October 26, 1981 | Volume 55, Issue 17

What I like most about Frank Deford's new novel—and I like many things about it—is the stunning fidelity with which it brings back to life a place and time that I knew intimately: North Carolina,...

THE GREAT GRETZKY & CO.Sir:The article by E.M. Swift on The Great Wayne Gretzky (The Best and Getting Better, Oct. 12) was itself great! One can only hope the NHL capitalizes on this...

The Casio J-100 is heralded as the Coach, the Jogging Computer, the Pace Runner or the semi-ultimate watch "for this week," according to an upbeat executive at Casio Inc., the American subsidiary...

•Chuck Shelton, Drake football coach, whose team is a surprising 6-0, discussing the fun he had being carried off the field after one of those victories: "When I die, I want to be embalmed in a...

New York won its fourth American League pennant in the last six seasons by dusting off the Oakland A's

Nice series, eh? The first major league championship held in two foreign countries, Canada and Los Angeles, had everything: religion, love, revenge, espionage, nutrition, meteorology, three...

Alan Jones won the first Caesars Palace Grand Prix and Nelson Piquet took the World Drivers Championship on a parking lot just off The Strip

Bob Ottum is dapper. Few people in this world fit the term as well. Ottum is neat and trim, spruce and stylish, alert and lively—all Webster definitions of the word. Ottum not only looks dapper...

The SMU tailback—a creature who poses a riddle that opponents haven't yet solved this year

OFFENSE: Gary Schofield, a sophomore quarterback for Wake Forest tied an NCAA mark with 43 completions against Maryland. He passed for 504 yards and two TDs, but the Deacons lost 45-33.

Kathy Postlewait, a non-winner on the tour, hit long green on the green

It's known as scoring, and it helped Oakland to its first win in a month

From the beginning of time, an amazing number of poets, prophets, preachers, politicians, playwrights, philosophers, etc., have found something noble, something glorious, even something heroic to...

After almost nine months of round-the-clock sports programming, Enterprise Radio, the brainchild of the father-and-son team that started the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN),...

Winning the New York City Marathon is easy. Bill Rodgers has done it four times and Grete Waitz three. No one, however, has been durable or quite savvy enough to finish last even twice. I know,...

When we were kids, we all had balloon-tire bicycles. Then one kid got a Raleigh. It had skinny tires and a narrow seat and three speeds; it looked ever so exciting, and it was foreign to boot,...

4—John Iacono22, 23—Paul Kennedy24—Andy Hayt (top), Manny Millan26—Andy Hayt (top), Richard Mackson27—John Iacono (top), Ronald C. Modra30, 31—Paul Kennedy (bottom left), Heinz Kluetmeier...

BASEBALL—The New York Yankees swept the Oakland A's in their best-of-five Championship Series to win the American League pennant, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Montreal Expos 2-1 in the...

CLARENCE CHAFFEEWlLLIAMSTOWN, MASS.Chaffee, 80, a retired tennis, squash and soccer coach, completed a "grand slam" by winning four USTA championships in the 80-and-over age group. Within five...