Houston Rockets

The toughest thing about this division is not picking the eventual champion, but trying to remember under what alias it will be operating. Two years ago it was Baltimore. Last season it was Capital. This year it will...

•Larry Brown, Washington Redskin back, on whether he thinks while he runs: "If you think too much, you'll go nowhere. I just try to decrease the situations that are detrimental to my health."

•Tex Winter, Houston Rocket coach, on UCLA's Bill Walton: "One of the reasons I left as University of Washington coach was that I knew what a great player he was going to be. I figured I'd have a better chance of...

•Chris Evert, 17-year-old tennis champion, after a year of being called things like "teen angel," when asked if she was getting tired of all the emphasis on her youth: "Well, it would be nice if some writer would get...

WINTER GAMESSirs:Thanks to what William Johnson termed "one of the tackiest and most depressing-looking sports facilities anywhere" (Ice-Cold Games and a Solid-Cold Girl, Jan. 31), SI had an exciting and beautiful...