May 11, 1998 | Volume 88, Issue 19

Juan Marichal's car wreck stirred memories of a bygone era

Marital bliss is helping Chuck Finley blow through opposing lineups

Over and Out?

Canadiens defenseman Vladimir Malakhov (below) has been an enigma since coming to the NHL in 1992-93, but in Montreal's first-round series against the Penguins, which the Canadiens won 4-2 on...

MAY 11, 1972, BRUINS VS. RANGERSBobby Orr put on a dazzling exhibition as Boston won its second Stanley Cup in three years by shutting out New York 3-0 in Game 6. Orr scored the first goal, set up...

You know why kids don't play baseball anymore? Because they took down the fences.

Las year Pete Gillen's top player, sophomore God Shammgod, hightailed it to the NBA. It works both ways.—PATRICIA M. MacKENZIE, New York City

Letters to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED should include the name, address and home telephone number of the writer. They may be mailed to The Editor, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, Time & Life Building, New York,...

March 24, 1975

Seinfeld was conceived as a show about nothing, though it turned out to be nothing of the sort. Rather, Seinfeld was a show about sports: Face-painted New Jersey Devils fans, recalcitrant...

•That the Reverend Reggie White, who took to the stump again last week to denounce homosexuals, remembers that "the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil" (James 3:8).

5,480Miles from Chavez Ravine to the Dodgers' new Tokyo office, opened, according to team officials, to "enhance the organization's relationships in Asia."

MARTINA HINGIS Or VENUS WILLIAMS

Italy's parliament was suspended for the day last week when two legislators—in an incident Deputy Prime Minister Walter Veltroni termed "embarrassing and grotesque"—called each other clowns and...

TOM OSBORNEFormer Cornhuskers football coach, upon being given a lifetime Nebraska fishing license: "I hope I live enough years to use it."

You say you don't have a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering? That you haven't completed a neurosurgery residency? No problem. According to a number of athletes, coaches and front-office types, there...

Saturday 5/9

Networks that telecast the NHL can sing the blues, and we don't mean St. Louis. With three rounds to go, the Stanley Cup playoffs are minus any team from New York, Los Angeles or Chicago, and...

32 LAST CALL?The greatest sports dynasty of the 1990s may (or may not) be about to hang it up, but behind the scenes the Bulls' season certainly has had the feel of a farewell tourby Rick Reilly

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Kelly Kulick, Union, N.J.BowlingKulick, a junior at Morehead State, led the Lady Eagles to the women's national collegiate crown, throwing two strikes in the 10th frame to clinch the title match...

Houston, We Have LiftoffWhile Hakeem Olajuwon holds off two Jazz men with his forearm, Houston's Kevin Willis outbattles Greg Ostertag for a rebound during Game 4 of their playoff series, which...

Jockey Kent Desormeaux capped a comeback, and long shot Real Quiet made a lot of noise with a victory in the Kentucky Derby

Goaltender Damian Rhodes, a.k.a. the Peroxide Kid, has put color into the once gray Senators, who left the Devils feeling blue

THE NFL

Getting a Grip

Antonio's Line

Rebel with a CauseIn the waning moments of the Bulls' first-round sweep of the Nets, Dennis Rodman appeared to be jawing at the New Jersey bench. In fact, he was asking Nets assistant coach Don...

The trail blazers became the first team to lose in the first round in six consecutive seasons. They bowed to the Lakers in four games, and Shaquille O'Neal has a good idea why: "I own [Arvydas]...

Texas Tornadoes

Mets announcer Keith Hernandez is one of the few people in the world with knowledge of how the last episode of Seinfeld will end—at least he thinks he knows what will happen.

The good times keep rolling for Matt Kuchar, the amateur who dazzled everyone at the Masters

The majority was out in force at the National Minority championship

Going for ThreeOne Green stood between Hale Irwin and history in deepest football country

The sun was warm, but the spray blowing off the Pacific sent a chillier message: Don't hook it, Tom. I took a deep breath and listened to the magnificent 18th hole at Pebble Beach.

The leader in the clubhouse says, "I've got to go hit some balls." Two hours and 200 Titleists later he's still on the range, still ironing out flaws that kept his 66 from being an 18-under-par 54.

One Round, 17 Aces:Kevin Lacey of Cincinnati won the Professional Putters Association's first major of the year, the Southern Open, at the Putt-Putt in Augusta (below). Lacey opened the...

What do these players have in common?

While the Ryder Cup rides a tsunami of hype and popularity, another biennial event putt-putts along behind. The Presidents Cup, which will be played on Dec. 11-13 at the Royal Melbourne Golf...

505,600Dollars won by Davis Love III in his last two starts, the MCI Classic ($342,000) and last week's Chunichi Crowns ($163,600) in Aichi, Japan.

PGA

Merge the LPGA with the PGA Tour? What a nightmare

Danielle Ammaccapane KO'd her slump at the Titleholders