Injury-plagued Matt Leinart steels himself for his third season

AT THE tumultuous 1968 Mexico City Games, Wyomia Tyus did something no other Olympian, man or woman, had done before. She won the gold medal in the 100-meter sprint for a second consecutive time, pairing it with the...

IT WAS a high school joke that became a sports phenomenon. In the fall of 1968 Joel Silver, a junior at Columbia High in Maplewood, N.J., raised his hand at a student council meeting: "I move that we establish a...

2:43:33 Time, in hours, minutes and seconds, it took Hans Florine, 44, and Yuji Hirayama, 39, to scale the 2,900-foot Nose route on El Capitan, a granite formation in Yosemite National Park, on July 2—a record.

The Patriots' receiver buys a NASCAR team

NOTWITHSTANDING HIS more than 230 victories, including the 1967 British Open, Roberto De Vicenzo's fame comes from one very costly mistake. On the final day of the 1968 Masters, the Argentinean shot a seven-under 65...

AS A big league pitcher, Luis Tiant baffled hitters with a contortionist's delivery in which he turned his back to the plate in the midst of his windup. Now, in retirement, the hurler has faced down his toughest...

Olympian Kenny Moore profiles Carlos and Smith, at SI.com/WATN.

Party to one of the most incendiary moments in the history of sports, he's gone from pariah to hero over the course of four decades—but not without paying a high cost

An English soccer player was fined $2,600 for hitting a nightclub doorman in the head with his girlfriend's handbag.