In a racing world gone slightly mad, the Aga Khan was offered that amount for his superhorse, Shergar, but disdained it, and an English plunger, Robert Sangster, paid $3.5 million for a...

As the yearling sale opened last week in the crowded pavilion at Keeneland Race Course, here was Stavros Niarchos, the Greek shipping magnate whose wealth is reputed to be almost as great as that...

Back in the 1940s, when the value of thoroughbreds began to rise significantly, the more astute breeders in Kentucky began to look for ways to spread the expense—and the risk—of owning stallions....

If Heisman winner George Rogers turns out anything like Earl, he'll be sainted in New Orleans

Finding water that's not moving, holding on to it, using it—no one does this better than Tracy Caulkins, the finest woman swimmer

When the above picture was taken 25 years ago, Paul Zimmerman, then playing for the Western Area Command Rhinos, was recovering from the third of four broken noses he sustained during an...

Joltin' Jeff Chandler had that—plus a powerful follow-up right cross—in knocking out challenger Julian Solis and retaining the WBA bantamweight championship

As Pat Bradley took the Women's Open, Kathy Whitworth went over $1 million

At least not on the football field, where, says the author, his brains, brawn and speed have made him the top offensive lineman in NFL history

Two dozen NFL old-timers were asked to name their candidates for "best ever" offensive linemen, and these are the ones that kept coming up, the products of serious reflection as well as fleeting...

"As far as we know," says Rusty Magee, the young composer of 1919: A Baseball Opera, "there has never before been an opera or a ballet or anything theatrical based on the Black Sox scandal, which...

The blackfly is a wonderfully misanthropic insect that keeps the Adirondacks from being infested with tourists during June and, to a lesser degree, August. Among those who don't like the little...

12, 13—Steve Powell14, 15—Robert Martin-All Sport (bottom left), Steve Powell (3)16—E.G. Byrne17—Bill Straus18—Tony Leonard19—Bill Straus28—Richard Mackson (bottom)40, 41—Jerry Wachter42—George...

BOWLING—MIKE AULBY defeated Gil Sliker 205-202 in Windsor, Ontario, to win the $100,000 Canadian Open.

MITCH HAWLEYHAYWARD, CALIF.Hawley, 21, made a record 101 pitching appearances during his career at the University of California, shattering the previous NCAA mark of 83. The righthanded reliever...

DEFINING ARNIESir:We knew Arnold Palmer would come back (Win or Lose, Arnie Draws, July 20), and how sweet it is! The long dry spell is over, and the familiar sight of Arnie hitching up his...

Memo to Simon and Garfunkel: Joe DiMaggio has left and gone away to 2150 Beach Street in San Francisco. Take heart, Philadelphia Phillies. Yours wasn't the only baseball death in late September...

IS THIS TOUR NECESSARY?

•David Larner, a spokesman for Lloyd's of London, which underwrote most of the $50 million strike insurance purchased by the major league owners: "Baseball? Rather like rounders, isn't it? Never...