May 28, 1973 | Volume 38, Issue 21

PRO BASKETBALL—NBA sportswriters and broadcasters overwhelmingly chose NATE ARCHIBALD of the Kansas City-Omaha Kings to head the NBA All-Star starting five. Joining the 6'1" guard are JOHN...

20, 21—Heinz Kluetmeier22, 23—Lane Stewart24, 25—Jerry Cooke26—Jerry Cooke (3), Neil Leifer (6)28, 29—Herb Scharfman (2), Leviton-Atlanta42—John D. Hanlon54—AP64—Heinz Kluetmeier77—Bob East84—John...

Mark Bosman, 16, of Lynden, Wash., took first place in the Theresa Tromp Chess Tournament and one of the highest cash prizes awarded to young people—$1,000. Bosman beat six challengers. He also...

Sirs:Come on now. With Secretariat winning the Kentucky Derby in record time, the Knicks defeating the Lakers and Ernie D. having a shoot-out with the Russians, where did you find the guts to make...

THE WAY THE BALL BOUNCES

•Gene Mauch, Montreal Expos manager, on a suggestion that maybe his team was lucky to come from behind twice in a row to beat the Cincinnati Reds: "Yeah, we're lucky. It's just like Tim McCarver...

Biscayne's waters shivered to the opening of the unlimited-hydroplane racing season as a new winged marauder called 'Pay 'n Pak' awed and eventually overcame Bill Muncey, the suffering 1972 champion

It looked like a bucket of well-thinned blood sitting at waterside on the straw-covered beach. Coach Dick Erickson of the University of Washington drew a cupful and sipped with mock horror before...

In a mood to rout any opposition, Secretariat rolled around the field to win a memorable Preakness. At his next stop, a crown awaits

No people, it seems, are as determined to have fun as Americans. The things a people do tell much about their times; consider the vanity and resolution of old architecture or the frigid, sterile...

NO ONE WOULD EVER MISTAKE THE BRICKYARD FOR MONACO. NEVER! AND WHO COULD CONFUSE GASOLINE ALLEY WITH THE STAGING AREA AT FRANCORCHAMPS? HORRORS! THERE IS ONLY ONE INDY AND THAT IS THE OLD SPEEDWAY...

Knuckleball is the game Chicago's Wilbur Wood and a doughty band of co-conspirators play with opposing batsmen. Ron Fimrite tells how Wilbur and the gang do it.

This may not clear up Watergate, but in the politicians' division of the Annual World Championship Cow Chip Throwing Contest, held at Beaver, Okla., Governor David Hall threw out the first...

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Chicago has always had an instinct for a death rattle and its citizens have learned to make the most of it; the people found floating down the Chicago River with a lily on the chest and a hole in...

AL EAST

When artist Bob Peak was commissioned by SI to draw a comic strip with a story line built around the Indianapolis 500, he shifted gears between eagerness and apprehension. Although Peak had...

Jai alai players come in a variety of shapes, but almost always they are Basques—dark-haired, dark-eyed people who are neither French nor Spanish, their roots sunk deep in the Pyrenees mountains...

Just about the time I was learning to play bridge at McGill University (I was virtually shamed into studying the game after making a poor showing in my first rubber with a group of coeds), a...

UCLA won the Pac-8 meet and Steve Prefontaine ended his college career at Eugene, Ore. with home folks cheering and a love affair intact

John Chapman was puzzled. The little Canadian trainer-driver knew he had the best horse in last Saturday night's $122,732 Messenger Stakes at Roosevelt Raceway. The trouble was, he did not know...

It is argued that sports are bad for a woman's health and femininity, that she is not sufficiently skilled or interested to deserve expensive athletic programs of her own. So why spend the money?...

One thing about The Fancy by An Operator (Imprint Society, Barre, Mass., $40): the leather in which it is bound is so nice that the book must smell better than anything else ever printed about...

In 1926, with a scandal threatening, Kenesaw Mountain Landis tried to force Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker to retire