Though little noticed elsewhere, Japan is holding the derby of all derbies, one that dwarfs the world's turf classics with its immense crowds and betting

Russia's Spassky played Alice to Bobby Fischer's Mad Hatter in Reykjavik last week as the American challenger threw new tantrums to get his way at the world chess championship

Better not. Most pro football coaches say you would only get a lot of Os and Vs that would be worth few if any $s. Nonetheless, ex-Ram Quarterback Karl Sweetan tried to sell one for $2,500, and a...

The pitching wonders he works did not come swiftly or naturally to Seaver; in fact, the modesty of his skill was the making of the man

On the road with Messrs. Blue, Hunter, Holtzman, Jackson, Epstein et al. Ron Fimrite describes how it is to travel with the Oakland A's, the fastest-moving team in baseball.

His detractors have said he is a traitor, a liar, a windbag, a hypocrite and a fool, but Avery Brundage sleeps the sleep of the just

It may have other difficulties in these quickening times, but baseball still puts on the best All-Star Game in town. The big names are there, and they perform as if a pennant were at stake, with...

Back at work, the Cubs' vagrant first baseman is pepping things up

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On a Saturday both eventful and bizarre, trotting's millionairesses go International and a pacing Bird strides into their exclusive club

Coaches tried to avoid steelworker Hank Slider until they saw him swish baskets. Now they consider him a savior, one who spends his summers teaching their young shooters how to stay hot during the...

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•Muhammad Ali, on Floyd Patterson, whom he fights Aug. 28, with tongue in check: "He's such a nice guy I even let him call me Mr. Clay."

Belgium's incomparable Eddy is sovereign of his sport, a pleaser of kings and a man who has made Merckxists of the masses throughout the world

BOXING—FLOYD PATTERSON, 37, prepping for his Aug. 28 match against Muhammad Ali, scored a TKO over Pedro Agosto at the end of round six of their scheduled 10-rounder at the Singer Bowl in Queens, N.Y.

12, 13—T. Tanuma16—AP18—UPI, Eric Schweikardt22, 23—Herb Scharfman30—Neil Leifer33—Neil Leifer, Paul Thompson from European39—Jon Whitbourne41—Paris Match42—Sheedy & Long49—John...

Bob Byman, 17, the youngest competitor at the recent U.S. Open and a senior-to-be at Fairview High in Boulder, Colo., totaled 285 for four rounds over the par-71 Denver Country Club golf course to...

WHO TO AND WHENSirs:Congratulations on a fascinating article (It's Not Only How To, It's Who To and When, July 10) on the step-by-step procedure of putting a football into the air. It gave us fans...

It was Grand indeed, but the Slam was gone as Lee Trevino chipped in, blasted in and laughed all the way in to win a wondrous British Open