The Big Five basketball teams have their private war in the Palestra every season—and this year St. Joe's and Villanova rank nationally

The AFL All-Star game, scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 16, in the Sugar Bowl, was shifted to Houston last Monday by Commissioner Joe Foss. There was an ugly reason: the 22 Negro players on the East...

The favorites of professional golf gather in Los Angeles to start splitting up 1965's record purse of $3.25 million, but a menacing army of rookies has conquest plans, too

Hockey's scoring record won't just be broken. It will be smashed to bits if the Black Hawks' Bobby Hull keeps up his present shooting streak. Bill Leggett looks at the breakaway.

Six months after the topless-swimsuit brouhaha, bare skin—or styling that gives the illusion thereof—is the thing to wear under the sun. Where do we go from here?

The byline that appears more often than any other in these pages reads "by Mervin Hyman." In the fall it is signed to FOOTBALL'S WEEK; from December until April it is carried over BASKETBALL'S...

Shocked by their opening loss to Minnesota, the Colts played a pivotal game against a Packer team that had just dismembered the Bears. Two plays in that game made Baltimore a winner

Interception by Linebacker Don Shinnick (above) in play diagramed below was the key to the Colts' first victory over Green Bay. Packer Quarterback Bart Starr overlooked an open receiver (Tom...

Mrs. Richard Burton, that Elizabeth more British than the Queen, arrived in London with dark glasses hiding a black eye and a plaster stuck to her white-marble forehead. "I had a bit of an...

After 16 fighting years the National Hockey League thought it was done with Terrible Ted Lindsay, but he's back again—bad as ever

The indoor track season got under way last week, and despite forebodings of disaster the outlook suddenly brightened. There will be girls, more foreign stars and new races to take the place of...

His name is Lew Mathe, but in the world of bridge he is generally referred to, with some awe, as Big Lew. A rugged-looking man with iron-gray hair, Mathe is one of the country's top players,...

The inhabitants of Baja California Sur frankly consider the Yanqui tourists who descend upon their cactus-spiked land to be nothing less than demented. And truly, as is indicated by Jay Maisel's...

GETTING THERE: Baja California Sur is the southern half of the 800-mile-long peninsula that extends from the U.S. border to Cabo San Lucas. To cross the border, vacationers need a Mexican tourist...

BASKETBALL—Unbeatable BOSTON (37-7 and seven games ahead) extended its winning streak to 12 by winning four more games, and the only suspense left in the Eastern Division is over how many games...

Arline Reid, 33, of Readfield, Me., a supermarket cashier and the mother of two, who took up shooting only a year ago, gained four of the six available trophies in a women's class of eight at the...

4—Joseph Consentino25—Curt Gunther26—George Long and Jack Sheedy34—Jay Maisel42—Walter Iooss Jr.44—Lee Balterman, diagrams by William Bernstein49—AP, Hank Reichard-Columbus Citizen-Journal50—Tony...

More than ever before, multiple defenses have become an integral part of college basketball. Last week coaches everywhere were busy shifting their teams in and out of a wide variety of zones and...

RELIEFSirs:It is known throughout the football world that the AFL is creeping up on the NFL in popularity and caliber of play. But in my mind the Buffalo Bills set their league back several years.

PUNDIT OFF BASE

•Gomer Jones, Oklahoma coach, after declaring four of his players ineligible because they signed pro contracts before the Gator Bowl game and then losing 36-19: "Maybe I'll get my reward in heaven."