Colman McCarthy is an editorial writer and columnist for The Washington Post who is deservedly respected as a defender of good and noble causes, not all of them popular. Although less well known...

A season of big numbers was highlighted by dazzling shopping and bopping sprees. Fourteen free agents signed contracts worth $1 million or more, topped by the five-year, $2.9-million deal that...

To satisfy the Japanese demand for raw tuna, a detective story writer has created a farm in Nova Scotia where 1,000-pound gamefish are fattened for slaughter

At Watkins Glen, Niki Lauda regained his championship but bolted Ferrari

Focusing on his receivers, Bob Griese has Miami eyeing another Super Bowl

Trying to boost their sport into the big time, organizers of the American Jumping Derby offered a $73,000 purse and got Linda Blair to award the blue ribbon

No, not Joltin' Joe but George Steinbrenner, who has put the Yanks back in trim from head to hose. It hasn't been clear sailing; he's been buffeted by his manager, his players and the feds

BOATING—JOEL HALPERN won the 1977 National Offshore Powerboat championship for the second straight year by virtue of a second-place finish in the Marina del Rey, Calif. race.

16—Drawings by SQW20, 21—James Drake22, 23—Neil Leifer24—Hank deLespinasse26, 27—Eric Schweikardt (left), John McDermott (3)44, 45—Eric Schweikardt60—John Kenney98—courtesy NBC103—Dan...

PENNY DEANSANTA CLARA, CALIF.Dean, 22, a first-year student at Loyola University Law School at San Francisco, swam the 42 miles from Santa Catalina Island to the California mainland and back,...

STRONGHOLDSSir:I could really relate to Ron Fimrite's article They're Beginning To Sound Like a Broken Record (Sept. 26). I have been to 22 Dodger home games this season, each time taking an...

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•J.B. Pinheiro, Brazilian ambassador to the U.N., in praise of Pelé: "My country has been built on mistakes. Pedro Cabral was looking for a passage to India when he discovered Brazil. Our entire...

Muhammad Ali left them roaring with a marvelous last-round rally against game Earnie Shavers, but one day soon the champ will reach down and come up empty

The legendary Brazilian retired again, this time before a crowd whose size was both a tribute to him and a part of his legacy

Suspended for recruiting violations, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Basketball Coach Jerry Tarkanian went to court and won reinstatement in a decision so severely critical of the NCAA that its...

Michigan led Texas A&M 7-3 after two quarters. Then the Wolverines scored five touchdowns, four as a result of turnovers and a blocked punt

Not to mention the fearless Slats Cabbage, the Ruggerfesters and just about everybody. Aspen is where sporting folks have found the Mountain of Youth

Let your kids take a mighty cut—and even cut up a bit by themselves—and the chances are they will soon be eager to be golfers

Minnesota is split, Congressmen from the same party are pushing opposing bills, tempers are erupting—over what is best for a matchless million acres

New York's Monsignor Farrell went all the way to Cincinnati for the experience of meeting the No. 1 high school team, and Moeller made it all too unforgettable

Senior Writer William O. Johnson, whose article about the controversy surrounding Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area begins on page 50, has a special and long-term interest in that great...

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OFFENSE: Brigham Young Quarterback Gifford Nielsen, the NCAA passing leader, completed 83% of his passes for 273 yards and five touchdowns in BYU's 54-19 rout of New Mexico. He has yet to throw an...

"Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth." The day was July 4, 1939 and Lou Gehrig, the...

Percy Bysshe Shelley certainly was a great poet, but he obviously knew from nothing about baseball:

Danny Cohen had the inside dope. Danny worked in the ticket sales office at Comiskey Park and back in February was one of the first to find out that the White Sox were going to hold a free-agent...