NO HELLO FOR DOLLY

•Mike Ditka, Chicago Bear tight end, on Coach George Halas: "He tosses nickels around like manhole covers."

A vindictive champion punished Ernie Terrell through 15 brutal rounds. He convinced remaining doubters that he is king of the heavies

Ford was triumphant in 1966, but as the sports car racing season opened at Daytona, Ferrari of Italy struck back with a sweeping victory despite possession of fewer cars and horses than the Americans

One enthusiast calls it a capital cure for a hangover. Shivering landsmen regard it as medicine only a masochist could swallow. But for the addicted few who at this time of year like to wrap...

High Riser Bob Seagren has pole-vaulted farther into the indoor sky than anyone else. The personable Californian, John Underwood writes, aspires to yet greater heights.

Rick Barry has captivated the city, as much with his youthful good looks and exuberance as with his brilliance on the basketball court

The author obeys the classic rule of golf instruction, but hardly in the classic fashion, as he hits one shot into a swimming pool and bounces another off Bob Hope's cart

Although the necessity of fitting the vast variety and sheer quantity of U.S. sport into a finite number of pages often leaves our editors gnashing at their pencils, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED has never...

The world of the show dog is large and complicated, but Percy Roberts knows every corner of it. Next week the finalists will pose and strut for him as he judges the best-in-show for the...

They will not throw out the first ball in Baltimore's Memorial Stadium for eight weeks, but the scoreboard already shows a strikeout against the home team. Jerry Hoffberger, who owns both the...

Conceived as a public relations package and born amid confusion, the American Basketball Association has solid financial backing

The world's best shotputter, Randy Matson, is a big man to challenge, but an ex-runt from the University of Oregon is making him strain

If a shooting trip to County Caithness can be taken as a criterion, Winchester-Western has a good thing going in its hunting-tour plan, and sportsmen who have been burned by unreliable outfitters...

Basketball in Italy is something else again—like Jupiter, says Doug Moe, one of the U.S. stars playing there. Referees all but root for the home team, and who can blame them, since fans are so...

BASKETBALL—Eastern Leader PHILADELPHIA (49-8) dropped successive games to the Lakers and the Warriors on the West Coast but the 76ers finally halted their slight skid—four losses in five games—by...

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Tom Poor, 23, a mathematics teacher at Episcopal Academy in Merion, Pa., won every game against four opponents to take the singles championship at the 25th annual Apawamis Club squash racquets...

THE EAST 1. PRINCETON (17-1) 2. BOSTON COLLEGE (12-1) 3. PROVIDENCE (13-3)

HAPPY BLUES Sirs: Your January 30 article on the new New York Rangers (Francis Forges an Up Team in a Down Town) was undoubtedly the finest ever written about any team. It portrayed the true...

If you build a better walking stick, people will stroll along a pathway to your door

It may be a 'spare end' of Maine, but Grand Lake Stream has bounty to spare

Balloonist Tracy Barnes called it the closest thing to bird's flight, but his bird kept falling to earth