Sport: The Benefits Not in a Contract

There were better weeks than last for canceling a sport. Couldn't strikes be timed to follow a good drug bust, or any of the disgraces that once were rare...

People: Apr. 23, 1984

She was riding a downtown subway in Manhattan at 3 a.m. on Christmas night when a photographer asked her to pose for a picture. Thus began the modeling career of...

AMERICAN NOTES: Who Do You Trust?

U.S. companies pay millions a year to star athletes, managers and assorted other sports figures to endorse products. But do American men actually buy Noxzema...

People: Nov. 26, 1984

It seemed a simple enough stunt, so simple that Actress Kate Nelligan, 33, was determined to run the explosive course herself. On location in Spain, the actress...

People: Oct. 3, 1983

When he wore the green-and-white jersey of the New York Jets, Joe Namath, 40, was known as Broadway Joe for his love of swinging night life. Now he is back on...

People, May 22, 1978

After warming the bench for the Los Angeles Rams, Joe Namath is ready for action. And he gets it on a train speeding through the Alps in the movie Avalanche...

Sport: Limping for Life

Only eight years ago, the passing records that Tarkenton is closing in on seemed like the future property of another man. But this season Joe Namath leads the...

Sport: Preposterous Pay

If future historians ever try to pinpoint the time when sport pay scales turned preposterous, they may well pick last week. In three cities money was being...

Football: Impossible Reality

Considering the circumstances, New York Jet Coach Weeb Ewbank's final instructions to his team before the Super Bowl in Miami last week verged on the...

Sport: No. 1, and Still Counting

At last, the Bear of Alabama goes over the mountain After 315 victories now, after all the history of the past 36 years and after all the hyperbole of the past...