Sometimes called poor man's polo, the seemingly gentle hobby of raising and racing pigeons often brings out the beast in its enthusiasts, even though the winning purse for a race is usually...

BASKETBALL—NBA: Only the Knicks were excluded from the scuffle among the teams of the Eastern Division for first place last week. PHILADELPHIA (8-3), which began the week in third, took four...

40-41—James Drake42—Bob Cargill-Houston Post, Des Moines Register & Tribune43, 48-50—Tony Triolo44—Stan Wayman-Rapho-Guillumette for LIFE57—Walter Iooss Jr.58—Bob Peterson59—James Drake60—Art...

Sally Pechinsky, a sophomore honor student at Peabody (Mass.) High School, defeated Mrs. Sophie Trett of Washington 4-2 in a fence-off to take the Women's "B" foil title in an Amateur Fencers'...

PORK BARRELSirs:Congratulations! Dan Jenkins has redeemed himself with a masterpiece of reporting on our Razorbacks and Coach Broyles (Man for the Next Few Seasons, Nov. 8). He splendidly puts...

THE EASY WAYAfter its narrow victory over Oklahoma State last Saturday, Nebraska's football team announced it had accepted an invitation to play in the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day. The hasty...

•Blanton Collier, coach of the Cleveland Browns, commenting on an opinion that Jim Brown is a poor blocker: "Man o' War was a fabulous racehorse. Undoubtedly he could have pulled a plow, too, but...

The title fight is on in Las Vegas, where Gilbert Rogin writes of the champion and how he won and discusses what went wrong in the hopes and plans of the man who was defeated.

That is what a blithely unconcerned Cassius Clay thinks Monday night's heavyweight championship fight will be. But his manager is uneasy and Floyd Patterson figures to do some shooting, too

The members of our writing staff take their sports straight and with stern self-control. This coolness is expected of them, for they must look through the excitement of the moment to get a lucid,...

Baltimore and Cleveland seemed safe topside in the NFL's divisional races, but in the hold some of the best fights in football were raging, as the 49ers and the Lions showed in a thriller in Tiger...

Iowa amateur Floren DiPaglia, who never before had such a tournament-winning year, turned out to be a loser with the USGA, and certain unpleasantness in Texas and North Carolina came to light

If, that is, you have a temperament like the Montreal Canadiens' Toe Blake, who broods when his championship hockey teams fall behind and who really sweats when they start to go ahead

With almost indecent haste, bowl promoters were in the winners' locker rooms, contracts in hand. The Orange Bowl signed up Nebraska—precluding any chance of a 'national championship' game should...

THE BACK: Sophomore Quarterback Kim King's left-handed passes ruined Virginia 42-19 and shot Georgia Tech into the Gator Bowl. Completing 21 of 30 tosses for 319 yards and two touchdowns, King set...

MICHIGAN STATE OVER NOTRE DAMEAfter fierce head-knocking, a plus for State defense.

Sudden Death Sabol invented his name, his home and a new way to make a football team. He is the college game's least modest player and, oddly enough, he is almost as good as he says he is

In the '20s a house was not considered really furnished unless its accessories included a mah-jongg set. As times changed, first bridge, then television and finally Scrabble, dominated game rooms...

The entertainments photographed on the preceding pages have two things in common: they appeal to adults, and they are well designed. People are rejecting poor-quality games. "Everyone is tired of...

Late fall is a beautiful season in the Pennsylvania woods, but when the deer hunters come the beauty is best observed from a deep-dug foxhole or the steel safety of a tank

Her book is finished—Any Child Can Swim—and now, if a publisher is interested, Eleanor Holm is ready to talk terms. The champagne-imbibing Olympic swimmer of the early '30s is back from an...

Five times the middleweight champion, Ray Robinson discovers at 45 that it is far better to retire than to keep struggling for the unattainable

Only second-stringers came over from Paris, but they saved the day at Laurel, transforming a mighty dull prospect into a razzle-dazzle race

Riding circles around its competitors at New York's Madison Square Garden, the U.S. team made the best National in years truly national

Eighteen pairs of the country's best bridge players are competing in San Francisco this week to see which three partnerships will represent the U.S. in the 1966 World Championships in St. Vincent,...

Drive over one of the expressways to a University of Michigan football game and you rarely see a road sign pointing to Ann Arbor. The signs merely read EXIT TO STADIUM. The stadium was built in...

There was this handsome man in knickerbockers coming toward me on the gravel path leading to the St. Andrews course," said George Turpie, reaching back to recall a meeting before the 1895 British...