December 18, 1989 | Volume 71, Issue 26

Bring on the Brinks truck, boys—Babe Ruth is a free agent

CURRYING DISFAVOR

•Ed Temple, who has coached eight women's Olympic track gold medalists during his 38 years at Tennessee State: "I'm the only man alive whose wife approves of him going around with fast women."

Sugar Ray Leonard, 33, beat Roberto Duran, 38, in a fight dedicated to posterity

Even in defeat, the Broncos showed why they're the AFC's best hope for the Super Bowl

Led by a new star, Pierre Turgeon, a surprising but confident Buffalo has taken over the NHL's top spot

It was six hours before my flight would leave for Portugal, and I was finishing my packing, searching for a spot to stuff my basketball. Actually, my Wilson Pro 1000 hardly looked like a...

Most of the books born of the running boom have been upbeat—even smug—accounts of fulfillment through exercise. Emphatically, that is not the case with Dark Marathon: The Mary Wazeter Story...

When Dorothy Hester Stenzel was 17, in 1927, she was a shy blue-eyed blonde who had a way with a biplane. At 21 she was barnstorming the Midwest and Southwest, performing aerobatics at air-shows...

The competition was more than an hour away, but many of the contestants had already arrived and were warming up vigorously. Most of them sat in a section of bleachers at one end of a large arena...

BIG-TIME SOLUTIONS (CONT.)

Season after season, coach Bob Hurley finds it increasingly difficult to kid his kids. Hurley, who is a Hudson County (N.J.) probation officer eight hours a day and the leader of Jersey City's St....

AGENT GREEN

A SOBER BOUNTY BOWL

Oilers at Bengals. The Bengals hate the Oilers. They think coach Jerry Glanville's boys are a dirty, fight-starting bunch. Last year, in the Oilers' 41-6 rout of the Bengals at the Astrodome,...

A BATTLE OF TITANESSES

MEN: Tracy Shelton, a 6-foot sophomore guard for West Virginia, scored 36 points on 12-of-24 shooting—including 6 of 10 three-pointers—in a 97-93 double OT upset of Pittsburgh. Shelton also had 23...

Hoops for the 45-and-over set isn't the game you know

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Colorado digs honor WW II'S 10th Mountain Division

PRO BASKETBALL—The Spurs and the Jazz took over coleadership of the Midwest Division from the Nuggets: Utah used a strong defense to defeat the Cavs 94-80, the Mavs 107-97 and the Rockets 104-90...

CHAD SATTLERLAMOINE, MAINEChad, a senior striker for Ellsworth High, scored all the goals as the 16-0-1 Eagles shut out Orono High 4-0 to win their sixth consecutive Class B Eastern Maine soccer...