Ernie Terrell's left hand was a potent weapon against Cassius Clay five years ago (above), but an older, wiser Muhammad Ali should contain it easily this Monday night

"I'm the first tall man Clay has fought. Against those shorter men he could lean back to get away. But my left is too long for that. I've shown I can reach him with it, and I don't have to dance...

Stirring more interest at some colleges than the varsity, basketball's freshman teams include some unusually able players. One is a champion baton-twirler, another is called a Houdini with the ball

For the fancier of sporting dogs, there is no more thrilling spectacle than that of a spirited springer spaniel boldly sailing in to flush and nearly grab a cackling cock pheasant from heavy cover...

The author survives, in a manner of speaking, two of the most testing holes in golf, but then looks up from a gully where he is searching for his ball to discover that he is holding up Arnold...

Ernie or Ali? When the real heavyweight champ stands up in Houston, Tex Maule will be there to report the strategy, tactics—and perhaps the psychological warfare—of the victor.

On Grand Bahama Island pleasure divers now have what they have long wanted: a club where novices can learn easily and experts have a chance to stretch their luck a little

It was five years ago that we made what we considered a rather daring move and hired as the author of our regular golf instruction series a neophyte professional named Jack Nicklaus. It was not...

The stakes in Vietnam were apparently higher than anyone could have imagined—the stakes, that is, in the midmorning poker games of some wives of prominent South Vietnamese officials. Last week...

All Joey Archer had to be was a bit more aggressive. He was less so than ever in his second bout with Middleweight Champ Emile Griffith and, predictably, lost to a man who would rather shop than fight

Many golfers think that overswinging automatically creates more power, that there is a direct ratio between the size of the swing and the power it generates. But this thinking is wrong. You get...

Late last month one of the most esteemed members of Italy's World Championship Blue Team, Benito Garozzo, disclosed that the team may not defend its title this spring because its boss, Carlo...

A good horse won Santa Anita's big race, but Buckpasser was back in the barn with an aching hoof, so it was just another $100,000 affair

Saul Silberman, owner of Tropical Park, has been battling with politicians, racing commissions and newspapermen all his life. Only the horses he bets on defeat him

MOTES AND BEAMS IN ALBANY

•Gene Shue, coach of the last-place Baltimore Bullets: "The way we're going, we could get Wilt Chamberlain in a trade and then find out that he's really two midgets Scotch-taped together."

BASKETBALL—NBA: Eastern runner-up BOSTON (39-12), on a nine-game winning streak, beat leader PHILADELPHIA (47-6) 118-106 to break the 76ers' own nine-game victory mark and cut their lead from 9½...

4—Phil Bath14—courtesy Jimmy Jacobs15—Shel Hershorn-Black Star16—Don Uhrbrock18—Stuart Smith19—Walter Iooss Jr., Art Shay20—Lee Balterman, Bruce Roberts-Rapho Guillumette21—Fred Kaplan27—Eric...

Mary Boeke, a senior at Hubbard (Iowa) High who has scored 799 points in 19 games, led her girls' basketball team—undefeated and ranked No. 1 in the state—to the Iowa River Valley Conference...

THE MIDWEST

CRYSTAL CLEARSirs:A couple of years ago, after pro-football experts Tex Maule and Edwin Shrake incorrectly tabbed the pro champions, I became contemptuous of their abilities. Let me say, however,...