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March 14, 1966 | Gwilym S. Brown
It seemed likely that the AAU indoor nationals would be grounded by the most dedicated bungling in years, but then Albuquerque's earnest organizers and some brilliant new track stars saved the meet

March 14, 1966 | Tex Maule
Jerry Quarry, a young man with a lot to learn about fighting, passed an early test last week when he drew with wily Tony Alongi and showed ringsiders he might eventually become the successor to Clay

March 14, 1966 | Nat Fleischer
For the past 43 years Nat Fleischer, the editor of Ring Magazine, has published prizefighting's most authoritative ratings. Here is his assessment of the future for the emerging group of young...

March 14, 1966 | Whitney Tower
Buckpasser triumphed in a wild win, lose, win contest in the betless Flamingo at Hialeah before a booing audience, and Boldnesian confused the Kentucky future by beating Saber Mountain at Santa Anita

March 14, 1966
Stay out of the trees and trouble if you want to score well in golf. U.S. Open Champion Gary Player discloses his method of hitting the ball right down the middle.

March 14, 1966 | Frank Deford
Without a defending champion, an unbeaten team or a solid favorite in sight, the big boys of college basketball begin their annual two-week rumble to determine the national championship

March 14, 1966 | Garry Valk
Basketball fans all over the country—always an excitable lot anyway—are busy this week buying or searching for tickets, automatically yelling at anything in vertical stripes, hotly debating among...

March 14, 1966 | Jack Mann
It is fact-facing time at Vero Beach. Short days ago it was a bright new spring on the Los Angeles Dodgers' proving grounds behind the old Navy barracks, and all things seemed possible. For a...

March 14, 1966 | Bob Ottum
In Los Angeles, Union Pacific loads a 22-car train with skiers, dancers and lovers and then aims the whole shebang at Sun Valley, 1,100 miles away

March 14, 1966
The suite named after the Minnesota Twins in the Hotel Leamington in Minneapolis looks pretty much like the suite named after the Minnesota Vikings in the same hotel, but the tab is slightly...

March 14, 1966 | Jack Nicklaus
One excuse that you do not hear for a poor golf shot is: "I didn't use enough right foot that time." Well, it may surprise you, but the neglected right foot could very well rate at the top of the...

March 14, 1966 | Mark Mulvoy
Ken Harrelson of the Athletics told everyone he would win the baseball players' golf tournament in Miami, and he did—just as he has been beating people at the game of their choice for most of his...

March 14, 1966 | John Lovesey
The presence of Bill Bradley drew 500 spectators to the Oxford-Cambridge varsity match last week, but the important thing was the postgame party

March 14, 1966 | Charles Goren
If the game were only basketball, the halls of Galileo High in San Francisco would be overflowing with all of the scouts who have had little to do since Lew Alcindor decided to go to UCLA. The...

March 14, 1966 | Clive Gammon
It was a great day that started dismally. Flannery was off banging his bass drum for Easters past and present and the tide was coming in to cover the bait, but the bass were swarming off the coast...

March 14, 1966
WHITHER THE FIGHT?

March 14, 1966
•The Celtics' Bill Russell, sporting a lace-front shirt: "You have to be six ten and weigh 220 to get away with it."

March 14, 1966 | Mervin Hyman
For most teams the season was over and done with. But 37 major colleges—including new conference champions Duke, Michigan, Rhode Island, Southern Methodist, Oregon State, Utah and Pacific—and 40...

March 14, 1966
BASKETBALL—NBA: PHILADELPHIA (48-25) charged into first place in the Eastern Division, half a game ahead of the Celtics, with only two weeks left in the season. The 76ers started the week with a...

March 14, 1966
16—Neil Leifer18, 19—Rich Clarkson20, 22—Herb Scharfman23—Wil Blanche24, 25—Jerry Cooke, Joe Consentino (2)26—Sheedy & Long31—Jerry Cooke34—Stuart Smith58—UPI63—Walter Iooss Jr.66, 67—Gerry...

March 14, 1966
Jim Otte, 8, of the Buckeye Blue Dolphin swim team in Columbus, Ohio, won the 25-yard freestyle (17.1) and backstroke (20.0) and swam on the winning 100-yard medley and freestyle relay teams at...

March 14, 1966
HOKY-POKYSirs:Congratulations to Frank Deford on his article, A Pair of Sparklers in Poky (Feb. 21). It's great when you can read about a team that's not always winning.JESS GORDONSchenectady

March 14, 1966 | Pamela Knight
Forget everything you ever knew about vacation housing. Forget the $50-a-day tab just to put a roof over the heads of the family when you go skiing. Outboard Marine Corporation, a concern that...

March 14, 1966 | Jack Mahon
A taint still clings to Jockey Johnny Loftus, who rode the great horse, Man o' War, in the only race Big Red ever lost