Sullivan Award; Swimmer Evans wins Sullivan amateur award
March 13, 1990
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INDIANAPOLIS - Swimmer Janet Evans routinely collects records and medals in sizable bunches.
The Stanford University freshman picked up three Olympic gold medals in 1988. She also holds three world records, including an 800-meter freestyle mark set last year.
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Great day to be 43; Nolan Ryan's no-hitter gives others a boost; 'Age is no limitation' to achievement
June 13, 1990
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On behalf of 43-year-olds everywhere: Thank you, Nolan Ryan.
We've lived through the just-turned-40 birthdays with all those over-the-hill jokes. We're up to here with midlife crisis and menopause on the horizon. We are living with sullen teen-age children, paying second mortgages, hating ex-husbands with trophy wives and realizing that the American Dream may not be all it's cracked up to be.
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Sullivan goes to wrestler John Smith
March 12, 1991
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INDIANAPOLIS - Wrestler John Smith was named the winner of the AAU James E. Sullivan Award, given to the USA's top amateur athlete, in a Monday night ceremony.
It's the first time a wrestler has won the award.
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'One more miracle'; Connors defies years at U.S. Open; Veteran put age, heart on display
Sept. 3, 1991
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NEW YORK - While Jimmy Connors turned 39 Monday at the U.S. Open, everyone who saw his improbable, if not preposterous, victory also aged.
"Knowing that those people want to see one more miracle, and for me to be able to pull off another stunt like this, you have to laugh," Connors said after a match that was impossible to watch without sharing his fatigue. He limped, screamed and clawed his way past Aaron Krickstein in an adrenaline-draining show that capsulized everything the name "Jimbo" has come to represent.
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Edberg's dream comes true; Swede stuns Courier in lopsided final
Sept. 9, 1991
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NEW YORK - Stefan Edberg ended a career of U.S. Open nightmares Sunday.
"It was almost like a dream out there," the Swede said after throttling Jim Courier 6-2, 6-4, 6-0 to win his first championship at Flushing Meadow.
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Dravecky's new era; Loss of arm breaks heart but not spirit
Feb. 28, 1992
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Will I miss baseball? I suspect that when spring comes, and I talk on the telephone to Atlee (Hammaker) about how he's pitching, and the weather in Ohio is warming up, I'll wish I could be there. I'll see somebody pitch and think, 'It could be me.' - Dave Dravecky, in his 1990 autobiography, "Comeback."
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'I lost my dignity'; Baseball legend Pete Rose gets prison for tax evasion; Another kind of record now mars career
July 20, 1990
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Pete Rose has always been about numbers. The one we were supposed to remember for all time was 4,256. No one in baseball has more hits.
Thursday, the numbers in Rose's life turned against him: Five months in prison ... three months in a halfway house ... 1,000 hours of community service ... $50,000 fine.
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Roseanne's shrill 'anthem' hits sour note
July 27, 1990
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Oh, say, can you screech?
Roseanne Barr sure can.
The comedian's shrill, 53-second rendition of the national anthem and "parody" of baseball players at San Diego's Jack Murphy Stadium is causing an uproar across the USA.
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Rose enters jail quietly in Illinois
Aug. 9, 1990
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Baseball's No. 14 became inmate No. 01832061 Wednesday as Pete Rose reported to Marion (Ill.) Federal Prison Camp to begin serving a five-month sentence for filing false income tax returns.
The former Cincinnati Reds star slipped into the minimum-security facility in a federal van about noon CDT. Rose, who drove from Cincinnati with his wife and a family friend, had arranged beforehand to have prison officials pick him up in town, about 9 miles from the camp.
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Manley: There's no excuse, no one to blame
Dec. 13, 1991
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Dexter Manley's troubled 11-year career ended abruptly Thursday when he retired from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after failing a drug test.
"I have no excuse and no one to blame," Manley said. Now a four-time violator of the NFL's substance-abuse policies, Manley was twice suspended - for 30 days in 1988, for a year in 1989, with reinstatement Nov. 19, 1990.
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Rose booted off Hall ballot; Only chance: Apply, win reinstatement
Feb. 5, 1991
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Pete Rose's 1992 Hall of Fame dream was dashed Monday when the Hall's board of directors voted 12-0 to adopt a rule barring any player on the permanently ineligible list.
Rose, banished from baseball for life in 1989 because of gambling, was to appear on the Baseball Writers Association of America ballot next winter. He's the only living player on the ineligible list.
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NBA slaps lifetime ban on Tarpley
Oct. 17, 1991
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Dallas Mavericks forward Roy Tarpley was banned for life from the National Basketball Association Wednesday for refusing to take a drug test.
Tarpley, who was to make $3 million this season, refused the test after he missed practices this week. Tarpley has had two previous drug-related suspensions, and, under league policy, this third violation meant a lifetime ban. However, he can reapply for admission in two years.
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Tyson on Tyson: 'I'm no bad guy'
Jan. 27, 1992
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INDIANAPOLIS - Boxer Mike Tyson is many things to many people: mesmerizing ring brute, rags-to-riches superstar, incorrigible ruffian, black role model, lecherous lout, cash cow, symbol of humanity's dark side.
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Tyson convicted on all counts
Feb. 11, 1992
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INDIANAPOLIS - Two years ago Monday night, Mike Tyson lost his identity as an invincible destroyer in the ring when a journeyman fighter knocked him out.
On the anniversary of that devastating loss of his heavyweight championship, he lost a lot more.
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Bail request fails; Tyson stays in jail
Apr. 1, 1992
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Mike Tyson stays in prison.
That's what a three-judge panel ruled Tuesday when it refused to grant the ex-heavyweight champion bail pending appeal of his rape conviction last week at Indianapolis.
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'Everything with grace'; Ashe: AIDS 'just another' crisis to overcome; Star wanted this news to stay 'private'
Apr. 9, 1992
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Arthur Ashe created a defining moment of history in the tumultuous year of 1968 - a black man, an amateur, a lieutenant in the Army, won tennis' U.S. Open.
That Open ushered in the era of professionals in tennis. With amateur Ashe winning, runner-up Tom Okker walked off with the $14,000 top prize.
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Ashe reveals AIDS infection; Unscreened transfusion likely cause
Apr. 9, 1992
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NEW YORK - Tennis great Arthur Ashe ended years of silence Wednesday, announcing he has had AIDS since 1988.
"I have known since the time of my brain surgery in September 1988," said Ashe, 48, reading from a statement at a packed news conference. "Any admission of HIV infection at that time would have seriously, permanently and - my wife and I believe - unnecessarily infringed our family right to privacy."
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Tyson faces discipline for threats
May 6, 1992
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Mike Tyson's alleged bad-boy prison conduct might affect time off for good behavior.
Tyson, lodged in solitary confinement, faces a disciplinary hearing after he twice threatened prison guards and supervisors Monday with bodily harm, Indiana Department of Corrections spokesman Kevin Moore said Tuesday.
