Sports headlines for Monday August 17, 1981:
- Baseball Officials Work On Alternate Split-Season Plan
- White Sox' Burns Wins Game For Stricken Father
Today's football transactions:
- Bears traded future considerations to Chargers for Stacy Charles
- Ray Rhodes (49ers) retired
- Redskins traded a conditional #12 pick in the 1982 draft to Lions for Lee Spivey

No games today.