The hazards of horse racing regularly produce high drama, and last Saturday they nearly reduced to a crashing shambles one of the important tests for the Kentucky Derby. It is an oddity of the...

The main reason for the visit to West Point last week by 98 cadets of the Royal Military College of Canada was a hockey game. The U.S. won 9-4, a setback Canadian Berny Laliberte (left) accepted...

The Bearcats should win the NCAA basketball title again, but there will be the Blue Devil to pay if Duke gets hot

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Basketball's Hoopla hits its peak at the NCAA championship, where sellout crowds create a background of bedlam for the finals. Color photographs capture all of it.

Chuck Ferries left home at 16 to find a big mountain. He found it. Now 23 and a champion on big mountains everywhere, he leads a young U.S. group that could soon shake the skiing world

The intense young woman opposite, caparisoned in the severe uniform and the exotic implements of her unusual profession, may well be the greatest woman bullfighter who has ever lived. Not everyone...

If you want to know what all this jazz is about piranhas, I'll tell you. You're clearly not with it unless you've at least seen some film on how a school of these fish can reduce a cow to gleaming...

The Arabian is now a popular U.S. breed and his own show is a first-rate affair

Too many bridge plays have formidable names. They sound so erudite that the average man is convinced he could never learn how to use them. Yet most of these maneuvers were originated right at the...

The luxurious extras that make spring training a spa for most ballplayers are missing from the Colt .45s' bleak camp in Arizona, where the ghost of an old prospector walks in the rarefied air

Innocent of prizefighting's bad old ways, these gentlemen hope by their example to put an end to the exploiting of boxers. They expect Clay to get rich—and to get a little bit richer themselves

THE YANKS HAVE LANDED

•Dorothy Albrecht, manager of the Oklahoma swimming team and the first girl in history to manage one of the school's athletic teams: "It's kinda nice having 35 brothers. Boys are fun. I'm getting...

It is almost time for the NCAA championship tournament again, and coaches from Corvallis, Ore. to Durham, N.C. are trying to convince themselves that the name of this event should not be changed...

BADMINTON—CANADA defeated the defending champion United States 11-4 in the annual Lapham Cup series, but Doug Brock of Toronto had to fight his way through a tough rive-game match with Larry Sears...

Ernie Shay, 86, of Altadena, Calif., who first bowled in 1890, still takes to the lanes each week to represent his Elks team in league competition. He averaged between 198 and 216 for 59 years,...

16, 17—Larry Sharkey-Los Angeles Times19, 20—Phil Bath21—Herb Schorfman24—U.P.I., James Drake26—Herb Schorfman, Malcolm Emmons30—Cal Queal-Denver Post48, 49—Gardner McKay62, 63—Robert...

FEUD FOR THOUGHTSirs:I would like to compliment William Leggett on his fine article, They Want at Each Other—Bad (Feb. 25). It brought out the tremendous rivalry between the greatest pro ball club...

An NIT basketball championship quiz to stimulate the memory and increase the knowledge of fans and armchair experts

Civil War soldiers relaxed between battles with a variety of makeshift games and sports