December 22, 1997 | Volume 87, Issue 25

Haakonsen's specialty is the half-pipe, one of two snowboard events to be contested in Nagano. (The other is the slalom, patterned after the gated ski race.) A variety of moves are performed in...

Willie StewartREDLANDS, CALIF.Stewart, 35, who lost his left arm below the elbow as a result of a roofing accident in 1980, placed first in the disabled division and fourth overall in the San...

Jerry Jones is relishing his opportunity to rebuild the Cowboys, Decision time for Kelly, A Pro Bowl snub

After this Saturday's game against the Bills, Packers running back Dorsey Levens will have carried the ball almost as often during the 1997 regular season as he did in his previous seven years of...

1. GIANTS AMONG MEN"Times don't change," former Giants and Redskins linebacker Sam Huff said after New York won the NFC East for the first time in seven years. "The Giants won the division with...

In San Diego on Sunday, the AFC West-leading Chiefs predictably pounded the Chargers 29-7. This is the first time since 1991, Pro Bowl linebacker Junior Seau's second season, that the Chargers...

They're a pretty sorry bunch of playoff contenders. They came into last weekend needing a win to stay alive or clinch a berth or even win a division outright. Some got blown away, a few played...

Woodson runs off with the Heisman, Nebraska's smooth transition, Northern Colorado has a blast

•I-AA CHAMPIONSHIP: McNEESE STATE (13-1) VS. YOUNGSTOWN STATE (12-2)Sophomore quarterback Blake Prejean came of age last weekend when he drove McNeese State to a game-winning field goal, but the...

This incident isn't about race but about athletes who are allowed to play by different rules

To declare any all-white team that competed before full integration as "the best in history" is dead wrong.MATT CHANEY, WARRENSBURG, MO.

Saturday 12/20COLLEGE BASKETBALLNorth Carolina at Florida StateHats off to Steve Robinson, new coach of the Seminoles (8-1 at week's end). "The first time we met him, I had my hat on backwards [in...

During last Saturday's North Carolina-Princeton basketball game, ESPN's Dick Vitale took the students at Old Nassau to task for not regularly filling Princeton's Jadwin Gym (capacity: 7,550) in...

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11,500Distance, in miles, traveled by Kentucky's basketball team between Nov. 24 and Dec. 10 for games in Maui, Phoenix, Chicago, Indianapolis and Buffalo.

Some big-name figures from other sports have been seen lately with top players from the women's tennis tour. Can you figure out who's teaming up with whom for some mixed doubles?

Having been hung by the chimney with care, Vince Lombardi—or at least an official cardboard-cutout Lombardi mask—can gaze with pride (or horror) upon a wonderland of other Green Bay Packers...

For $27.95 plus shipping and handling, FishDoctor, a Wisconsin company, will digitally alter a snapshot, turning, according to an ad, "a 3 lb. smallmouth into a 6 lb. Hog!"

Mike ShanahanCoach of the Denver Broncos, when asked how severely he would punish a player who choked him: "It all depends on how good he is."

Though we didn't hear from him in the previous pages, Dean Smith does have something to say. He recently sat down with SI senior writer to share his reflections on nearly half a century in...

JANUARY 7, 1963

Finding refuge on the court, the suddenly resurgent Warriors learned that life after Latrell Sprewell has its benefits

A skateboarder and a keeper with yellow toenails led UCLA to the NCAA title

Paul Kariya's storybook return buoyed the Ducks and may boost the fortunes of other NHL stars

Rookie coach Jim Fassel, who can be both tough got the Giants to believe in him and then led them from worst to first in the NFC East

Playoff-bound Pittsburgh is well aware that its All-Pro strong safety, Carnell Lake, plays a mean corner, too