Rebelling against the somewhat mechanical sports of trap and skeet, a Long Island enthusiast has designed his own diabolical clay-target game, combining the frustrations—and the rewards—of bird...

Lonely no longer, four of the world's best distance men race in Los Angeles. Gwilym Brown reports on the meet and Kip Keino's latest go-round of the season in indoor track.

Your true sports lover has a stock of instant physical associations—sights, sounds and smells—that are evoked the moment you mention his game. "Football," you say to an Englishman, and instantly...

Just as parents do, we have found over the years that we spend considerable time child watching. We appreciate that the child is the father of the man and all such youth-rearing aphorisms, but we...

The City Council's welcome-home resolution was nice, all right: Arthur Ashe was to be commended for his outstanding achievements in tennis, and all Richmond should be proud of the fine record of...

Thwarted twice by UCLA in tournament play, San Francisco's seniors and their ailing coach anticipate a different finish to their careers

Bridge tournament reporting usually emphasizes the brilliant coups of the best players, leaving forever unpublicized their not-so-stimulating errors and the stumblings of their opponents. But you...

CONFIDENCEAfter five full seasons in Minneapolis-St. Paul, the stockholders of the corporation known as Washington American League Baseball Club, Inc. have tossed caution to the winds and have...

•Harvey Murphy, basketball coach at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, after six of his 11 basketball players became academically ineligible: "This is bad for team morale."

The 50-yard pitch shot is a consternation causer for the weekend golfer. At address he wonders, "Should I take a long, free backswing and float the ball up there?" He decides to, and about halfway...

BASKETBALL—NBA: BOSTON (37-18) scrambled to a two-game lead in the Eastern Division with three wins and two losses, while CINCINNATI (35-20), briefly in first place only a week earlier, dipped all...

4—Jim McLemore-Austin America Statesman, R. Walter Johnson14-17—Herb Scharfman19—Neil Leifer20—Tony Triolo50—Freire, Floyd B. Bowser53, 54—Sheedy & Long64-71—Lynn Pelham from...

Don Peterson, 14, of Kendallville, Ind., set a Canadian age-group record with a 29.8 victory in the 50-meter butterfly at a U.S.-Canada meet in Toronto. Peterson also won the 200-meter freestyle...

While the defending national champion, UCLA, was having a desperate time in its own conference, the leading pretender, Kentucky, was still unbeaten after silencing the strongest rival in its...

TO THE RESCUESirs:The Westport Striped Bass Club of Westport, Conn. wishes to express its thanks and appreciation to SI for the interest and leadership it has shown in connection with the threat...

For thousands of years man has been aware that warmth and protection from winter winds could be attained by turning a sheepskin inside out. However, the use of sheepskin in a fashionable wardrobe...

Joe Louis' generosity shocked the mob. His punches shocked a Baer