"RACETRACK PEOPLE"

•Doug Weaver, Kansas State football coach, asked to describe his offense: "It's new. We put it in this year. So far, we call it ineffective."

They all came out to see sophomore Bill Bradley light up the Texas sky, but Super Bill couldn't overcome a fierce Southern California team that suited up quite a few superlatives of its own

Pittsburgh came into Los Angeles for a key series, lost two big games to Dodger speed, luck and pitching and left Chavez Ravine looking like a loser. The Pirates had 14 games to go, but hope was...

Last Saturday afternoon Herman Franks, manager of the San Francisco Giants, sat in his office with his cap on backward, a cigar in his mouth, a drink in his hand and his ample forehead covered...

The Los Angeles Rams have a new coach and a new philosophy: wait till this year. Edwin Shrake prowls field, front office and locker room to see how the scheme is working.

The Cowboys' Don Meredith had grown used to jeers from the skeptical Dallas fans, but this sour music turned sweet as Meredith's brilliant passing destroyed the Giants and started Dallas toward a...

Miles from nowhere, out in Billy the Kid country, quarter horses compete (right) for the richest purse in the world, and you can still get a match race there for $100,000

Everybody talks about the weather, so why shouldn't we? Weather is important in our business, and bad weather generally brings trouble to outdoor sports. Tennis and golf matches and baseball games...

Batting is a dying art, mortally wounded by night games, big gloves, scientific defenses, unending lines of relief pitchers and the unreasoning stubbornness of the batters themselves

For four years Louisiana State's Charley McClendon had tried to live down the memory of Paul Dietzel. He finally succeeded last Saturday, but not before Carolina's Dietzel launched a last-gasp...

THE EAST

THE BACK: Steve Spurrier, Florida's do-everything quarterback, wrecked Northwestern. He completed 15 out of 22 passes for 219 yards and three touchdowns, kicked two field goals, averaged 43.5...

All week the press has been awash in rumors from Italy of a Marciano comeback—the unbeaten heavyweight was in training, he was going to take on Cassius Clay. Now the shocking truth is out. The...

With a fortune to share among themselves, the plutocrats of the professional tour are finding that golf is quite an exhausting game

Like overdressed turn-of-the-century grandes dames, the 66-year-old Idem one-designs still sail majestically past many younger boats

When I read the other day that Harry Fishbein was retiring as the head of the Mayfair Bridge Club in New York City, I stopped for a moment to ask myself why, not consciously realizing that...

When balmy weather keeps the salmon down on Norway's Driva River, what can good men do but bravely drink Scotch and rashly eat strawberries?

Born in 1724, George Stubbs. A.R.A., was the son of a prosperous Liverpool tanner. A self-taught artist who was also an anatomist and anatomical artist, Stubbs's equestrian paintings were...

BASEBALL—TORONTO, a Boston Red Sox farm club, won the International League's Governor's Cup playoff for the second consecutive year, defeating Richmond (Atlanta) 6-5 in the final game to take the...

Denize Le Pennec, a 16-year-old British schoolgirl, practiced for her Channel crossing 18 months before becoming the youngest Briton ever to swim the Channel. She crossed from Cape Gris-Nez,...

4—Arthur Brawley26, 27—Herb Scharfman29, 31—Fred Kaplan-Black Star37, 38, 41—Fred Kaplan-Black Star56—Sam King61—London Mirror-Gilloon, Epoque-Roy Cummings66—Dave Jones87—London Express-Pictorial,...

AMERICAN LEAGUE

When the news broke that Dick Schofield had been traded from the Yankees to the Dodgers in early September, it was quickly swallowed up by the yawns of millions of Americans. Last week, however,...

BLASTSirs:Helmets off to SI! Your pro football issue (Sept. 12) was not only your largest, but one of your greatest issues. I enjoyed all of the articles, and the color pictures were fabulous. I...

Some months ago, at a conference called the Family Fishing Clinic held in Cincinnati, spectators were amused and somewhat awed by the spectacle of a 6-year-old boy who was demonstrating a new...

The horses and their improbable riders gathered at Tahoe City, Calif. for the yearly Tevis Cup race across the winding paths and hazardous streams of the Sierra to Auburn, 100 miles away