For years bodybuilding has been the victim of calumny and sniggering rumor, an embarrassment to its practitioners and few devotees. But today's master builder, Arnold Schwarzenegger (left), is...

BOWLING—LORRIE KOCH of Carpentersville, Ill. ousted two other finalists before defeating Betty Morris of Stockton, Calif. 205-179 to take the $10,000 first prize in the $75,000 Brunswick Women's...

7—Jerry Cooke23—Neil Leifer24, 25—Wil Blanche, Neil Leifer (2)26, 27—Fred Kaplan-Black Star (2), Neil Leifer, Sheedy & Long (2)28—Walter Iooss Jr., John Iacono29—Herb Scharfman30, 31—Heinz...

Curt Kutschenreuter, 6, of Loveland, Ohio, was the youngest of 1,000 cyclists to complete 50 miles in less than six hours in the Hancock Hillless Half Hundred bicycle race. Curt, who has been...

DOUBLE WHAMMYSir:Wham! Bam! The famed SI whammy strikes again. It never ceases to amaze me. How can you run feature articles on teams like Notre Dame (Right Man in the Right Place, Sept. 30) and...

SPORT IS FOR SPORTSMEN

•Dave White, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute football coach, after playing Coast Guard during a thunder and lightning storm: "I moved back when the chains came near me and tried to stay away from...

Staid, old New England has tossed aside its patrician cool, reacting with collegiate fervor to the hyped-up Patriots, who last Sunday afternoon crushed the Baltimore Colts for their fourth...

Heat was an element much in evidence as major league baseball set about determining its pennant winners. Entering the playoffs, the two hot teams were the Orioles and Pirates, but the weekend...

In his first postgraduate seminar with Abdul-Jabbar, rookie Bill Walton learned a few things but made points of his own

A friend and occasional critic looks over the layout Nicklaus designed near his hometown, Columbus, and concludes it has everything but a name. The determination that made Jack a champion...

I have rarely met a person who loves golf who is not interested in golf-course design. Often this interest is subconscious, but given a chance it will surely surface. Make a comment about a hole...

Frank Robinson tells his own story of what it means to be named the first black manager in the majors and describes the challenges he faces and how he plans to meet them.

The Coast Guard knows—if filmgoers do not—that 'The Boatniks' was far from fiction. Saving the foolish small-craft sports from becoming nautical suicides is a tedious, dangerous task

The Los Angeles Rams were playing the 49ers, and Quarterback John Hadl attempted a sneak from the one-yard line. He was immediately engulfed and, so the story goes, 49er players began shouting at...

The Tigers could starve an opponent to death. Their sturdy defense has allowed only 10 points and has shut out Tennessee and Miami

We have never felt that it was necessary for our writers to match muscles with their subjects, but a few months ago when we assigned Dick Johnston to do a story on bodybuilders, one of his friends...

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OFFENSE: Kansas Quarterback Scott McMichael, a sophomore, completed 12 of 14 passes for 178 yards and two second-half touchdowns is the Jayhawks rallied from a 10-7 deficit at intermission and...

The heavies are fine, but there is more action one division down

One of the high moments of tournament bridge occurs when precise defense is pitted against a declarer's exquisite play, as when the winners of the four big national team championships—the...

Playing it cool wins the Grand Prix title for Emerson Fittipaldi

Most conspicuously to Mr. Aaron, in a season rich in many ways

The scene in Ontario was reminiscent of the way it used to be in Michigan, an enormous flow of wilderness, full of rivers, lakes, forests and fish

The annual autumnal crunch of sports books has begun and, before it overwhelms us, here are some brief notes on four-books that, for one reason or another, readers may want to know about:

Cycling is a quiet sport but in 1892 a young bookkeeper went too far