NOT WITH A NIBBLE BUT A GULP

•Buzzie Bavasi, Dodger general manager, asked why the Los Angeles pinch-hitting had been so bad: "I know, it's just been terrible—we haven't won a pennant since last October."

The end of the costly, six-year war between the National and American Football leagues was the result of long secret talks. The general manager of the Dallas Cowboys, who was the NFL's principal...

1 Pete Rozelle (above) will be commissioner.2 The leagues will play a world championship game this season.3 All existing franchises remain at present sites.4 A common draft will be held in January...

After 36 days in the lead, the San Francisco Giants had to face the Los Angeles Dodgers, the team they worry about. What could go wrong? Well, Sandy Koufax could go right, and he did, pitching a...

The erratic New York Yankees, dismal failures under austere Johnny Keane, revived dramatically under dynamic Ralph Houk. Here is a detailed analysis of what happened, and why

The toughest test in golf is the U.S. Open, held this year at San Francisco's Olympic Club. Alfred Wright describes how the modern pros solved an old-fashioned course.

It is Europe's foremost automobile race but, because of its myriad parts and exhausting length, it is more a happening than a neat sports competition. The 200,000 spectators who attend the 34th...

Though it rends the hearts of the bulldozer boys, the 800 residents of Stone Harbor, N.J. are proudly devoting a million dollars' worth of oceanfront to America's only municipal heronry

Rich Clarkson took his first photograph of Jim Ryun in 1963. It showed a gawky high school sophomore standing with other members of the Wichita East High School two-mile relay team at the Kansas...

That's manager Charlie Brown, star of funny paper, television and pitcher's mound, guilelessly emerging out of the middle distance. And though for a moment there he had a glimmer of hope,...

"Short fishing excursions in which I have sought relief from the wearing labors and perplexities of official duties have been denounced in a mendacious newspaper as dishonest devices to conceal...

The Devon, Pa. horse show, largest in the East, was almost unmanageably bigger than ever this year, with 1,299 horses and ponies entered in the eight-day affair, and no exhibitor had a bigger or...

Under the direction of Wally Dill, the players' tour is becoming bigger, better organized and, most important of all, more lucrative

There came a moment when Jim Ryun knew that Michel Jazy's mile record was not unapproachable and someday all middle-distance records might be his

Michel Jazy, the present world mile record holder, offers his sincere appraisal of Ryun

BOATING—Renamed BIG BROAD JUMPER, the boat once known as Maritime won the 194-mile Gateway Marathon for the second year in a row as Bill Wishnick and Allan Brown skippered the 32-foot aluminum...

4—Perry Riddle-Topeka Capitol Journal14—Shel Hershorn-Black Star16, 17—Bob Gomel-LIFE, Bill Eppridge-LIFE, Flip Schulke-LIFE, I. C. Rapoport-LIFE18—Tony Triolo22—Herb Scharfman23—Art Shay43—Steve...

John Aschen, a 20-year-old bookkeeper from The Bronx, set a new American 50-mile bicycling record as he won the Tour of Somerville (N.J.) race in one hour 59 minutes 29.4 seconds over Alan Bell of...

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Mention Sonny Siebert to the Angels or the Twins and they'll run for their bats. Mention him to the Senators and they'll just run. In his last two starts, Sonny Siebert had given up 11 earned runs...

VIEW FROM THE STANDSSirs:Bob Ottum is right. Indy must mend its rules (A Crazy, Mixed-up 500, June 6). The starting rows should be two abreast, and the starting field itself should be cut.

The idea of making a surfboard less cumbersome by cutting it in half is not new, but up to now the problem has been to design a collapsible board that would really work. Herman Bank, a Jet...

After an autumn snowfall the men and boys of a Canadian hamlet had to improvise when an All-Star team turned up. The snow was burned off, and the game became a bright winter memory