January 10, 1966 | Volume 24, Issue 2

NEW YEAR'S LONG SHOTThe extraordinary events of New Year's Day, when the three top-ranked college teams, all undefeated, went down one after the other, raised the question of how much a fan might...

•Bill Van Breda Kolff, who coached Bill Bradley at Princeton last year, asked to appraise the star player on an opposing team: "I guess I don't think anybody is good now. Maybe Bradley spoiled me."

The man made famous by a colt named Carry Back is now enrolling Thoroughbred students at his unique school in Florida, where the main campus is a training track but tuition ain't hay

Arnold Palmer sets out to regain his lost eminence, millions of dollars are at stake and a year of big changes portends as the 1966 pro golf tour gets under way in Los Angeles.

It had been a crazy season of upsets anyhow, so it was only appropriate that the New Year's Day bowl games should have a kind of crazy logic of their own. Three perfect-record teams, Michigan...

As shown by the list of names to your right, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is served by a variety of staff writers, writer-reporters, reporters, special contributors and special correspondents. At the end of...

It was the risk a museum takes when it permits a favorite masterpiece to be loaned out to a traveling exhibition: Willie Mays, stumping the West on behalf of the Job Corps (at the request, it was...

Spain's Manuel Santana won his duel with Roy Emerson, but the Aussies had taken the Davis Cup

Conference races have barely begun, yet there remain just two undefeated teams in the country, Kentucky and Texas Western. Since most of the major preconference games are intersectionals, this...

BASKETBALL—BOSTON (25-10), after three wins and two losses, held a 2½-game lead in the Eastern Division. The Celtics opened the week with a loss to the 76ers and then edged the Knicks 99-96 and...

4—Rich Clarkson15—Walter Iooss Jr.16—Neil Leifer18—Neil Leifer, Herb Scharfman, Neil Leifer19—Walter Iooss Jr.20-23—Herb Scharfman28—Benny Agosto29, 31—Roy De Carava33-35—Sheedy & Long36,...

J. Jerome Miller, 52, of Highland Park, Ill., a member of the U.S. Olympic water polo teams in 1936 and 1948, broke the Chicago Athletic Association's record (the nation's best) for miles swum in...

NONSPORTSMANSirs:I hope John Steinbeck never attempts to write an article on sports, for it would be impossible to improve upon the excellence of his letter on why he can't (Then My Arm Glassed...