After four months of competition, the college basketball season ended in a final flurry of excitement that tilled two great arenas to overflowing and captured the attention of millions on...

BASKETBALL—NBA: The St. Louis Hawks, led by Bob Pettit's three-game average of 36 points, were ahead of Detroit 2-1 in the best-of-five playoff series. The winner plays Los Angeles. In the Eastern...

24, 25—James Drake26-35—Peter Turner-Brackman Associates42—Tony Triolo, Bill Kuenzel67—Tony Triolo69—Flip Schulke—Black Star102—A.P., Stu Apte, Jim Nickless, Jimmy Banks, Joe Ryan, William Rooney

Dale Miller, 18, of Ogden, Utah, proved himself one of the U.S.'s most promising young skiers, winning the downhill and giant slalom in the National Junior ski championships at Jackson, Wyo. He...

BIRDS AND BULLSSirs:Congratulations on your excellent article of March 11, A Brave Matadora Explains the Bullfight. I'm sorry you don't publish more like it. I do not mean articles that simply try...

TRACK'S COLD WAR HEATS UP

•Jim Ewell, Houston Colt trainer, after veteran Catcher Hal Smith suffered two split fingers: "Usually it takes 10 days for an injury like that to heal. But with all the fine young catchers in...

Battered helpless by Sugar Ramos, Champion Davey Moore sits on the canvas at Dodger Stadium a moment after his head bounced off the ring ropes. An hour later Moore fell into a deep coma, and three...

Conservative Cincinnati had its third straight national championship all but won. Then brash Loyola broke through the Bearcat stall for an almost unbelievable last-second victory

Lung for lung, Cincinnati's basketball boosters are the loudest, brashest, wildest and usually happiest in all the land. Whether in field houses during games or on the streets later on, they...

IT COMES IN A GEORGIA SPRINGTIME, AND ITS MOODS ARE AS INVITING AND COMPLEX AS THE SEASON. HERE KEN VENTURI HITS FROM A REFLECTING POOL, TROUBLED AMID SERENITY. OTHER MASTERS MOMENTS, AND A STUDY...

GOLF'S BIG THREE, THE RULERS OF THE PRO TOUR, WILL MAKE THE MASTERS AN EPIC BATTLE—AND OTHERS HAVE COMBAT PLANS, TOO

As trim as her beloved 'Bolero,' Sally Langmuir is one of very few women hardy enough to brave the rigors of ocean racing. In winds and storms she has found resolution and contentment

'O to be a frog, lads, and live aloof from care' is a pretty jazzy translation of a quote from Theocritus, the Greek poet. In those days frogs lived like Riley, but now, with gourmets eating them...

Records were broken with awesome regularity during the AAU championships, a frothy battle from which Indiana's taut-trained swimmers emerged with a national title they have long wanted and deserved

Fearless Ferraris, much as expected, took the first six places at Sebring, but some new U.S. cars looked like bright winners of the future

Make no mistake about it, playing winning bridge is a science. In the long run, the luck of the cards has to balance out and the best man finishes on top. The player who claims his finesses never...

Next week the 'Dick Powell Theater' asks the question: Can Underdog Ricardo Montalban (supine with barbell below) find happiness matching muscle with the villainous Lee Marvin (standing)?

A Stanley Cup playoff quiz to excite the memory and increase the knowledge of fans and armchair experts

Everyone, that is, except his owner, who cleaned up when the greyhound romped in at 100 to 1