PREVENT DEFENSE MAY BE NFL’S BEST OFF-SEASON STRATEGY
Bailiff, please escort the defendant to the bar. For the record, please identify yourself for the court. The National Football League, your honor. Any aliases? NFL. Da pros. Deion Sanders'...
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IN SCARING VISITORS, ATLANTA WINS GOLD
The friendly immigration agent handed back my passport and a small foldout brochure, a thoughtful list of hints from the Department of Justice on how to have a safe Olympic...
IT’S AN OWNER’S WORLD–JORDAN JUST PLAYS THERE
As long as Michael Jordan is happy, the rest of us should be able to get back to ignoring baseball or whatever there is between now and the first Olympic...
STREAK TO FINALS ENDS IN SMILES FOR WASHINGTON
By the final day of the least predictable of Wimbledons, the odds on MaliVai Washington winning the tournament and a streaker dashing across Centre Court were the same, and although...
FOR WASHINGTON, A MOMENT TO DREAM ABOUT
He is going to have to work on his joy, MaliVai Washington is. Even before his concluding volley smacked off the venerable and unimpressed sod of Centre Court, Washington was...
EVEN NERVES ARE GETTING DAMPENED AT WIMBLEDON
The public announcement that "a very large cloud is approaching the club" was metaphorically tardy, since this place has been under a very large cloud ever since Andre Agassi was...
WASHINGTON’S CREED COULD TAKE TENNIS BEYOND COLOR
MaliVai Washington does not, technically, violate the predominantly white rule at the All-England Club, though color is inevitably the first topic that comes up. "I'd like to be in an...
TODD MARTIN FINDS BRITS DON’T SPEAK MIDWEST
It falls to Todd Martin, the tennis player, to educate his hosts about American college football. Not as hard as educating them about his old school, Northwestern. "Me in the...
IT’S HALF-FORTHRIGHT TO BE EXCITED ABOUT THIS HALF-FORTNIGHT
Having Pete Sampras define what's weird is the same as having a librarian determine what's loud. A whisper in one place is a scream in another. Or, to put it...
AS EDBERG, SHRIVER EXIT WIMBLEDON, SO DOES CLASS
He left as quietly as he stayed, did Stefan Edberg. No tears, a shrug and a wave and he was gone, head down modestly, from the tournament he has won...