December 16, 1985 | Volume 63, Issue 27

One of the qualities a publication like SPORTS ILLUSTRATED must strive for if it hopes to achieve a long and successful life is diversity—in style, approach and point of view. This is the best...

SALLY KUSAMHERST, N.Y.Kus, 37, coached Sweet Home Central High's girls' volleyball team to its 219th straight win, setting a U.S. scholastic record for consecutive victories. The previous record...

PRO BASKETBALL—The Pacific Division-leading Lakers won three games, giving them an 18-2 record and the best start in their history. Second-place Portland dropped three of four games. The lone...

REILLY'S HEISMAN PICKSir:Rick Reilly deserves a Wise Man award for his humorous, but timely and truthful article What The Heck, Why Not Dudek? (Dec. 2) about the Heisman award, which sometimes is...

Because Hollywood financing can be complicated, one of the oldest gags in the industry is, "We shoulda shot the deal, not the movie." It happens to be very nice indeed that Bud Greenspan was the...

TROUBLE AT A&M

•Steve Bono, third-string quarterback for the Vikings, on the prospect of someday replacing starter Tommy Kramer and backup Wade Wilson: "If I'm fortunate, in five or six years I'll be the one...

Donald Curry scored a stunning Round 2 KO of Milton McCrory to unify the welterweight title

Eddie Sutton is doing fine so far, but Kentucky's basketball coach is finding his job full of pressure

Leaving the bickering to others, Laurie Rinker and brother Larry coolly won the Mixed Team loot

San Diego's 5'6" Lionel James is piling up those all-purpose yards.

The Jets' Mark Gastineau (East Central of Oklahoma) and the Cardinals' Roy Green (Henderson State of Arkansas) are two of the National Football League's best examples of small-college players...

OFFENSE: Atlanta's Gerald Riggs, the NFL's rushing leader with 1,548 yards, had his biggest day of the season—26 carries for 197 yards and one touchdown—in a 38-10 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.

For most people, the discovery of such a photograph would elicit feelings of comfort and warmth. But for a 7-year-old orphan, bone-weary after his flight from South Korea to the U.S., the picture...

When four St. Joseph's clashed, namesake got mad at namesake

WEST

DENNIS HOPSON: Ohio State's 6'5" junior guard scored 103 points on 74% shooting from the field, with 42 against Cleveland State, in the 5-0 Buckeyes' wins over three previously unbeaten teams.

Although Ivan Lendl flopped in the Australian Open, he's No. 1 for '85

HBO's visual expertise makes up for less than perfect commentary

On the first day of the Baltimore Colts' training camp, Westminster, Md., July of 1968, Ordell Braase, the huge old war-horse, a survivor of 12 years in the National Football League, was walking...