October 05, 1987 | Volume 67, Issue 15

When you think of the great mountains of Nepal and Tibet, you think of a ferocious wilderness—barren, windswept, yet starkly beautiful and pristine in its isolation. The facts are more mundane....

STRIKING TRIVIAThe Tonawanda (N.Y.) Cardinals of the Niagara Youth Football League (ages 11 and 12) staged a mock work stoppage last week. Their demands: a dollar per game, more water during...

•Carlton Fisk, White Sox catcher, on his call for a slider, which pitcher Floyd Bannister shook off in favor of a fastball, which Seattle's Harold Reynolds hit for a single, which cost Bannister a...

Tabbed for the cellar last spring, another won't-quit Canadian club is still alive

At 3 a.m., while most of us are asleep, CBS news correspondent Judy Muller is leaving her home in Metuchen, N.J. By 4:10 she's in her Manhattan office preparing her four-minute radio commentary....

The strike had members of the Cowboys, like other NFL players, checking their wallets and their consciences

NBC, which used to be more interested in yuks and studio audiences than in hardnosed journalism on its NFL pregame show, beat CBS up and down the line of scrimmage in coverage of the strike. On...

CALIFORNIA DREAMIN'I haven't finished reading my Sept. 7 issue, because Leigh Montville's article on Southern California (Everything under the Sun) made me stop to write immediately. Montville had...

Mike Pigg won the USTS title on Hilton Head Island

OFFENSE: Holy Cross quarterback Jeff Wiley completed 27 of 39 passes for 414 yards and seven TDs—both school records—in a 63-6 rout of Lehigh. Wiley, a junior, amassed 313 of those yards in the...

Dave Stewart, once washed-up, is now awash in success

WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKESIn our last look inside the 1987 season, we note that as the final week began, three of the '86 division champions, the Red Sox, Angels and Astros, had losing...

EDDIE MURRAY, 1B, ORIOLESThe glory days are over. Woeful Baltimore could use...well, everything.

A RITUAL FISTFIGHT HIGH IN THE BOLIVIAN ANDES REVEALS A PROFOUND BUT SIMPLE TRUTH ABOUT MEN AND BOXING

Roberto Clemente's sports center is taking shape

BOATING—JIM KROPFELD, 46, of Cincinnati earned 825 points in the Las Vegas Silver Cup event on Lake Mead to win his second consecutive national unlimited hydroplane racing championship.

LAURA CHAPOTNESHANIC STATION, N.J.Laura, 15, rode off with the American Horse Shows Association Hunter Pony championships, in Culpepper, Va. Laura and her gray mare pony, Bon Soir, won the model,...

How I rate Reggie Jackson. And how he rates himself