March 24, 1969 | Volume 30, Issue 12

•Rick Forzano, Navy's new football coach, on buying a home in Annapolis: "When the real estate man heard I was the new Navy coach, he was enthusiastic. He told me the resale value of the house I...

North Carolina, Purdue and Drake survived stirring quarterfinal rounds for the dubious privilege of trying to prevent an aroused Lew Alcindor and UCLA from winning their third straight NCAA title

When baseball decided to lower the pitching mound to help the hitters, the change seemed minor, but there were signs last week that it may have a major effect on the pastime

Although hobbled by a bad knee and blisters, Jim Ryun quenched his own doubts and helped win the NCAA indoor track meet for Kansas when he edged Villanova's Marty Liquori in the mile at Detroit

The Summit in the person of Lew Alcindor comes to Louisville. Joe Jares reports on college basketball's last try to contain the big man and the Uclans in the NCAA's final round.

The wicked little McKenzie River in western Oregon does not just kick up white water. It rushes in a series of boat-shattering, man-dunking drops from Cooks Rapids to Brown's Rock, from Bear Creek...

It seems the Knicks' superswinger Dick Barnett harbors a passion for chess, picking up games wherever he can. He has just accepted a challenge from a man in Cleveland, whom he will play by mail...

When Dan Gable, a nearsighted 137-pound Iowa State junior, bounds on the mat, the crowds chant 'Kill!'—and Dan nearly always obliges

Denver again won the NCAA championship as an extraordinary number of big-league scouts turned out to see the once-despised collegiate game

It's 13° and the beach at Rye, N.H. is mounded high with snow (above), but the surf is up and the winter surfers—a hardy and circumspect breed, which flourishes along the New England coast—are...

Once we get them off on assignment, they're fine. Splendid, in fact—two fast-moving photographers who have always turned out crisp action, including nine SPORTS ILLUSTRATED covers in the past 12...

As the number of lady jockeys proliferates—winning jockeys, at that—a group of determined women takes over a major show ring

That's the way one Wesleyan player aptly described his team when it came through in the finals after barely surviving the early rounds

BASKETBALL—NBA: BALTIMORE (55-22) has a magic number of two, PHILADELPHIA (53-26) can't finish worse than third, and neither can NEW YORK (51-27). Incidentally, if they win the division, the...

18—Heinz Kluetmeier 19—John D. Hanlon 21—Sheedy & Long 22—Bob Moreland 25—Rich Clarkson 26—Roy DeCarava, Curt Gunther 44—Roy DeCarava, AP 53, 55—Heinz Kluetmeier 56, 57—Carl Iwasaki 58,...

Mona Daily, a Miami mother of three who has raced powerboats for 18 years, won the Biscayne Bay Regatta at Miami in an inboard F service runabout. Mrs. Daily, whose husband, a Pan Am pilot, calls...

HOT FOOTSirs:Please permit me to compliment SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and John Underwood on the story of Adidas and Puma (No Goody Two-Shoes, March 10). It was superbly researched, well-documented and...