May 14, 1990 | Volume 72, Issue 20

Jim Reid doesn't wear his bulletproof vest to bed anymore. But he still keeps a bowie knife hidden in his boot, a Colt .45 stashed in his Corvette and a 9-mm Beretta concealed somewhere on his...

Just beyond the rightfield fence of the University of New Haven's baseball field is a simple granite monument with a bronze plaque attached. From a distance it looks like a headstone. But this...

It was at his grandmother's funeral three years ago that John Bryan got his start as a sports artist. After the service, Edwina Millington, an acquaintance of Bryan's mother's, told him about the...

The lithe, well-muscled young men leap and run across the grass, tossing the ball in the brilliant Cape Cod sunshine. The spectators cheer. The team in white, down 30 points only a few minutes...

Doing his finest imitation of Captain Kirk of the starship Enterprise, a tense Jim Biller radios from the bridge to the engine room of the 63-year-old stern-wheeler, M.S. Dixie: "Scotty, I need...

When Arantxa Sanchez Vicario smashed the golden idol that was Steffi Graf in the finals of the French Open last June, mouths of worshipers hung open in disbelief. The seemingly invincible Graf...

PRO BASKETBALL—In the first round of the NBA playoffs the Mailman didn't deliver on Sunday. In the deciding game of the Jazz-Suns best-of-five series, Utah's Karl Malone missed several key shots...

WADE SHORTINVER GROVE HEIGHTS, MINN.Wade, 16, a junior at Simley High, decisioned Scott Peterson of Alexandria High in overtime to win the Class AA 140-pound state wrestling championship. He is...

An open letter to Arnold Schwarzenegger

STUDI UP

•Luis Polonia, California Angel outfielder recently acquired from the New York Yankees, criticizing his former team for using him mostly as a pinch hitter and designated hitter: "The Yankees are...

Frances A. Genter thought she might stay home in Minneapolis and watch the Kentucky Derby on TV. At 92, she's as fragile as a rose, and the sheer crush of it all—the crowd, the jostling, the...

Mo Cheeks drove New York to a stunning win over Boston

Last Friday, in a rain-soaked ceremony at Ohio's Kent State University, a granite memorial was dedicated to commemorate the deaths of four students gunned down by National Guardsmen during campus...

Michael B. Green, 22, a former member of the Crips, one of the nation's most notorious youth gangs, was convicted of drug trafficking in 1987 and is serving a 63-month sentence in the federal...

Blackhawk coach Mike Keenan isn't popular, but his team keeps winning

35 YEARS OF COVERSSteve Wulf's article, The Cover Story, in your special issue 35 YEARS OF COVERS (March 28), notes that Reggie holds the record—four—for most different baseball uniforms worn by a...

USC upset Long Beach State for the NCAA title

Michelle's influence on Mark elicits sour notes from his tour rivals

ONE MAN COMBOTodd Cason, a righthander for Saint Leo (Fla.) College, recently started four times in six days. How did he do it? Well, whenever he got tired, he just put his glove on the other hand...

A few months after arriving in Japan to play for the Hanshin Tigers last season, Cecil Fielder called Fred McGriff, a former teammate on the Blue Jays, and made a bet as to which of them would hit...