May 16, 1988 | Volume 68, Issue 20

Aerobic athletes jumped and stretched to find the best

GAIL CUMMINGSHUNTSVILLE, ONT.Cummings, a senior lacrosse player for No. 1-ranked Temple, holds school marks for career points (370), goals in a season (88) and career goals (283). She led the...

PRO BASKETBALL—Favorites prevailed in all but one of the first-round series in the NBA playoffs. The week's only upset, and a mild one at that, took place in the West, where Utah knocked off...

A row, a lawsuit, a strike—and no NHL president in sight

Compared with the number of adventurers who find themselves compelled to stand on a mountain's summit, those drawn to the floor of a canyon are few. Even the Grand Canyon is most often viewed from...

THE FAMILY PLAN

•John Trautwein, Boston Red Sox pitcher, after relieving Roger Clemens, who had had a rare poor start: "It was like Frank Sinatra opening for Bob Uecker."

With eight wins in as many starts, Dave Stewart has Oakland on top in the West

It's a good thing a picture is worth a thousand words, because Rob Day, the 26-year-old artist whose illustrations accompany Bil Gilbert's article on competition (page 86), is a taciturn sort. The...

Even though I had been a pitcher during my professional baseball career, when I was invited to play in an Equitable Old-Timers' game at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium last summer, the fantasies I...

Fuzzy Zoeller (, April 18) is wrong! The Masters is a great tournament, and the fast greens are super. The pros are the best players in the world, and they need adversity so they can really show...

Records can wait as Butch Reynolds saves it for Seoul

DIVIDED LOYALTYYankee third baseman Mike Pagliarulo, who grew up in Medford, Mass., wears a T-shirt under his uniform that reads RED sox, WORLD SERIES CHAMPS—1903, 1912, 1915, 1916, 1918 on the...

Gaye Bykers on acid top the bill this night at Detroit's St. Andrew's Hall, but Jim Walewander insists he's there to check out the crowd, not the band. The Tiger infielder says his own tastes in...