September 22, 1997 | Volume 87, Issue 12

FEBRUARY 12, 1979

Saturday 9/20

Kudos to ABC's Dan Fouts for condemning as "incredibly stupid" the penalty for excessive celebration following Notre Dame's final touchdown, which made the score 21-16, late in the Irish's 28-17...

62Hours after winning the U.S. Open that Martina Hingis won a match for her Czech club team, TK Sezooz Prostejov.

Last month, the Public Works Department of Richland County, S.C., assigned Portland Trail Blazers forward

Burgess Meredith, who died last week at 88, may be best recalled for playing the Penguin on TV's Batman, or for his exquisite stage work. But to us, he'll always be Mickey, the quintessential...

To help launch a new line of watches, Tag Heuer got celebrated photographer Herb Ritts to shoot 13 world-class athletes in the nude for an exhibition that will travel to 40 cities.

(WWW.CNNSI.COM)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...

Between halves of a football game, Carl Lewis's storied career came to a close

Sugar Ray Leonard, 41, and Roberto Duran, 46, are fielding offers to fight for a fourth time.

Woody WidenhoferVanderbilt football coach, on what he wanted his team to show against Alabama: "The kind of confidence that the 82-year-old man had when he married a 25-year-old woman and bought a...

Allegedly mellowed coach Mike Ditka went ballistic on his inept Saints as they were being crushed by the 49ers

With its newfound prestige endangered North Carolina turned to No. 2 quarterback Oscar Davenport, who was first-rate

Sarah SalinasFREEPORT, TEXASSarah, 16, won three swimming gold medals in the girls' 15-17 division and set two state age-group records at the Games of Texas. Her marks came in the 50-yard...

By dominating a game but over-the-hill Hector Camacho, Oscar De La Hoya retained his welterweight crown and enhanced his star quality

Over the last four seasons Tennessee, Colorado, North Carolina, Ohio State and Syracuse have combined for zero outright conference titles and zero national championships. The reason: They've gone...

Baseball and Catholicism were the abiding passions of a young girl

The author slogged through Panama's jungle to the Pacific

Two writers wander through baseball, one looking for America, the other for himself

The first world championships of beach volleyball were a hit, but the struggle for the sport's future continues

The Seahawks went back to basics and overwhelmed the Colts, The Vikings' wise investment, Green Bay stock

The Buccaneers, who haven't finished with a winning record since the strike-shortened 1982 season, are 3-0 and, after their 28-14 win over the Vikings on Sunday, the only undefeated team in the...

THE BUZZ AROUND THE LEAGUE THIS WEEK

Sitting in a Georgia Dome training room after Sunday's 36-31 loss to the Raiders, the Falcons' Juran Bolden looked every bit the part of a special-teamer. The 6'2", 200-pound Bolden, who earned...

I'm curious to see what kind of a defense Jacksonville puts up against Pittsburgh on Monday night. Will the Jaguars load up to stop Jerome Bettis and take their chances against Kordell Stewart's...

•AUBURN (2-0) AT LSU (2-0)This rivalry has been overshadowed the past few years by Florida-Tennessee, but it has been the more exciting of the two matchups. Louisiana State has won back-to-back...

CENTRAL FLORIDA'S BIG-TIME PASSER

I hope some NBA team will pick up Booger Smith so that he can spread his love of the game to a few of his future greedy teammates.MATT MORRIS, ATHERTON, CALIF.

A round of reasons why the Ryder Cup is the best thing going in sports

Spaniards tend to work alone. The ancient land's great figures have been individualists, be they artists, conquistadors, architects, matadors, explorers or writers. It's no accident that the...

If you can correctly answer these 25 questions, you're an expert on the Ryder Cup

1. "The only thing that scares me about the Americans now is the clothes they wear."

Loren Roberts salvaged his season, but time is running out on others as the Tour turns for home

Scott Hoch has nothing to lose and everything to gain at Valderrama

Conventional wisdom holds that it's a mistake to pair two rookies in the Ryder Cup, but when the rookies are 41-year-old Scott Hoch, the oldest first-year player in the history of the event, and...

What do these players have in common?

6The most consecutive Senior tour starts in '97 by Hale Irwin (winner of last week's Boone Valley Classic) without a victory.

•RECORDS: The American with the most Ryder Cup points? Billy Casper (23½).

I'd love to play in another Ryder Cup so that, for once, I night enjoy the experience. I'll never forget my last one, the 1991 War by the Shore at Kiawah Island, S.C. It was a great event but not...

THE LESSON NOT LEARNED: THE U.S. TEAM IS NEVER AS GOOD AS IT LOOKS