Sonny Liston pulls up lame, challenger Floyd Patterson is ashamed and loud Cassius Clay turns out to be an illogical contender

How tall are you?" said Cassius Clay to Douglas Jones the other day. "Why do you ask that?" said Jones, warily.

The South was stirred—and more than a bit confused—last week by sensational charges of a rigged college football game. It may well be replayed before long, but this time in a courtroom

Duke and Loyola, a pair of teams that shoot and run, are moving on to the NCAA finals in Louisville, where two-time champion Cincinnati waits with its waiting game

Golf's touring professionals, thriving in their golden age, have become a comparatively sane and urbane lot. They tend to dress and behave like the president of anybody's First National Bank—while...

The masters' mood is illuminated in 10 pages of haunting color; then scouting reports assess Palmer vs. Player vs. Nicklaus—and eight others who threaten the Big Three.

"Let early education," advised Plato, "be a sort of amusement." In one of the most exciting—and certainly the most pleasant—pedagogic innovations in postwar Europe, French educators have combined...

Spring comes gently to high Colorado, and the scene becomes one of softness: the new green grass is dappled with shadows from budding branches of streamside willows (opposite); slender white...

Fearful of withering on an ivy vine back home, Swimming Coach Peter Daland (below) took off for southern California, where he now manages a classy pack of past, present and future champions

There were 600 spectators looking on and television cameras peeping about to catch the nuances of each coup last week when the American International Team made its competitive debut at the...

While Toronto's citizens watched in polite silence, hockey's most gentlemanly team methodically slaughtered its uncouth rivals

Whether he is seated expressionless behind the wheel of a racing car or on the road selling aluminum, Roger Penske is obsessed with a passion to go the fastest, to be the best, to get on top

LIPPY AGAINThe Los Angeles Dodgers are afraid that Leo Durocher's forthcoming memoirs will further muddy the already troubled waters that flow in the Dodger organization. Leo will repeat his...

•Red Auerbach, Boston Celtic coach, after his Bob Cousy was described as the greatest contribution to Americana since the Statue of Liberty: "No comparison, she hasn't got the moves."

The college basketball season was in its final days, and as far as the NCAA championship was concerned, the thing to be was a favorite. Sixteen teams played in the four NCAA regional elimination...

BASKETBALL—NBA: The regular season ended just the way everybody said it would before it began, Boston running away in the Eastern Division and Los Angeles an easy winner in the West. The Celtics...

15—Mark Kauffman16—Neil Leifer17—Henry Grossman-TIME18, 19—Jay B. Leviton from WSB-TV, Atlanta20, 21—AP, Jay B. Leviton (3)22—Tony Triolo24,25—Rich Clarkson27—Fred Lyon from...

Lonnie Rubis, 22, an undefeated University of Minnesota wrestler, won 19 straight matches in spite of being so nearsighted that he can't see his opponent's face. "I watch his stomach," says Rubis,...

INDEXSirs:Being an avid Dodger fan, I want to thank you for your article (An Urgent Matter of One Index Finger, March 4) on Sandy Koufax. Robert Creamer did an excellent job of covering this great...

An NBA championship playoff quiz to stimulate the memory and increase the knowledge of fans