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Hot toes haven't made the six-point play obsolete, but in the NFL they are booting more field goals and scoring fewer touchdowns. Tex Maule feels the fans have a kick coming.

The new kids of the National Hockey League are out on the rinks in record numbers—and at record salaries. A gallery of the best, with a close look at the NHL's No. 1 pick.

Three bull elk crash the early-morning quiet in panicky flight across a ridge on the Bitterroot Mountains. One dies there in the new snow. Robert F. Jones describes the hunt.