AN EXTRAORDINARY MAN

•Mike Johnson, 5'9", 165-pound Western Michigan defensive back, asked how he was physically able to make 56 tackles last season: "I'm so small, blockers just run right by me and look for someone...

George Allen gives his Redskins ice cream and whatever else their hearts desire, but it is easy to be happy if you just give Larry Brown the ball

A woeful season's start for Derek Sanderson & Co., rich but unready, illuminates the fitness of things

With Long Island and Hatteras the battlegrounds, a war between anglers and haul seiners is fought each season as striped bass migrate along the Atlantic coast. Now, peace may be in the offing

The Conquistadors are owned by an orthodontist who has braced himself to overcome the disaffection of San Diego's fans

A running commentary by Tex Maule touches on Floyd Little of the Denver Broncos and other ballcarriers who are putting the feet back into professional football.

Any tourist can go racing at the Moscow Hippodrome. It can be a pleasant afternoon with small crowds, 17 races on a program and all the cognac and caviar one could want. What takes more doing is...

The treasure isn't really all that terrific—it's the joy of the hunt that brings all those pilots buzzing around the Bahamas on an annual madcap air and see search

Actor Richard Boone, a sparring partner of pro boxers for 11 years and a friend of Archie Moore, tells this story. It seems that Archie, driving on a Los Angeles street, did something to anger...

There is nothing fancy about Michigan football, as Minnesota found out last week, just an iron-curtain defense and run, run, run

MIDWEST

THE LINEMAN: Senior Middle Guard Don Rives of Texas Tech personally shut down SMU's strong running game with 13 unassisted tackles, five of them behind the line of scrimmage for 48 yards in...

...in her very next start, in fact, La Prevoyante can equal a mark that has stood for 65 years

It may look like a tourist stunt, but the annual 41-mile run across Hawaii's Molokai Channel is one of the toughest events in all sport

Al Capone and his Chicago killers may have had deadly aim elsewhere, but out on a golf course they were hit and miss. Some recollections of those sporting days with Scarface

PRO BASKETBALL—NBA: The season's first "crucial" game had nothing to do with winning teams competing for playoff berths: Philadelphia and Cleveland were playing to determine the NBA's last winless...

24—Arthur Weeast25—Wil Blanche36, 41—Whitney Tower51—Montreal Star-Canada Wide, Central Press-Pictorial Parade52—Roy DeCarava64—C. Wood72, 73—UPI (4), AP (3), Brown Brothers74, 75—UPI89—Jim...

Doug Atkins, a 10-year-old fifth-grader from Huntington, W. Va., received his black belt in the art of Korean karate to become the youngest holder of the rank in the United States. His brother...

BOX SCORESirs:Regarding Ron Fimrite's article A Big Beginning for the Little League (Oct. 23), I don't know how or why the belief that the National League is superior to the American League came...

The tennis centennial and the tennis boom are upon us, and since any centennial or boom is inevitably accompanied by a litter of books, we can expect to be inundated with court literature in the...

Round and round they flew, and when Al and Fred finally came to earth they had broken all existing endurance records and caused more cricks than a spring thundershower