PRO BASKETBALL—NBA: Los Angeles' Pat Riley scored a career-high 38 points in a 127-122 victory over New Orleans. He was not even supposed to play because of his bad knee. Coach Bill Sharman said...

26, 27—Heinz Kluetmeier28, 29—Steve Wilkings38, 39—Al Satterwhite-Camera 540—James Drake66—Heinz Kluetmeier69—Tony Tomsic75—Neil Leifer79—John Iacono85—Tony Triolo94—Lane Stewart109—Sue Maynard...

Mike Hunter, of Vintage High in Napa, Calif., set an American Legion baseball tournament record by striking out 22 batters in pitching a no-hitter against the Utah state champions. In 86 innings...

WRIGHT OR WRONG?Sir:Steve Wright's article about his two seasons with the Giants (Wright Was All Wrong, Right? Nov. 25) was a true-to-life example of the behind-the-scenes operations described in...

First, there was the look of the sky, dark and surly by daylight, then an angry orange toward evening. By dawn, as sure as your feet would hit the icy bedroom floor, it would be there: snow. It...

THE COMMISSIONER HOMERS

•Chuck Foreman, Viking running back, on his reserved behavior after scoring: "I'm cool on the outside, but inside it's like a thousand little kids jumping up and down on Christmas morning."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was back with a sound hand and a new look, and the Bucks were clearly relieved. But the big man answers only the largest of their problems

In Boston, Dave Cowens made his return last week, too—somewhat ahead of schedule and with the Celtics in less desperate shape than the Bucks. Minus their center since he broke a bone in his right...

On the brink of elimination from the playoffs, Dallas turned to its rookie quarterback, a dead shot with his six-guns, too

Hawaiians take pride in the huge waves at Waimea, and it was fitting that they appeared for the world championships

It was caused by USC, it lasted almost 17 minutes and its victim was Notre Dame. When it was over, Anthony Davis and his teammates were on solid ground while the Irish lay buried under a mountain...

In her new role as a coach and crusader for all amateur athletes, Micki exudes the same unsinkable spirit that carried her to an Olympic gold medal off the springboard in Munich

Wiffle, the wits called the World Football League, but waffle is what the WFL did as it struggled toward the World Bowl through a season of disasters. Joe Marshall reports.

Memories swirl through the city and the old stadium where the Bears are fighting a holding action for their loyal fans, glorying in the heroic George Halas past and putting hope in a future that...

If you are enough of a college football fan to have watched all the games ABC-TV ran through your living room last week, you are now probably dizzy, comatose or badly in need of medication to wash...

Against Indiana, Tennessee Tech's Inman expresses how it feels to be

MIDWEST

Losing the Alabama-Auburn game is bad enough, but the excruciating part is that you have to endure all those insults for a whole year

Don Brown wanted his dinners to be legal, so he started a campaign to propagate the sea-run trout

Five times a champion and still formidable at 36, Emile Griffith slips a rung against a young foe

At 5:45 each Tuesday evening a messenger leaves a printing plant on Rhode Island Avenue N.E. in Washington, D.C. Approximately 15 minutes later he arrives at the East Wing entrance to 1600...

Kenya's John Ngeno was ready for the hard pockmarked course that hurt other runners

Nicaraguans believe they were thrown a changeup in St. Petersburg by the U.S. organizers and thereby deprived of the world amateur title

The author of Australia's rollicking ballad sold the rights to it for, well, a song, choosing instead to seek renown and riches on the Sydney turf. But he never found a wonder horse to match...

It may have escaped your attention (it certainly had mine), but birds have become a hot item. That, at least, is one conclusion to be drawn from the sudden outpouring of sumptuous bird books. To...

To the young men who inaugurated paper chasing in America, the sport must have seemed as delightfully wicked as streaking would to their counterparts a century later. Hot-eyed runners pounding...