April 13, 1987 Table Of Contents
Focus
NO TIP OF THE HAT FROM THIS JAPANESE PITCHER
Spotlight
RIGHT ON TARGET FOR STRIKES AND RINGERS
Radio
IF ERNIE'S ON, IT MUST BE SPRING
By William Taaffe
Derby Preps
With four weeks to go, a trio of prep races further muddied the Kentucky Derby picture
By Demmies Stathoplos
Dwight Gooden
All baseball was stunned when Met superstar Dwight Gooden entered a Manhattan clinic after testing positive for cocaine
By Steve Wulf
Steve Alford
Steve Alford, who helped lead Indiana to the NCAA crown, has added another chapter to his state's marvelous hoops history
Bob Tway
Bob Tway had a dicey time making the PGA Tour, but now he's on a roll
By Rick Reilly
Swimming
Seniors Matt Biondi and Pablo Morales won big at the NCAAs
By Craig Neff
Golf
Quiet Betsy King won the Dinah Shore after a battle of the birdies and a playoff
By Jaime Diaz
Attacking The Amazon
...and vice versa. The author (knee-deep), his son, John (a-muck) and the guide (slime left) found the mud worse than the piranhas
By Roy Blount Jr.
Reminiscence
The author offers an elegy to heavyweight lifter John Davis
First Person
A pitch from Burger King made this softball player drool
By Larry Colton
For The Record
A Roundup of the Week March 30-April 5
Compiled by Bailey Breene Gendron
Point After
The NHL playoffs seem more like a marathon than hockey
By E.M. Swift
Departments
Edited by Gay Flood
Edited by Robert Sullivan
Idle for almost three years, Sugar Ray Leonard made a spectacular return to the ring by beating Marvin Hagler to win the middleweight title
By William Nack