He had promised to go for the mile record, and New Zealand's John Walker delivered, smashing the old mark by 1.6 seconds

Optimism permeates the summer air of Green Bay. Fans are sporting buttons and bumper stickers celebrating the return of Bart Starr, Mr. Nice Guy, and hoping for a renaissance of Lombardi's winning...

Now that the Park Service has opened up vast and dramatic spaces rimming the city, San Franciscans can take flight and have a wingding time in a 34,000-acre paradise

Old King Kong would have had his paws full with Shotputter Brian Oldfield, who's just crazy enough to have taken him on. Curry Kirkpatrick profiles the giant whose revolutionary style has made him...

Few radio sports broadcasts are as popular as those of Red Sox games when Boston is in a pennant fight. More than 50 stations carry the team to homes, cars, bars and beaches in Connecticut, Maine,...

Inspirited by a new manager who has scourged defeatism—and moved Big Bopper John Mayberry back to bopping—K.C. is challenging Oakland

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MILES TO GO

•Arthur Ashe, on Jimmy Connors: "That kid would make a heck of a Davis Cup prospect."

At a special convention called to cut athletic expenses, the NCAA chopped away at the minor sports but left Big Football intact. Its only important act may have been a resolution to study...

Prepping for the Hambletonian, Stanley Dancer and Bonefish won the Empire at Syracuse to provide his new granddaughter with a dowry

Hearts of oak and doughty boats sailed away with the Admiral's Cup

Ornery as a sci-fi creature, a fly is biting its way through Maine

The green pastures of tennis would appear to provide rich grazing for all, but Bill Riordan and Donald Dell continue to have trouble settling the boundary disputes

BOATING—BRITAIN was declared winner of the Admiral's Cup yachting series; West Germany was second and the U.S. third (page 44).

9—James Drake, Tony Triolo, Heinz Kluetmeier10, 11—James Drake, Tony Triolo, Heinz Kluetmeier12, 13—Tony Triolo, Heinz Kluetmeier14, 15—Sven-Erik Johansson-Göteborg Bildservice19—Heinz...

Patricia Ramos, 14, of Knoxville, the Tennessee women's champion in 1974, won the women's division at the South Carolina State Trapshoot in Spartanburg with a 96 x 100 score and was second...

CROWD REACTIONSSir:Your "Baseball Boom" cover (Aug. 11) was a thing of immense beauty. I spent an hour studying the amazing cross section of people—men, women and children—united by the common...

The National League East suddenly had itself a race when the bats of the front-running Pirates fell nearly silent, the Phillies closed in almost in spite of themselves and the Cards—on field and...