Floyd Patterson

'LET ME CALL YOU SWEETHEART'...

Swaps, stretching his unbeaten string to eight—seven as a 3-year-old—and his earnings to $349,900 (Nashua has won $690,000) came within 4/5 second of the Hollywood Park track record for 1¼ miles in winning the...

In the issue of November 1, 1954, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED reported a boxing match between Johnny Saxton and Kid Gavilan so unsavory and so sadly representative of the low estate to which boxing had fallen that it seemed...

Sirs: Your issue of February 6 has really done it. From cover to cover, you have performed a service in telling us what sports are all about. The article about Avery Brundage was the spearhead. No half-baked excuses...