meets the man who makes balls taters when David Letterman welcomes Mark McGwire to Late Show (CBS, Monday, 11:35 p.m.). Last December on Late Show Letterman tied guest...

Riding on AirCompetitors in the motocross 250 Grand Prix in Megalópolis, Greece, which was won by French teenager Sébastien Tortelli, get a lift out of life.

With microphones in the dugout and characters in the stands, baseball is becoming a sitcom

Carolina's Collins decides he would rather be an armchair quarterback

•That all TV analysts could be as graceful—and informative-as Joe Morgan.

DeBartolo Cuts a DealMore Dirt to Come?

62.5Accuracy percentage at picking NFL game winners of Rasha, an elephant at the Fort Worth Zoo, who makes her choices for The Dallas Morning News by touching team logos with her trunk.

College Campuses are dotted with players who, with visions of Bo and Deion dancing in their heads, split their time between football and pro baseball. For many their career decisions will have...

O Rare Ben Johnson! An interspecies exhibition race scheduled for Oct. 15 is just another stride in a long bumpy run for the 36-year-old Jamaica-born Canadian sprinter.

Stuffs Rodman in MTV's Celebrity Death match; tells Chicago Tribune that neither Jerry Krause nor Tim Floyd will keep him away if he wants to play and that when the lockout ends, he will "look...

A Kappa, III., strip joint includes an indoor putting green for patrons.

GENE ORZABaseball union lawyer, on champagne celebrations: "I don't see it as an occasion for drinking. It's an occasion for spraying."

Gwen Adair, the only active female pro referee, aspires to officiate more title bouts

In this World Series the Pirates always prevail

Most excuses for skipping a run-too hot, too cold, I'm on vacation—are invalid at this time of year, so the highways and byways are crowded with whippetlike Kenyans and spare-tire-toting couch...

Can a single mom—the Sparks' Pam McGee—raise a child and play in the WNBA?

Billy Clyde Puckett is back in the game, and the young Ali comes back to life

The down-and-dirty Padres had the vaunted Braves facing elimination in the National League Championship Series

David Wells likes his music loud, his drinks cold, his chin hairy—and, as he showed against the Indians, the ball in his hand when the season's on the line

As umpires blunder and bluster their way through the postseason, players are peeved, fans are howling, and baseball is searching for a way to put the best umps on the field

When he retired in 1992 after 31 years in the National League, Doug Harvey was one of the few umpires in the majors who had never attended an umpiring school. His techniques, however, were part of...

The reeling Panthers thought they had put the worst behind them—until Kerry Collins blindsided them by benching himself

After missing the final 28 games last season because of a concussion, Paul Kariya is back, which is good news for Anaheim and even better news for the NHL

Three years after its stunning Rose Bowl season, Northwestern appears headed back to the Big Ten basement. Is a little adversity just what these spoiled young Wildcats need?

SOCCER

ArenaballD.C. United's Bruce Arena is almost certain to become the next national team coach

Texas S&MThe Aggies beat up Nebraska with a simple mix of smarts and muscle

Ja'Mar ToombsTexas A&M's freshman fullback said no to "big games" promised by recruiters from Florida State and Ohio State. He ran for 110 yards against Nebraska. That's big enough.

•Virginia (5-0) at Georgia Tech (4-1)

Last Saturday, during Texas's 37-3 victory over Oklahoma, Major Applewhite connected with Wane McGarity for the longest touchdown pass in Longhorns history. Texas offensive coordinator and...

After a 15-year absence, Silvester Turner, 34, hasn't lost a step

Best of the RestIf not for the Broncos, the Patriots might be the team to beat in the AFC

SI has learned that at least two teams have taken the unusual step of asking the NFL office not to schedule the officiating crew headed by referee Dick Hantak (above) for their games. Why the...

1. O'Donnell's RevengeIn the last three years, the Steelers have chosen Kordell Stewart and the Jets have chosen Glenn Foley and Vinny Testaverde to play quarterback over Neil O'Donnell. On...

Like it or not, the Giants' Michael Strahan is getting the star treatment

Is it my imagination, or will 1998 go down as the Year of the Quarterback Controversy? Maybe controversy is too strong a word. How about dilemma? Or puzzlement? I can't seem to remember a season...

For a year the author cruised the highways and byways of America in search of the soul of sports, and he found it in shrines hallowed and profane, packed stadiums, retro bars and gloriously greasy...