Mark Spitz

When you're hot, you're hot, Bruce Furniss had a score to settle with himself and in the process broke two of the four individual world records that fell at the AAU meet last week in Kansas City

With golds in diving, gymnastics and shooting, the People's Republic's participation in the Asian Games after 20 years of athletic exile was a banner occasion for winning friends and medals

Swimming's Hall of Fame was floundering until Buck Dawson, who can barely stay afloat himself, turned on the ballyhoo with gimmicks like his seal and a Spitz named Mark

The moral: masochists are all wet

A certain touch of sporting suspense may be fine in its place, but with the swim team one might as well relax and enjoy the predestined slaughter. Everybody knew what would happen last Saturday when the University of...