BETTER FOR THE BETTER HALF

•Bruce Featherston, 6'11" Southwest Texas State senior and bottom draft choice of the Milwaukee Bucks, asked if he thought he could move right in at center: "I think the one they've got may last...

A bespectacled former Colorado football player won the U.S. Open at Winged Foot, but in the secondary battle between 150 leading golfers and the rigorous demands of the course, it was just no contest

Remembering last year, Cincinnati is out to get L.A. again, and with a fierce front four thirsting for it, the getting is plausible

A raid on wild birds' nests in Wales gave a Cockney investigator the clue that led to an international chase and certain surprising discoveries in the office of an honored science professor at Yale

Where they ain't is where Minnesota's Rod Carew is hitting 'em, and while .400 may have gone with Ted Williams, Carew et al. are keeping the science alive. By Ron Fimrite.

As hundreds of alien athletes compete for U.S. colleges with marked success, some of the natives grow restless

With a safer new circuit to be built in Sicily there will always be a Targa Florio, but last year's run ended an era of special daring and danger when cars tore through town and country in the...

You've seen it happen a thousand times—a friendly couple comes over for a few rubbers of bridge and ends up playing and behaving like idiots. What happens to husbands and wives at the table?

As part of an Appreciation Evening for Bill Yeoman, who has made the University of Houston a power in college football, grateful fans presented the coach with one of the World's most decadent golf...

Namely Omaha and the College World Series, where a team that never had made it past the tournament's preliminaries fought to the final out

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Rising above all the bedlam of the AAU Nationals, he overwhelmed his division, inspiring recollections of another day and another Ray

The favorites dueled mightily, and an outsider took advantage of it

The appointment this week of Ray Cave as executive editor and Gilbert Rogin as assistant managing editor (see masthead, left) is a signal tribute to the considerable abilities of these two men,...

King Lear hadn't met Bjorn Borg, but his remark could hardly have been more descriptive of this 18-year-old Swedish phenomenon. Beyond his years in poise, manner and ability, Borg is already a...

COLLEGE BASEBALL—SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA defeated Miami of Florida 7-3 and won an unprecedented fifth straight national championship (page 54).

19—James Drake20, 21—James Drake (3), John D. Hanlon (2)22-24—John Iacono25—John Iacono, Tony Triolo26, 27—Graham Finlayson28—Roy DeCarava, John Iacono34—James Drake53—George H. Cook-Baltimore...

Sheila Ingram, 17, of Coolidge High School in Washington, set a scholastic mark for girls in the 440-yard run, clocking a 55.8. Sheila also competes in the 100 (11.0), the 220 (24.5), the 880...

GROPING FOR ANSWERSSir:Richard W. Johnston's deeply moving A Man Who Hardly Left a Mark (June 10) was a classic study in reporting a tragic, seemingly senseless death in an objective yet...

Few themes recur so insistently in American literature as that of boyhood: it has been a preoccupation of writers as diverse as Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, Mark Twain, Frank Conroy and...

These two friends were arguing in the locker room, one thing led to another as it often does, and pretty soon they had this wild bet...