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August 25, 1986 Table Of Contents

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WANT TO MAKE A HIT AT THE BEACH? POUND A YELLOW REDSAND VOLLEYBALL

By Bruce Anderson

Mets Starters

Take That, You Hitters

And that and that and that. The Mets are home free in the NL East, thanks to a quartet of stellar starters

By Ron Fimrite

The Day Of The Disciple

Phil Gleaves sent Wise Times out to beat his mentor in the Travers

By William Nack

Saints

Is It A Sin For Saints To Win?

No, but the New Orleans football team acted as if it were. Coach Jim Mora wants to change that

By E.M. Swift

Glenn Davis

Sorry Past, Bright Future

Despite the lingering effects of an agonizing adolescence, Glenn Davis has become the slugging anchor of the division-leading Houston Astros

By Bruce Newman

DAVIS IS THE NAME IF BASEBALL'S THE GAME

By Ivan Maisel

John Stallworth

'You Have To Be A Fool At Times'

John Stallworth, the Steelers' great clutch receiver, will be ignoring the footsteps again in season No. 13.

By Ralph Wiley

America's Cup

Out To Byte The Aussies

The San Francisco challenge to rescue the America's Cup from Down Under is a high-tech trip

By Sarah Ballard

Track & Field

Aouita over Rono? Oh, no no

Said Aouita came close but couldn't break Henry Rono's 3,000-meter record

By Kenny Moore

Inside

BASEBALL

By Peter Gammons

Greg Norman

STORMIN' NORMAN

Greg Norman, golf's Great White Shark, charged after a Grand Slam, and though he came away with just one major, it was a merry and wild chase indeed

By Barry McDermott

Reminiscence

A FOND FAREWELL TO A BASEBALL MAN WHO WASN'T AFRAID TO TAKE CHANCES

By Henry Hecht

For The Record

A roundup of the week Aug. 11-17

Compiled by James E. Reynolds

FACES IN THE CROWD

19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER

Edited by Gay Flood

Departments

LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER

By Donald J. Barr

SCORECARD

Edited by Robert Sullivan