Evanston Township High School wasn't looking for 5'5", 125-pound football players in the 1950s, or so I told myself. The truth was, I wanted no part of contact, especially the college-level...

John Bouchard and Rick Wilcox are Alpinists who live not in Chamonix or Zermatt but in North Conway, N.H., where only the tallest mountain exceeds 6,000 feet. Such an area might seem to offer slim...

4—Mark Perlstein28, 29—Andy Hayt30, 31—Heinz Kluetmeier (top left), Andy Hayt (3)32, 33—Andy Hayt (2)34, 35—Tony Triolo (top), Paul Kennedy36—Peter Read Miller37, 38, 41—Carl Iwasaki68—AP80,...

MARK DEVEYBETHLEHEM, PA.Mark, a senior at Moravian Academy, scored eight goals and assisted on another in the Moravian soccer team's 9-1 win over Saddle River Country Day. The center striker has...

PRO BASKETBALL—The Spurs' first victim was Pacific Division-leading Phoenix, fresh off its eighth straight win, 109-108 over Indiana. With James Silas scoring 30 points, including the 10,000th of...

FRONT-RUNNERSSir:Kenny Moore's coverage of this year's New York Marathon (There Are Only 26 Miles to Go, Nov. 3) was, in my view, second to none. He not only described the progress of the...

John G. Mitchell's The Hunt (Knopf, $11.95) is a thorough, sensible and dispassionate discussion of a subject—hunting—that tends to leave a great many people foaming at the mouth. Its author is a...

An idea that has struck a number of modern entrepreneurs is this: if people like A and people like B, then people will love A and B together. Any enterprise that combines pleasures, like roller...

MAKING SENSE OF THE MANDATE

•Gerry Cheevers, goaltender-turned-coach of the Boston Bruins, who are off to a 3-9-1 start: "Hockey was my life. This could be death after life."

Losing to Florida, Georgia came back to win on a 93-yard miracle pass play to Lindsay Scott (below) to move on top of the polls

Battling back for another crack at the national championship, two former No. 1 teams, Alabama and Notre Dame, square off. Bear Bryant has 304 victories, but not one has come against the Irish. Can...

The Flyers' brawling style—an old story in Philadelphia—is again arousing outrage. That the team wins compounds its victims' frustrations

After a nightmarish season of personal and physical reverses, David Thompson of the Nuggets is now his old soaring and scoring self

Terry Todd, whose story on Houston Oiler Guard Bob Young begins on page 48, says the 285-pound Young reminds him of Vasily Alexeyev, the renowned Soviet weightlifter. "They're similar in...

It is a matter of record that in 1938 a Chinese named Kho Sin Kie reached the fourth round at Wimbledon, losing to one Franz Cejnar of Czechoslovakia. With that exception, China hasn't made a...

All-Pro at 38, Houston's Bob Young reigns as the NFL's elder weightsman

What of the weight program Bob Young—at 6'1", 285 pounds one of the most massively proportioned players in the NFL—used to gird those slackening loins? How does it differ, if at all, from the...

Georgia's clearly the nation's top team now, but who's ahead for bottom honors? It's a tough choice from among a field of losers who have fallen as badly as 105-0

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OFFENSE: Dave Wilson of Illinois set an NCAA mark by passing for 621 yards and had a Big Ten-record six TDs during a 49-42 loss to Ohio State. He also equaled NCAA records with 43 completions in...

Fear of flying has put the one-man show of ex-Coach John Madden on the rails

It was a cold spell in early January, and my wife, Hilde, and I had decided to make use of the full moon to take a late-night cross-country ski tour. The drive up through the Cascade Mountains on...

A series of questionable player deals by the Cleveland Cavaliers has brought the NBA in to monitor the club's operations

Two Czech stars got on the phone to Quebec, and came in from the cold

Golf champ Mohammed Ahmed isn't the only athlete hitting it big out on the Arabian desert. Oil funds lavish facilities for sports from falconry to ice hockey