BASKETBALL—NBA: BALTIMORE (14-5) fell out of first in the East, then nosed back, bating Detroit 128-127 on Gus Johnson's layup at the buzzer. Boston (13-5), which won its fifth Straight before...

Bruce Swanson, senior quarterback for Chicago's North Park College, threw 10 TD passes in a 104-32 win over North Central, a College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin record. In 1967 he set a...

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GHOSTS OF SEASONS PASTSirs:I have just read Dan Jenkins' tongue-in-cheek account of O. J. Simpson's fantastic career to date (The Pros Face a Dazzling Dilemma, Nov. 18). The comparisons of O.J....

FULL IN THE FALL

•Wayne Valley, co-owner of the Oakland Raiders, after 41-year-old George Blanda and 37-year-old Cotton Davidson had quarterbacked the Raiders to a 43-7 win over Denver: "We're the only club in pro...

Ohio State's Woody Hayes could sit back and sniff the flowers as his gang of teen-age fakers hid the ball from Michigan, won the Big Ten championship and headed for the No. 1 bouquet in Pasadena

Louisville's Freedom Hall, "home of the best in college basketball" and just a few furlongs from Churchill Downs, is the current locale of horse racing's biggest controversy: the running of the...

That was the atmosphere as the Boston Bruins and New York Rangers paused in their hot pursuit of league-leading Montreal to belabor one another while relighting the fires of their traditional...

Off to a royal start, Big O and the surprising C's are up therewith pro basketball's best. Frank Deford looks in on Robertson and that odd case, the shaky Cincinnati franchise.

The Rams beat the Giants on a last-ditch field goal, but should they face the Colts for the Coastal Division title they'll need more

While the two rival pro leagues wait in the wings, pens poised over checkbooks, giant Lew Alcindor—along with the usual few dozen other fine athletes—is back for one more season at UCLA. This...

Journalist-experts are not born. Hugh Whall, our sailing writer-expert, got that way by sailing, starting on his own at 9 in a dinghy on the Zwartkops River in his native South Africa. In later...

Six teams from the South, five from the Midwest and a scattering from other sections will be among the leading contenders for No. 1 national ranking. The list, compiled by Joe Jares, Curry...

The West

Small-college basketball is an often-neglected, much-maligned activity that is as scattered in location as it is varied in purpose. There are factories and academies, big schools and small,...

"Ask a boy what his strength is," says USC Coach Bob Boyd, "and he'll tell you he has a 17-foot jump shot that never misses. Or a great hook shot. Or he is a tremendous rebounder. I have yet to...

With tickets selling for $125 apiece, Harvard and Yale undefeated and the Ivy League in a dither, there seemed no way for the contest to match the buildup. Then Harvard sent in Frank Champi

SOUTHWEST

THE BACK: Kansas Safetyman Dave Morgan made three key plays in 21-19 win over Missouri, running back an intercepted pass for a score, setting up a TD with a fumble recovery and intercepting a pass...

Dying salmon may help science in its study of man's longevity

Sweet is a word often used in connection with sailboats, but the yacht with the complex winch arrangement shown here is just plain mean. She is Huey Long's new ketch 'Ondine,' the toughest race...

An old statistics nut examines the IBM figures for this year's pro tour and discovers that the game has changed since Tony Manero's day

A lingering fog, a frustrating fishing festival and a little redheaded woman were enough to drive strong men to drink—especially the occupants of Rooms 5 and 6

Firearm collectors, and particularly those who specialize in hoarding revolvers, will hail the appearance in the United States of two books of British origin which fill in great gaps in the...

Racetrack fans of the state of Maryland were shocked and surprised some weeks ago when a young lady named Kathy Kusner was granted a license as a jockey. But such a request would not have caused a...