Barry Stebbins, a sophomore, paced Mt. St. Mary's College of Emmitsburg, Md. to the Mason-Dixon indoor track title in Lexington, Va. He won the 60-yard dash (6.4), 60-yard hurdles (7.5) and long...

28, 29—Eric Schweikardt30, 31—Heinz Kluetmeier32—John Iacono33—Dan Baliotti73—Suresh Shivdasani76, 79—John D. Hanlon103—Bob Braley (1)

PRO BASKETBALL—NBA: Ironically enough, the most interesting race at the end of the season occurred between two sub-.500 clubs, New York and Cleveland, fighting for one wild-card spot in the...

RAVES FOR A BRAVESir:After living in Buffalo all my life, I am convinced of the city's devotion to professional sports. And I'm very grateful that you have seen fit to give Randy Smith the...

The atmosphere at James L. Cox' English Grouse Walk is very English indeed, which makes its location on the eastern edge of the Pennsylvania Dutch country all the more incongruous. Tucked away...

DOUBLETAKE

•Brian Oldfield, shotputter, on his former job as instructor at a juvenile correctional institution: "It was the only place I could teach and not have to go to PTA meetings."

Back to holding hands with Jimmy Connors, Chris Evert used both fists to bowl over Martina Navratilova in the Virginia Slims final and win the largest purse—$40,000—in the history of women's tennis

Harvard was smooth and unabashedly rude when it won the 1974 national championship. In its first outing, this year's eight demolished a whole flotilla of powerful rivals while behaving impeccably...

The gymnasts who followed familiar Japanese technique and philosophy came away as winners at the NCAA championships

New faces dot the playoffs, but when it's all over toward the end of May, you'll probably recognize Boston or Washington

If any team can stop the Flyers, it will first have to outthink Bobby Clarke and then try to outshoot Bernie Parent in goal

In which Durocher becomes the manager of the Dodgers, battles for and with his explosive boss and wins a famous pennant race

Joining the Giants, the Dodgers' archenemies, Durocher is spellbound by Bobby Thomson's home run, delighted by Willie Mays and charmed by Dusty Rhodes.

Marching on Augusta is a regiment of top golfers led by Jack Nicklaus, who will be out gunning for his fifth Masters title. Can Gary Player, Johnny Miller or anyone else stop him? Dan Jenkins will...

...who only stand and wait while their husbands struggle to make pars and birdies. It can be a frustrating experience, walking outside the ropes that line the fairways, unable to contribute more...

Some of them dream of it, some of them dread it, but a golfer's wife would not miss the Masters for anything short of childbirth. The trip to Augusta is the social Everest of the tour, a week when...

To illustrate the first and second installments of Leo Durocher's four-part series of reminiscences, which continue this week on page 38, Art Director Dick Gangel called upon a man whose affection...

The author recalls boyhood wrestling, its feel, its smell and, most of all, a frozen bridge and some other cold cuts involving a kid named Thuringer

Slam-bang play in the nationals belies the sport's gentle image

After a year of slaloming for pay, Hank Kashiwa (foreground) became the champion in a sport where they fine you for missing the parties

Few of the competitors at the Texas Relays were as fast as Larry Shipp, but most had a ball anyway, particularly the OTIS 400-yard relay team

Vasili Alexeyev is the greatest weight lifter. And the finest gardener, cook, carpenter, singer and checker player perhaps in all of Soviet Russia, as the author learned on a rare and privileged...

It's another hot day, one of many through spring and summer—a day that sears the body in football armor. Hip pads are heavy with sweat. Rib pads bite into bone. Shoulder pads that fit so well in...

The only people in Los Angeles unprepared for the arrival of the Dodgers in 1958 were the 1958 Dodgers. They bumbled through the season like miscast actors, which, I thought, was not the way a...