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I WAS shy and geeky as a kid. The summer I turned 14, my parents sent me to Boy Scout camp, where I figured I'd be eating regular meals, canoeing, […]

Reports on a compromise reached between the Madison Square Garden (MSG) Network and the Cablevision Systems Corporation over sports services to cable subscribers. Conflict seen to reflect nationwide concerns over access to televised sports events and how to pass the costs of the service to viewers; Future of basic service in cable.

Presents an obituary of Leo Durocher, perhaps major league baseball's best example of the win-at-all-costs manager, one who viewed the game not as a challenging pastime for talented athletes but as a sports relative of guerrilla warfare. He died of natural causes on October 7 in Palm Springs, Calif., at age 86.

Presents an obituary of Greg Rice, an almost unbeatable distance runner of half a century ago who won the 1940 Sullivan Award. He died on May 19 at the Hackensack, N.J., Medical Center of complications from a stroke. He was 75 years old and lived in River Edge, N.J.

Presents an obituary of Bill Riordan, a freewheeling promoter who managed the early career of Jimmy Connors. He died of heart failure in Naples, Fla., on January 20 at age 71.