Chuck Connors

Role Models

•Leon Wood, New Jersey Nets guard, introducing himself to the team's TV commentator, Steve Albert: "Are you any relation to your brother Marv?"

New York's Mayor John Lindsay walks, bicycles, boxes and plays tennis, baseball and football with his constituents, all with a considerable degree of at least political success. Last week another politician who tried...

Los Angeles Ram Fullback Dick Bass, who is a bail bondsman during the off season, sometimes hires private eyes to track down errant clients. The most satisfactory of these detectives, says Bass, was one called Deputy...

•Sonny Liston, on Floyd Patterson's chances against him: "He won't last five rounds. I want to have more time to talk to the sportswriters. I have to be home at a certain time and I can't go 15 rounds and talk to the...