THE NEW AMERICAN WAY

•Dwayne Roe, assistant basketball coach at Oral Roberts University, asked what he said when he realized the man helping him break up a fight in the ORU-Southwestern Louisiana game was evangelist...

Ugly little Cascade' infuriated ocean-racing purists on the Southern circuit with her strange, gawky rig and low handicap, but what smarted most was her smashing victory in the Miami-to-Nassau classic

As they open spring training under a mellow Sarasota sun Dick Allen is there, rich and ready. Bill Melton—The Back—is back in one piece, and fans on the South Side are asking: Is this The Year?

...and green stuff. Chris Evert gets her introduction to the money game and comes away with 10 grand reasons for being a pro

On the treadmill again go college basketball's best, as they seek the pleasure of meeting UCLA in the NCAA showdown. Curry Kirkpatrick assesses who will get furthest.

Last year Florida State was Cinderella, but now it is only the slipper. The reasons reveal how fragile are the components of an athletic team's success

"Call me Ishmael" wrote Herman Melville in one literature's famed opening lines. "Call me Smitty" parodies Philip Roth as he begins The Great American Novel, which will be published in May by...

"Why baseball for your new book The Great American Novel?" Philip Roth was asked last week.

Skiing at Gstaad, Teddy Kennedy and his close friend, Senator John Tunney of California, happened to arrive at the funicular railway up to the slopes in the midst of a horde. According to a report...

The style is so quiet at Kansas State and the coach's profile so low that the country only now is waking up to the team's loud success

MIDWEST

A crowd of 10,480 came to Idaho's Minidome to see America's first full-fledged pro meet and was witness to three world records, the world's goofiest relay and a world-record holder racing some...

If you're called Lee Davis you should make quite a name for yourself in the South, even if you're as black as the bore of one of General Grant's Napoleons. But, as Lee Davis admits, "I'm not even...

It isn't that Jim Crumley has an eye for trouble, although it may seem that way. But trouble certainly has a way of finding Crumley, who wrestles for Oregon State. Take that eye. It is Jim's only...

Danny Seemiller-brash and unorthodox-keeps banging away at the little white ball with no doubt that he is a future world champion

It used to be that she could do nothing right. Cooking, gardening, swimming or driving—she was prepared to foul up anything down to earth. But a sky-high proposition was something else

BASKETBALL—NBA: The moving teams in the East were the second-placers—one up, Atlanta one down, New York. The Hawks, cemented behind Baltimore in the Central Division, swept four in a row: Seattle,...

4—Herman Roth26, 27—Walter Iooss Jr.28, 29—John D. Hanlon30—Charles Trainor56—AP64, 67—Rich Clarkson68—Leviton-Atlanta70—Fred Kaplan-Black Star73—Wil Blanche76, 77—Leviton-Atlanta, Coles...

Baron Flenory, a 5'10" ninth grader at New Kensington (Pa.) Junior High, set a school single-game record when he scored 81 points in his team's 124-52 win over Deer Lakes. As a starter for New...

CENTER ATTRACTIONSSirs:Mark Mulvoy mentioned in his article (All Ablaze at Center, Feb. 26) that Flyer General Manager Keith Allen turned down five players for superstar Bobby Clarke. The fact is...