BASKETBALL—NBA: Sam Jones scored a career-high 51 points as Boston defeated New York 118-109 to take the Eastern Division semifinals three games to one. In the finals, however, PHILADELPHIA gained...

Charles Gabl, a fourth-grader from Bellingham, Wash., who has been on skis since he was 11 months old—his father is Franz Gabl, Austria's 1948 Olympic silver medalist—became the youngest...

31—Thomas V. Miller Jr.-Louisville Courier-Journal33—Howard Bingham34—Eric Schweikardt37—Bob Peterson38-40—Gerry Cranham45—David Moore-Black Star46—T. Tanuma47—David Moore-Black Star48—T....

NO CHANCESirs:May I compliment Frank Deford on his articles on the NCAA basketball tournament. Not only did he point out the strong and weak teams in the tournament, but he also pointed out that...

Impatient wives and landlubbers in general have a way of referring to all yachts, great and small, as "expensive toys." In their mouths the term is one of deep opprobrium. But there is one yacht...

KNOCKING THE STUFFING OUT

•A. J. Foyt, on suggestions that stock-cars be slowed down by mechanical alterations: "Race cars are built to run fast. If you want to slow up, all you have to do is lift that foot."

In a fateful week it suddenly seemed possible that Muhammad Ali would prefer jail to Army duty. Ironically, this came when Manager Herbert Muhammad was working to make Ali less objectionable

Back home in Chandler, Ariz. after his seventh-round knockout in New York, Challenger Folley assessed what had happened to him in their bout—and became a true believer

Humiliated by Ferrari at Daytona, Ford struck back at Sebring with an ultralight new racer. Ferraris were absent, but, surviving a rough Chaparral challenge, Ford looked ready to tackle them at Le...

Hank Bauer's pitchers are hurting and his doctor has told him to quit smoking, a parlay that should have left the Baltimore manager snapping at people. But things really don't look bad at all for...

Are soccer-style field-goal kickers really better? To find out, Sports Illustrated carried a pair of U.S. pros almost to Newcastle to test two of the best in all Britain

In 1934, the year that the first Masters was played, golf was an Anglo-American game, and rare was the professional who competed outside of his own country. But the air age has taken the sport to...

Baseball 1967 gets under way and with it our annual appraisal of the 20 big-league clubs. Plus color photographs of top players who have switched teams since last year

Just a little over 10 years ago a letter from a proud father in South Africa arrived at the Augusta National Golf Club. It was addressed to Clifford Roberts, who, along with Robert T. Jones Jr.,...

Four times in seven tries—a superlative record—Hartack has won racing's premier event, the Kentucky Derby. Analyzing those triumphs, he offers his own version of the controversial victory by a...

The phone rang early one morning at Sam Baker's house in Philadelphia. Baker, punter and field-goal kicker for the Eagles, listened for a moment, said, "Oh sure, Bud, anytime," and hung up. "It's...

"When I am through skiing," said World Champion Skier Jean-Claude Killy, a spectator at the Sebring road race last weekend, "I should like to race cars. First I would go to Carroll Shelby's...

It is a fine thing, of course, for various sports and arts to set up Halls of Fame for their heroes. However, I think a lot of us are just as interested in antiheroes, those who could only be...

Joe Harris burst upon New York—and welterweight king Curtis Cokes—like an infant Muhammad Ali. He danced and feinted and landed just often enough to win a fight his opponent was having little part of

The U.S. had a goalie to remember, Canada had a goal to forget and Russia was the winner once again

Continuing to race consistently, Sunshine Calvert's colt allowed himself to be rated, then drew away (right) in Florida's Derby

The biggest payday on the pro tour—Akron's $100,000 Tournament of Champions—turned into a grab bag for the new crop of wonder kids

For CBS, the 1966 Masters began with instant crisis when Jim Jensen, at right, misidentified himself and a V.P. reached for a phone

Every horse was a dark horse when the British racing season was kicked off at Lincolnshire