October 26, 1998 | Volume 89, Issue 17

A. J. Smith did his homework, then he sold the Bills on Doug Flutie

The silliest question you can ask someone on a 6-0 team is, Can you go undefeated? But it's asked over and over.

I'm not from New York. I don't live in New York. It wouldn't bother me if much of New York was attacked by a sex-crazed giant sloth.

Tiffany Gunn, Little RockTrack and FieldTiffany, 15, won the 400-meter hurdles in her age group at the Junior Olympics with a time of 60.38 seconds. As a freshman at Watson Chapel High, she was...

Terrell Davis's mother should be the holder of his Super Bowl MVP trophy.—Jeff Martinez, Pueblo, Colo.

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DON'T MISS

14.3Average of the overnight ratings for World Series Games I and 2 on Fox—down 7% from NBC's 15.3 average for the first two games in 1997.

Last Saturday, ABC, which has the best broadcasting duo in college football—Keith Jackson and Bob Griese—also had a dream matchup: unbeaten Oregon versus unbeaten UCLA in Pasadena. Alas, Jackson...

The NBA lockout has given players the leisure and license to launch artistic air balls

To regain his license in Nevada, Iron Mike had to give up his mind

•That all those celebs at the World Series don't forsake baseball next spring (if the lockout's over) for NBA courtside seats.

28,700,000Deferred salary, in dollars, the Pittsburgh Penguins (who have filed for bankruptcy) owe retired center Mario Lemieux.

BRONCOSDenver is better, as its 15.7 point average victory margin shows, because coach Mike Shanahan told the Super Bowl champs they would have to work harder this year to repeat. So 36 players—up...

Nets $50,000 in damages from filmmakers who had sued him for breach of contract; tells Maxim magazine he'll never watch the Bulls play until his sons are on the team—and "they're not gonna play...

A Michigan Beanie Baby distributor wants to buy the McGwire 70th home run ball so he can extract one million fibers from it, insert them into one million McGwire dolls, put the ball back together...

BRAD SCOTTSouth Carolina football coach, after his wife, Daryle, broke her left ankle and sprained her right ankle while leaving a game: "She's probably out for the season."

Ricky Ledee (above) is on the New York Yankees' roster only because Darryl Strawberry is not. Ledee doesn't forget that. He's 24 years old, and he's had 79 at bats in the majors. He started the...

The 12 players who would least likely make their way onto the pages of Emily Post's Etiquette.

Smoking a Virginia slims and stroking his black pussycat while seated in the living room of his home near Kansas City, Mo., Conrad Dobler looks like a middle-aged graduate of sensitivity training,...

Offensive lineman Ralph Tamm has been around the block a few times—and many of the blocks he threw in the process were illegal. Now a long snapper with the Chiefs, Tamm built a repertoire of...

World Series40 Tourist TrapAwestruck and awful during their first visit to the Bronx, the Padres had to contend with the Yanks and historyby Tom Verducci

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and CNN team up on the Internet to offer up-to-the-minute sports news and stats. Stay on top of the NFL with Peter King's Monday Morning Quarterback and Dr. Z's exclusive team...

Born in Sydney and still an Australian citizen, San Diego Chargers punter Darren Bennett is permitted to play in the U.S. on a P-l visa, which designates him as an athlete "with an internationally...

Which One Is Teething?At a public workout in Phoenix, Mike Tyson practices his best move, the Holyfield Ear Clamp. Obviously out of shape, he missed the lobe of Florin Bouros, 2. by half a body...

Hulking Capitals goaltender Olaf Kolzig, a.k.a. Godzilla, has not only shed his backup status but has also emerged as one of the NHL's premier players by finally taming his ferocious temper

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

The ContrariansEverything's wrong about Georgia Tech—except its 5-1 record

1. The Owls, losers of eight straight, were 35½-point underdogs.

•Texas Tech (6-1) at Texas A&M (6-1)One of the game's most underappreciated rivalries is renewed in College Station—which is a good thing for the Aggies, who have lost six of the last 10 times...

Former Wisconsin soda vendor Donnel Thompson has earned his due

Waiting GameNow a backup, Maple Leafs goalie Felix Potvin pines for a trade

PIERRE LACROIXAvalanche general managerSince winning the Cup in '96, talented Colorado has twice been K.O'd from the playoffs earlier than expected. In June, Lacroix replaced coach Marc Crawford...

In the Red Wings' 3-2 victory over the Capitals last week, center Sergei Fedorov (below) lost a key third-period defensive draw that directly led to a Washington goal. For that Fedorov was benched...

Start the BiddingKevin Brown could be the key to a robust free-agent signing period

Time's Running OutThe clock is ticking on Barry Sanders as he chases an elusive title

1. Colts 31, 49ers 20We've corrected the score because referee Walt Coleman's crew robbed Indianapolis blind at 3Com Park on Sunday and handed San Francisco a 34-31 gift. Peyton Manning really...

Numbers GameComputer jock Annika Sorenstam uses stats to get an edge

Should the USGA adopt new rules to regulate high-tech equipment?

3Holes won by Vijay Singh in his 11-and-10 loss to Mark O'Meara in the 36-hole semifinals of last week's World Match Play Championship.

Site Lines: The PGA of America announced last week that the Ryder Cup, which the U.S. hosts every four years, will be held at Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., in 2003. It...

I'm the coach who'll needle you on the course. Yes, you are looking at a golf guru-acupuncturist.

What do these players have in common?

PGA

Mark O'Meara has the majors, but the numbers add up to David Duval

At the Las Vegas Invitational, the name of the game was making the number

As usual, the guy next door proved to be no match for Mark O'Meara