December 09, 1985 | Volume 63, Issue 26

PRO BASKETBALL—Boston stretched its winning streak to seven with four wins, including a 98-91 victory over Philadelphia and a 132-124 defeat of Detroit in which Larry Bird scored a season-high 47...

BILL HENDERSONMIAMIBill, a junior quarterback at Westminster Christian School, broke the state single-game passing yardage record and tied the mark for most completions as he connected on 27 of 37...

THE TOP 40Sir:This One's for You, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, for your wonderful 1985-86 College Basketball Issue (Nov. 20). This praise comes Straight From the Heart, because you're a Hard Habit to Break...

STEROID JUSTICE

•Tom McVie, coach of the AHL Maine Mariners, on the cramped hotel room he occupied during a team road trip: "It was so small that when I stuck the key in the lock I broke the window."

That's where No. 2 Michigan went after beating No. 1 Georgia Tech

The 49ers annihilated Washington to pull within a game of the Rams

Free agent Kirk Gibson had expected to be a multimillionaire by now, but the baseball owners have closed their vaults

Snow and rain couldn't keep Wisconsin, Pat Porter and Lynn Jennings from winning cross-country titles

Blair Luke is retiring. For those who know and work with Luke, SI's production director and assistant advertising sales director, his departure signals the end of an era.

On Dec. 11, 1935, The New York Times reported that New York City's Downtown Athletic Club had awarded a trophy to the University of Chicago's All-America halfback, Jay Berwanger, for being the...

In verse as well as on the court, Alex English gets his points across

Jackie Sherrill has put once-lowly Texas A & M into the Cotton Bowl

Maryland and Tennessee wrapped up conference titles, with inspiration from surprising sources. The Terrapins earned their third straight ACC championship by beating Virginia 33-21. It was...

OFFENSE: Freshman running back Gene Jelks rushed for 192 yards on 18 carries—one of which was a 74-yard touchdown gallop in the fourth quarter—to help Alabama beat Auburn 25-23 in Birmingham.

NBC's sassy NFL program is little more than a glorified tout service

Winnipeg unloaded Dave Babych, and nobody can figure out why

With crowd noise a bigger problem than ever in the NFL this season, Tex Schramm, the head of the league's competition committee, says there is a new movement to adopt the space-age transmitter...

So you think Richard Todd, the Saints' quarterback who will make $660,000 as a third-stringer this season, has the best life in the NFL. Well, Mike (Too Tan) Saxon, the Cowboys' punter, may not be...

Here's the World According to Cleveland's Bob Golic.

OFFENSE: Backup QB Wade Wilson, yanked in the third period, returned with 11:43 left in the game and threw three TD passes to rally Minnesota, down 23-0, to a 28-23 win over the Philadelphia Eagles.

On Sept. 23 Ben Rose, 26, stood beside a white pine tree in Warren, Vt., hammer in hand. As co-blazer of the Catamount Trail, a cross-country ski route that covers the length of Vermont, Rose was...

Duke outplayed Kansas to win the inaugural preseason NIT championship

DAVID HENDERSON: Duke's 6'5" senior forward scored 79 points in the first Big Apple NIT, with a career-high 30 on 12-for-14 shooting in the Blue Devils' 92-86 win over Kansas in the title game.

In somber counterpoint to a bright autumn afternoon, the granite buildings of the U.S. Military Academy loom above the Hudson River at West Point, silently delivering a message of enduring...

Snow fell last night at Rattlesnake Butte, and frost feathered the cottonwood trees. This morning the temperature hangs at freezing, and the trails are wet and muddy. It's roundup time, and Harry...