I first became a serious Muhammad Ali watcher in late 1963. I'm still watching him and now I hear that he's going to try to make a comeback. When he was almost 39, he thought he could beat Larry...

From the opening of the chute to the instant I get bucked off the horse is 23 frames on the 8-mm. film. It's another 13 frames before I hit the ground, and getting up requires 49 more. In all, the...

4—Andrew D. Bernstein28—Walter Iooss Jr.29—John Iacono30, 31—Manny Millan (top left), John Iacono (bottom right), Heinz Kleutmeier (3)32, 33—Ronald C. Modra34, 35—Tony Tomsic (bottom right),...

BASEBALL—The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees in the World Series, four games to two (page 28).

ANTONIO MANNINGLOS ANGELESAntonio, 16, a sprinter for the Los Angeles Jets track club, ran the 100-meter dash in 10.6 and the 200 in 21.2 to set two national intermediate-division records at The...

MIGHTY RAMSir:Thank you for Rick Telander's article on Nolan Cromwell (Best NFL Athlete? Nolan Contendere, Oct. 26). It's about time somebody recognized the great Ram free safety. He is, for sure,...

SIR SLUR

•William Perry, the Clemson football team's 6'3", 305-pound freshman middle guard, talking about his childhood: "When I was little, I was big."

Philadelphia was flying high until Dallas came in and shot down the Eagles in the quarter that counted

For some Dodgers, there may not be much time left to enjoy their World Series victory over New York

Penn State was the latest to tumble, but considering Miami's improving stature, it was only barely an upset

What are Norm Nixon, Mitch Kupchak, Michael Cooper, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jamaal Wilkes and Magic Johnson doing in a classroom with Laker Coach Paul Westhead? Hitting the blackboards, just like the...

Staff Photographer Lane Stewart lives in a Manhattan apartment with his wife, Anna, and, among other things, an 80-pound terra-cotta turkey, an ancient printing press, a two-foot whalebone walrus,...

Kevin McHale (far left) and the skying Robert Parish are Boston's biggies, as are Los Angeles' Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Mitch Kupchak.

Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying.

There are a lot of questions in the Central Division: Are three trees better than one in Chicago? Will Tree or any of the twigs be healthy in Atlanta? Can money buy love in Cleveland? Will a child...

Flipping the dial for some late-night TV last May, you may have caught the HOUSTON ROCKETS. Featuring a few Irish surnames—Malone, Murphy, Dunleavy and Willoughby—and under the direction of a dead...

Seismologists say that this could be the year of the big quake in Southern California, but if the LOS ANGELES LAKERS don't rumble in 1982, the fault will lie not in the ground but in their stars....

Erk Russell, creator of Georgia's Junkyard Dogs, is building a whole new team

SOUTHWEST

OFFENSE: Greg Allen scored on a 95-yard kickoff return and set two NCAA records as Florida State beat Western Carolina: 322 yards rushing, a freshman mark, and 417 yards in all-purpose running.

U.S. schoolboy whiz Bobby Carpenter is yielding high returns in Washington

Penn State's Candy Finn sticks out in both field hockey and lacrosse

Where have you gone, Pete Gogolak? It seems that the innovation you brought to the attention of the country in 1964—kicking a football soccer-style right there on national television—has carried...

Larry Bird was blessed with his height, but lots of work made him the NBA's most complete player since Oscar Robertson

It began as an ice skating trip to a high lake in the Cascades in southern Oregon. But before I had even parked the car, I noticed the ice fishermen, and on the way to the skate-rental shed I...

Charley Rosen isn't your usual college basketball coach. He looks like a 6'8" Mitch Miller, holds a master's in medieval studies and has a son named Darrell Marlowe, after a basketball player and...

Some American basketball players from the Bob Cousy-George Mikan-Bob Pettit era have been immortalized in a French church—and they aren't even aware of it. Neither, as far as I know, is anyone else.