(dated Jan. 6, 1969):

Minnesota clinched the Central Division and now the playoffs begin—Vikings vs. Colts, Cowboys vs. Browns. The winners, probably the Colts and Cowboys, then meet to decide the NFL championship

The idea was to get Americans interested in the Italian Riviera. Incidentally, Benvenuti was defending his title

Two guys had this idea—stage a basketball tournament in San Francisco. They very nearly failed, but Santa Clara came to the rescue by brutalizing highly esteemed Houston and remaining undefeated

The nation's two top teams, Ohio State and Southern California, get a rare opportunity to settle which is the best as an entire season of undefeated play comes down to their face-to-face clash in...

Most people think that a football game, even one held on New Year's Day, should be, well, a football game. Oh, go ahead: hold a parade, puff up some balloons, vote for a bowl queen—but then let's...

KANSAS vs. PENN STATEThe Orange

The year was crammed with excellence. In one two-week period Arthur Ashe won the U.S. Nationals at Brookline, went to Forest Hills and became the first amateur to win a major international open...

Bob Beamon knew that his jump was superb, probably a new record. But 29 feet? He fell to his knees. Here is an anatomy of that famous leap

No single play does more to decide the fate of any hand than the opening lead. No single skill counts more in deciding whether you are a winning player. And the science of leading has progressed a...

If Pro Golfers Mason Rudolph (below) and Barbara Romack do not care to talk golf the next time they meet they can chat about unscheduled trips to Cuba. Rudolph was aboard a TWA jet that was...

For 29 years President Coolidge School for Boys had been humiliated by its archrival, and for as long as he could remember Pat O'Sullivan Pinkerton had been humiliated, too. A story for children....

William Pène du Bois has been a noted writer and illustrator of children's books for 30 years. This story and its drawings will be published as a book by Harper & Row in 1969 under the title...

So-called "golf tours" for amateurs are, for the most part, little more than come-ons (or, more accurately, come-on-downs) designed by travel agents to lure duffers to one or another resort hotel....

BASKETBALL—NBA: BALTIMORE (23-7) won its three games and knocked Boston from first in the East. Ed Manning's four straight jumpers in the fourth quarter were key baskets as the Bullets beat the...

13—Neil Leifer14—Tony Tomsic15—Harry Cabluck16—Sheedy & Long18—UPI19—AP20, 21—Sheedy & Long22, 23—Walter Iooss Jr.33—Bill Mohan from Leviton-Atlanta34—Lee Balterman35—Don Uhrbrock40—Walter...

Norval Frederick (Jesse) James, 73, a retired Dallas printer, achieved that golfing rarity, a score lower than his age. He shot a six-birdie 72 at the par-71 Stevens Park course. James has been...

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INTERIOR MOTIVES

•Bill Callahan, sports information director at the University of Missouri: "I used to have the worst time remembering names. Then I took that Sam Carnegie course and I've been all right ever since."

SERIOUS CINCINNATISirs:I have just finished reading your article (Serious Contenders for a Funny City, Dec. 9) about the Cincinnati Royals and Cincinnati. I am a Cincinnati resident presently...

Certainly the best time to read a book about baseball is right now—in the quiet of early winter, with a fire in the fireplace and the ballplayers off managing their restaurants, their organ combos...

Football was a flop at the Tournament of Roses in 1902, so to save the day they got a livelier sport: Roman chariot racing