October 08, 1979 | Volume 51, Issue 15

In collaboration with Taylor Branch, Bill Russell has written an autobiography that goes well beyond the customary bounds of the as-told-to sports story. It's called Second Wind: The Memoirs of an...

The train pulls away from the station and follows the river up the terraced valley into a gorge in the Alaska Range. After it passes out of sight, I look at the wide gravel flats below the depot...

My suspicion that the national obsession with physical fitness has gone too far was confirmed the other evening when I saw a middle-aged man disengage himself from his Perrier water and start...

6—Evelyn Floret30—Heinz Kluetmeier, Enrico Ferorelli31—Heinz Kluetmeier32—Walter Iooss Jr.33—Heinz Kluetmeier34—Heinz Kluetmeier (top), Walter Iooss Jr.38—John Iacono40—Neil Leifer42—Tony...

SCOTT DAVISSANTA MONICA, CALIF.Scott, 17, who has won six U.S. Tennis Association national 18-and-under titles in the last 10 months, defeated Jan Gunnarson of Sweden 6-3, 6-1 to win the junior...

BOXING—Unbeaten LARRY HOLMES stopped Earnie Shavers in the 11th round to retain the WBC heavyweight title in Las Vegas. In the other title bout on the card, WBC super-bantamweight champion...

NO. 39Sir:Congratulations to Sarah Pileggi and SI for the balanced and sympathetic treatment of President Carter's road-racing effort in the 10-kilometer Catoctin Mountain Park Run (Jimmy Carter...

Jousting was invented by a 10th-century Saxon king named Henry the Fowler. It was a bloody business until about the 15th century, when guns came into common use and turned jousting from a military...

The Baseball Encyclopedia, as thorough as it is, somehow left out a number of great names from the past, men like Gaylord Tennyson, Daffy Carroll and Whitey Whitman. These oversights have been...

BASEBALL'S ENDURING COLOR LINE

•Monte Clark. Detroit Lion coach, on Larry Csonka: "When he goes on safari, the lions roll up their windows."

And how sweet it was for Larry, who in dismantling Earnie Shavers not only retained his heavyweight title but also restored his tarnished reputation

For two seasons it had been smooth sailing for the Yankees, Royals, Dodgers and Phillies, but this year each of them was lost at sea

Rookies Jerry Butler and Jim Haslett have performed so well that Buffalonians have forgotten Tom Cousineau's defection to Montreal

About the nicest thing that can be said of the forthcoming NHL season is that the merger with the havoc-wreaking WHA is a . Four survivors of the WHA—Winnipeg, Edmonton, Quebec and Hartford—are...

FINAL FOUR

Pro basketball tips off a season that promises something old, something new, something borrowed and somethin' else. The newcomers are Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, whom Douglas S. Looney calls the...

Paul Zimmerman has been with SPORTS ILLUSTRATED only two months, but the 46-year-old former semi-pro tackle, 6'2", 230 pounds and still growing, has already made a hefty impression. His story on...

It's the middle of the day in Baltimore and a frenetic disc-jockey voice breaks into the WFBR programming at the end of a rock 'n' roll golden oldie and says, "We're proud to be part of Oriole...

Coach Chuck Fairbanks had a litigious time getting to Colorado from New England and then suffered through three straight losses before his Buffaloes upset Indiana

MIDWEST

OFFENSE: Dennis Mosley, a 179-pound senior tailback for Iowa, set a school mark by carrying 39 times. He rushed for 229 yards, scoring twice on runs and once on a nine-yard pass as the Hawkeyes...

A record 43 million took themselves out to the ball game in what could be called the year of the hitter—or the rabbit ball. Home runs were up 18%, there was an average of nine runs a game, highest...

Pro Bowl Defensive End John Dutton is forking hay in Nebraska, not sacking quarterbacks in Baltimore, while his agent seeks a team willing to meet his price

Lon Hinkle's route to victory in the World Series of Golf included a shot that hit both the pond and the green