February 09, 1970 | Volume 32, Issue 6

Twenty-one years after he won the U.S. national championship (left), Pancho Gonzales is beating the pick of the pros and remains undefeated in the Tennis Champions, Inc. Classic. Last week in...

After rejecting three basketball teams, Chicago embraces the Bulls, thanks to new men in the front office and on the bench

Pittsburgh has never seen the likes of Terry Bradshaw (see cover), the big blond quarterback from Louisiana Polytechnic Institute who was the first to go in last week's pro football draft. But...

The high schooler for this and most other seasons is 6'11" Tom McMillen, the most sought-after basketball player since Alcindor and, says Peter Carry, one of the most elusive.

Few readers caught up in the wild ribaldry of Author Clive Gammon's account of a Welsh rugby team invading Paris (page 58) will pause to worry much about the rules of the game they were there to...

"A fast-moving featherweight with a marvelous jab who never gets his left out of your face, but he'd never knock anybody down," said Norman Mailer recently. Has Norman discovered a new fighter?...

That's the NCAA pro-bation bowl, and nobody has a cheerier lock on the title than Florida State's Hugh Durham

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Riding runaway horses and antique iceboats have a lot in common. Wayward the old boats may be, but there are those who love them

The Millrose Games people called it the Mel Sheppard 600, and when they sent out four guys in short pants and lined them up last Friday night at Madison Square Garden nobody would fault you if you...

BASKETBALL—NBA: San Diego is in sixth place in the West, but Elvin Hayes has taken over the league lead in rebounding with a 16.2 average, replacing San Francisco's injured Nate Thurmond. Los...

14—UPI15, 16—James Drake17—Lee Balterman18, 19—Arthur Shay32, 33—UPI, John G. Zimmerman-LIFE40—Jerry Cooke41—Neil Leifer42—Russ Halford, Martin Mills-Black Star50—Wil Blanche54—John D....

Hank Osborne, a ninth-grader at St. Johns Country Day School in Orange Park, Fla. who plays center forward on the soccer team, is the leading scorer, with 32 goals in 12 games this year, for a...

HARRIED HEIDISirs:I have just finished reading William Johnson's five-part article on television and sport (Dec. 22 et seq.). I think that most people will tell you that network television has...

DARKEST AFRICAArthur Ashe behaved with dignity and restraint when he applied for a visa to play tennis this spring in South Africa. South Africa's ruling politicians reacted with typical...

•Richard M. Nixon, President of the U.S., on the allegation that G. Harrold Carswell, his nominee for the Supreme Court, once belonged to a restricted golf club: "I can only say with regard to the...